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The authors suggest that railroads were the primary source of public accounting talent in the early United States Accounting Profession. Many have argued that the early public accountants came from Great Britain, but they composed only a small proportion of the early public accountants; railroads provided a more common background for public accountants in the 1890s through 1920.
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The article adds a new paradigm as to the early history of public accountancy in America.
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This page is a summary of: Working on the Railroad: Public Accounting Talent in the United States-The Case of Haskins & Sells (Now Deloitte), Abacus, January 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/abac.12099.
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