Has the accounting services industry ever been disrupted in the U.S.?
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The 1929 stock market crash (and the excesses, bordering on illegality that led to it) led to the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934, following the onset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission
There were Congressional acts, those of 1933 and 1934 that changed the way that companies accounted for, and more importantly reported their financial results. The Act of 1933 dealt mainly with beefed up reporting requirements. The Act of 1934 established the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to enforce the 1933 Act. It also gave the SEC to regulate the offering and sale of securities such as stocks and bonds. As such, the oversight of the SEC greatly reduced (although it did not totally eliminate) a number of "shady" practices perpetrated by companies and stock brokers on unsuspecting investors. As such, 1933-34 represents a watershed for corporate accounting to investors.
The reduction of the "Big 8" accounting firms to the "Big 4," culminating in the collapse of Arthur Andersen (earlier the fifth) in 2002, due to the Enron scandal, may have been the harbinger of the new 1930s. It created a shortage of "large" accounting behemouths, but contributed to the rise of a group of smaller, hopefully more effective accounting firms.
One book (written by yours truly) that discusses the original 1929 stock market crash, the 1930s Depression, and the possibility of a new crash (like the one that took place in 2008), and a possible return to the modern 1930s is http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Approach-Graham-Investing-Finance/dp/0471584150/
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The mass internal accounting structures which developed with modern firms in the 1930s and 1940s disrupted small manufacture, and radically changed the pool of accounting profession and labour opportunities. So "the firm" as in the modern firm in Fordism, including its corresponding departmental structure in government, caused a rupture in the supply of accountancy services—but this happened under an increasing market for accounting services and was tied with increasing personal accounting complexity.
Similarly with the development of outsourced accounting specialist firms since the change in Fordism in the 1970s. ( http://www.ey.com/GL/en/About-us/Our-people-and-culture/Our-history/About-EY---Key-Facts-and-Figures---History---Timeline )
Accountancy as a professional service is tied into firm and state-as-capitalist structures.
Accounting history is a specialist sub-area, normally supervised under academic accounting. It is both quite productive, and quite exciting as a discipline, it deals with the formal subsumption of value: how production gets turned into profits.
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