Accounting historians notebook, 2010, Vol. 33, no. 1 (April)

              The Accounting Historians Notebook, April 2010 1
Vol. 33, No. 1 © Academy of Accounting Historians April 2010
The Accounting
Historians Notebook
A colleague nearing retirement in
an adjacent office began the pro-tracted
process of slowly purging
materials from his on-campus re-pository
of many years. His col-lection
of accounting literature
included a copy of the 1956
American Accounting Association
booklet, Index to The Accounting
Review: 1951-1955. Aware of our
interest in accounting history, he
presented the document to us.
Part I of the publication
consists of a Subject Matter Index
of The Accounting Review for
volumes XXVI to XXX covering
the five years of 1951 to 1955. On
page 11, the category History re-flects
twelve articles on account-ing
history. The topics include:
business income; auditing; public
accounting in the United States
(two articles); fixed assets; cost
control; dates; ratios; accounts;
British mercantile college; history
Accounting History in the Early 1950s
Andrew D. Sharp and Rachel E. Kass
Spring Hill College
of accounting; and managerial ac-counting.
Two of the articles were
published in 1951, one in 1952,
two in 1953, three in 1954, and
four in 1955. The authors include:
H.T. Scovill; C.A. Moyer; James
Don Edwards (two articles); D.A.
Litherland; Paul Crossman; Sister
Isadore Brown; A.C. Littleton
(two articles); Stanley C. Hel-lander;
and Raymond de Roover.
The article on “dates” did not list
a corresponding author.
Exhibit 1, provides a bibli-ography
of accounting history ar-ticles
published in The Account-ing
Review for the years 1951 to
1955. This should be a helpful re-source
for accounting historians in
their research efforts.
The category of History was
bracketed by the categories of
Graduate Courses and Humor.
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