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British Library of Political and Economic Science

LEAKE, Percy Dewe, d 1949, accountant

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0097 LEAKE

Held at: British Library of Political and Economic Science

Title: LEAKE, Percy Dewe, d 1949, accountant

Date(s): 1909-1947

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 14 boxes

Name of creator(s): Leake | Percy Dewe | d 1949 | accountant

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Chartered accountant and founder and senior partner of P. D. Leake & Co; has written and lectured extensively on accountancy subjects; was retained by the Postmaster General and gave evidence in the well-known case of The National Telephone Co. Ltd v. HM Postmaster-General; funded the PD Leake Trust which financed much of the academic research programme of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales; has visited USA and Canada and studied their methods of cost accounting; Member of the Board of Trustees, Albany, Piccadilly, W1; died 1949. Publications: Balance sheet values (Gee and Co, London, 1929); Capital: Adam Smith, Karl Marx (Gee and Co, London, 1933); Commercial goodwill (Pitman and Sons, London, 1921); Depreciation and wasting assets (Henry Good and Son, London 1912); Industrial capital (Gee and Co, London, 1933); Inflated Industrial Share Capital: a plea for the use of no par value shares (Gee & Co, London, 1936); Introductory notes on Leake's Register of Industrial Plant (Henry Good & Son, London, 1910); The Corporation Profits Tax explained and illustrated (Pitman & Sons, London, 1920); Income Tax on Capital: a plea for reform in the official method of computing taxable profits (Gee & Co, London, 1909).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Percy Dewe Leake, 1909-1947, mainly comprising publications and working papers relating to British accounting theory and practice, notably capital, taxation, and industrial accounting.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The papers are arranged in files created by Leake.

Conditions governing access:

Closed until listed.

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Copyright unknown.

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Box list available.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

The papers were transferred from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (following the death of Percy Leake) to the keeping of Professor Sir (John) Richard (Nicholas) Stone, PD Leake Professor of Finance and Accounting at Cambridge University. Following Stone's death in 1991, the papers passed to Professor Geoffrey Whittington, Price Waterhouse Professor of Financial Accounting at Cambridge, who gave them to the British Library of Political and Economic Science in 1998.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Sources: Who's Who 1897-1996 (A & C Black, 1996); British Library On-Line Public Access Catalogue 97. Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.