International Accounting History Symposium;Comite International des historians de la comptabilite
During the period October 8-12, 1970, representatives of nearly twenty national accounting groups met in Brussels for the First International Congress of Accounting Historians.
Rubber industry and trade -- Bolivia;Plantations -- Bolivia;l'Anson, Henri
In January, 1900, Henry I'Anson applied, successfully, for the position of accountant at a rubber plantation in Bolivia. He and his wife journeyed there by steamship, steam launch, and canoe, to find a less than hospitable welcome. I'Anson's...
The article draws attention to the vast archive of accounting records from ancient Mesopotamia available to historians, and the advances in Assyriology which have taken place since the revival of interest in the origins of recorded history....
Accounting -- Examinations, Questions, etc. -- History;Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales -- History
Abstract: This study considers the final examinations of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, from 1882-1981. Discussion of the likely purposes of the examinations, and of possible ways of assessing their efficiency, is...
Accounting -- Study and teaching;Accounting -- History
A feature of the history of accounting thought is the existence of contending theories of accounts in continental Europe. Four schools of accounting thought developed and are here briefly examined.
Iranian village accounting, which we studied by translating and analyzing the records of a trading house in the early twentieth century, was relatively unaffected by Western contact. The records were kept on a slightly modified cash basis,...
Books -- Conservation and repair;Manuscripts -- Conservation and repair
The accounting historian's part in the wider preservation (i.e., keeping of old documents) is to conduct a campaign to persuade people?? this include librarians who are forced to prune their stocks of material through lack of space?? to destroy old...
