Accounting systems and decision-making in the mid-Victorian period: the case of the Consett Iron Company

Boyns, Trevor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8056-8832 and Edwards, John Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1526-8523 1995. Accounting systems and decision-making in the mid-Victorian period: the case of the Consett Iron Company. Business History 37 (3) , pp. 28-51. 10.1080/00076799500000089

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Abstract

This paper utilises previously examined costing material for the Consett Iron Company Ltd in an attempt to throw some light on how business in the mid-Victorian period made key decisions. The nature of the costing information available to management, its limitations for decision-making purposes, and how the costing system was developed in response to the problems facing the company in the late 1860s, are examined. It is concluded that the company adapted its costing system perceptively to cope with real problems, though the changes introduced may not always have been ideal as seen from the perspective of modern management accounting.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis
ISSN:	0007-6791
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 09:29
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/58793

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