... changed throughout the period and whether the BSAC's share price reflected the shareholder sentiment. Findings The BSAC's general meetings were associated with the greater colonial project of building the British Empire. The authors find almost 1,500 incidents of shareholder sentiment. Directors...

...Nicole Sutton Purpose This paper considers how archival accounting records may support truth-telling about past atrocities during Australia's frontier wars. Design/methodology/approach The study examines two colonial accounting records – military muster payrolls and the ledger statements...

... colonialism. Originality/value This accounting history study contributes to an understanding of corporate narrative reporting using one of the earliest known cases of such analysis and shows how accounting plays a central role in facilitating a company in sustaining its interests. This 100-year lookback...