Review to “História da Contabilidade Portuguesa – o Século XX”, by Miguel Gonçalves, Márcia Simões, Raquel Ferreira and Cristina Góis. Almedina, Coimbra, Portugal 2023

Abstract

Welcome to this book about Portuguese accounting throughout the last century. It is not a History of Accounting in Portugal in the 20th Century, but rather a “chronological repository” of the “most significant milestones” of that period, in order to pay homage to Joaquim Fernando da Cunha Guimarães (1958-2012) who, in his works, often resorted to chronological tables. However, as you will see, it is not a simple chronology. It is much more than that.