Japan is one of the oldest nations in the world and yet one of the "newest." Western bookkeeping methods came in on the top of the native indigenous method which had been firmly established for centuries. Both of these systems developed quite...
Previts and Sheldahl have suggested] that Marshs Science of Double-Entry Book-Keeping, originating in 1830, marked an important early step in a long transition from traditional merchants accounts toward an accounting system better suited to an...
This article outlines the lives and background of the main writers who were active in the 18th century period of ’scottish Ascendancy’ in accounting texts. The impressive publications produced by this group are detailed and the question of why...
Shakers -- Kentucky -- Pleasant Hill;Account books -- History
A desire to be self-sustaining and a dedication to communal property required the Shakers to place great importance on accounting. This importance was underscored by the fact that the spiritual covenants of the Shakers were revised to require...
Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation;Prosopography;Accounting -- History
This study explored the citation of pre-1960 literature in a body of contemporary accounting research. In a database of nearly 11,000 citations from 428 source articles, 117 pre-1960 accounting citations were identified. From the set of 413...
Accountants -- Biography;American Technical Society. Accountancy and Business Management
A list of the forty-six accountants who were authors or consultants for the seven volume encyclopedia--Accountancy and Business Management published by the American Technical Society in 1909.
Titles of announcements include: Working papers inaugurated; Chatfield to speak at 2nd annual meeting; Second annual business meeting of The Academy, August 20th; Academy incorporates; New Orleans reminders; Membership increases; Meeting agenda,...
Books reviewed are: Reflections OF A RenaissanceScholar: Carl Devine's Essays in Accounting Theory, Volumes I-V, Reviewed by Edward Arrington; Hall, William D. Accounting and Auditing: Thoughts on Forty Years in Practice and Education. Authur...
Accounting -- Standards -- History;Accounting -- Study and teaching
Fitzgerald outlines the importance of a report, by Professors T. H. Sanders (Harvard), H. R. Hatfield (University of California) and Underhill Moore (School of Law, Yale University), made at the invitation of the Haskins and Sells Foundation on the...
Wheat -- Prices -- Peru -- History;Bakers and bakeries -- Accounting;Bakers and bakeries -- Peru -- Lima -- History
This article analyzes the information found in the newly discovered account book in the Lima National Archives on bulk wheat prices paid by a centrally located bakery for the nine year period 1812 to June 1821. The conclusion is that the price of...
Corporations -- Taxation -- History;Income tax -- History;Taxation -- History
Taxpayers and taxing jurisdictions are, by definition and motivation, opposing forces and, therefore, in continual conflict. Taxpayers strive to minimize their tax liabilities while taxing jurisdictions seek ways to maximize their tax revenues. The...
Anecdotes -- Accounting;Accounting -- History -- Bibliography
Subtitles are: Book Mart; Contact Notes; Historical Antecedents; Historical Potpourri; History in Print; Out of the Past; Research Notes; Research Resources; Through the Ages
Contemporary Accounting Research;Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation;Accounting -- Research -- Methodology
Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) has expanded substantially in scope over the past two decades. This paper provides an overview of these trends using both quantitative techniques from statistics and exploratory data analysis (EDA). Articles...
Boatbuilding -- Accounting;Boatbuilding -- Costs;Canoes and canoeing -- Costs;Rushton, J. Henry;Cost accounting -- History
J. Henry Rushton was the preeminent American builder of canoes and small pleasure boats in the late nineteenth-century. Beginning in the mid 1890s, Rushton personally maintained books of cost records and cost finding rules for his boat-building...
Depreciation allowances -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain;Depreciation allowances -- Law and legislation -- United States
This paper examines and contrasts nineteenth century case law in Great Britain and the United States in which courts had to decide whether to accept accounting concepts having to do with making provisions for depreciation, amortization and...
Books reviewed are: Malcolm, Alexander. A Treatise of Bookkeeping or Merchants Accounts in the Italian Method of Debtor and Creditor; Mair, John. Bookkeeping Modernized or Merchant Accounts by Double Entry; Mitchell, William. A New and Complete...
The editors of the Journal have chosen in this issue to reprint the comments of two distinguished speakers, Thomas Cullen Roberts and James G. Cannon, on the occasion of the annual meeting of The American Association of Public Accountants at the...
As published on pp. 116-124, Twenty-First Anniversary Year-Book, (1908) of the American Association of Public Accountants (AAPA), forerunner of the American Institute of CPAs, these two addresses were presented at the AAPA annual banquet on October...
