ICloud Calendar Sharing

Hello,
I have a couple questions regarding Calendar sharing through iCloud. My scenario is as follows:
I am the IT for a small business and I am trying to get iCloud to help out our scheduling deficencies. In our business we have many schedulings per day and we have multiple people editing/adding/changing the calendar. Right now we have more then one calendar with an attempt to consolidate to one main calendar. The problem is obvious with this scenario, we end up loosing track of what has been changed or someone forgets to add or adjust the MAIN calendar.
Now from what I understand there is a way to share a single calendar across multiple devices/iCloud accounts. Is this true?
How do you share the calendar across different accounts?
Also what do you think the best way to setup the devices? When sharing the calendar across accounts does it mark who added or edited a scheduling ie. by color coding or by iCloud ID? Should I just create one iCloud account and share that across all the different devices owned by the company? Or should I create multiple accounts for each device and share the calendar across the multiple different devices?
I think the multiple different iCloud account would be beneficial solely for the fact of knowing who made the edit or addition (if it does indeed do that some how).
Can you make an iCloud account without having an iCloud device?
Any help will be appreaciated!
Thanks,
Jm

Hi jm6001!
1) Login to https://www.icloud.com/ and then open the calendar.
2) Click in the top bar on the "Show calendars"-button. Now you can see all your calendars on the left side.
3) Beside every calendar is a "Share Calendar"-Symbol in a small circle.
4) Click on this button and you can invite other iCloud-members to view or edit this calendar.
(Please excuse my meager English.)

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http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mm6b1a8694 say's:
Sharing works as follows:
Public calendars can be shared with anyone. To access public calendars, visitors need to use Calendar (or iCal with OS X v10.7.5) on a Mac, Microsoft Outlook on a Windows computer, or any other app that supports the iCalendar file format.
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Referencing iCloud: Calendar sharing overview
If the other shares their iCloud calendar as public, you can add it to your Calendar without using iCloud, but you can only view it, no edits.
So here the answer is Yes.
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Click on the link to see more details.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ph2690
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3999
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