The comprehensive ICAEW Timeline explores events from ancient times through to the first half of the nineteenth century (for detailed events, click on the red titles – for example, 1853 - 1880 and 1968 - 2003. The Timeline shows when accountancy starts to take form as an organized profession, growing primarily as a result of the commercial and legal activity of bankruptcy, insolvency and the winding up of companies all the way to the current day.
