Introduction to Financial Records

Do you know your ledger from your balance sheet? Whether in a corporate collection or local authority archive, financial records crop up in many contexts.

 ARA Scotland is pleased to present this training event on financial records commonly found in archive collections.

• Kiara King will introduce common types of financial records and appraisal considerations for these records.

• Amanda Noble will provide a bank archivist’s perspective on financial records and trace a transaction through the ledgers.

• Dr Kirsten Kininmonth will explore how she uses financial records in her work as a business historian.

Kiara King is the Director and Archivist for the Ballast Trust, a charity that provides a rescue, sorting, and cataloguing service for business archives. She has been a qualified information professional since 2007 and has experience in both the records management and archive sectors. Her role at the Ballast Trust involves advocating for business archive collections, particularly technical records within them. She is also a member of the Business Archives Council of Scotland’s executive committee.

Amanda Noble is a business archivist at Lloyds Banking Group, a leading UK-based financial services company with a heritage dating back over 300 years. Based in Edinburgh, Amanda has nearly 20 years of experience in all aspects of archival management. Amanda is a strong advocate for the development and use of business collections, she is currently convenor of the Business Archives Council of Scotland.

Kirsten Kininmonth is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Senior Advisor of Studies & Programme Director for the PGT Accounting programmes at the University of Glasgow. Her main current research interests relate to both accounting & business history and teaching and learning, including structure and strategy in organisations, evolution of managerial hierarchies, changes over time in accounting and management accounting practices, impact of family involvement in organisations, accounting education, and teaching pedagogy.