This text provides an in-depth review of recent historical research on the emergence and maturation of institutionalized public accountancy in Scotland. This research is important for understanding the profession, and also provides a template for further studies of public accountancy's origins in other countries.

1: Formation Events; 1: Professional Formation: The Case of Scottish Accountants; 2: Professional Formation: The Case of Scottish Accountants - Some Corrections and Some Further Thoughts; 3: Professional Formation: A Reply to Briston and Kedslie; 4: Mutual Self Interest - A Unifying Force; The Dominance of Societal Closure Over Social Background in the Early Professional Accounting Bodies; 5: A Review Essay: Professional Foundations and Theories of Professional Behaviour; 6: The Genesis of Professional Organization in Scotland: A Contextual Analysis; 7: Identifying the Founding Fathers of Public Accountancy: The Formation of The Society of Accountants in Edinburgh; 2: Post Foundation Events; 8: The Defence of Professional Monopoly: Scottish Chartered Accountants and Satellites in the Accountancy Firmament 1854-1914; 9: Scottish Chartered Accountants: Internal and External Political Relationships, 1853-1916; 10: The Influence of the Individual in the Professionalisation of Accountancy: The Case of Richard Brown and The Society of Accountants in Edinburgh, 1892-6; 11: Anatomy of a Scottish CA Practice: Lindsay, Jamieson & Haldane 1818-1918; 12: The Influence of Scottish Accountants in the United States: The Early Case of the Society of Accountants in Edinburgh; 13: The Criminal Upperworld and the Emergence of a Disciplinary Code in the Early Chartered Accountancy Profession; 14: Gender Segregation in Scottish Chartered Accountancy: The Deployment of Male Concerns About the Admission of Women, 1900-1925