Accounting -- China -- History;Accounting -- Hawaii -- History;Quipu -- History
The use of the "quipu" for accounting purposes has been primarily attributed to the Peruvian Inca culture in the days of old. Documented evidence, however, provides that early Hawaiians and ancient Chinese predated the Incan usage. Studies...
Accounting -- Peru -- History;Quipu -- History;Incas -- Accounting
The quipu was the ingenious, knotted-string device utilized throughout the Incan empire for recording data within the decimal system. Although quipu experts have often been thought of as managerial or governmental accountants, the writings of the...
Abstract: Confusion as to the real nature of commercial goodwill is well-entrenched in the literature, as evidenced by accountants' attention to valuation formulae rather than the underlying assets. The paper traces conceptual clarification of...
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Assets (Accounting);Corporations -- Accounting;Financial statements -- United States -- History;Valuations -- Corporations
The paper is a historical study of the asset revaluation movement and the subsequent establishment of the cost basis in the United States. A survey of the corporate report leads to a generalization that the asset revaluations were fundamentally the...
The idea of the "modern" business corporation is usually traced to England during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. However, many corporate attributes can be found in the Stoic's scientific theory of corpora. This theory permeated...
Auditing -- United States -- History;Railroads -- Accounting -- History
The paper explores the origins of the auditing profession in the United States. It is suggested that the development of the audit function in this country can be traced to reporting by internal and shareholder auditors in the American railroads...
The paper seeks to explore the origins of the paradigm on which modern accounting rests. It suggests that explanations which look to the relative concentration and dilution of the central political power may be relevant to discussing paradigms...
Capital -- Accounting -- History;Income accounting -- History
This paper evidences the contribution of leading writers in the early 1900s to the vexed problems associated with capital maintenance and periodic income determination. It reveals that the issues which were then being discussed (such as the...
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Books reviewed are: Carl Thomas Devine, Inventory Valuation and Periodic Income Reviewed by Dale Buckmaster; Bruce E. Gelsinger, Icelandic Enterprise: Commerce and Economy in the Middle Ages Reviewed by Roxanne Johnson; Edward Thomas Jones, Jones's...
Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915;Cost accounting -- History
Frederick Winslow Taylor developed a system of cost accounting while at the Midvale Steel Company (1878 to 1890). In their article on his contribution to the development of cost accounting, Chen and Pan suggest that Taylor has not received the...
The article briefly explores the personality and psychological makeup of Carman G. Blough and discusses some experiences during his formative years that made Blough the person he was.
Jones, Thomas, 1804-1889;Foster, Benjamin Franklin, ca. 1803-1859
Thomas Jones and Benjamin Franklin Foster were two early American accounting textbook authors and teachers. Their careers, spanning the middle of the nineteenth century, occurred during a time of relatively little professional activity and...
This article indicates that even the most recent forms of taxation find their roots firmly planted in Colonial America. The author shows that the concepts: ad valorem, transaction basis, indirect levy, multi-step collection, and taxation of net...
Books reviewed are: Tito Antoni, I Costi Industriali di Una Azienda Conciaria della Fine del Trecento, 1384-1388 Reviewed by Alvaro Martinelli; Horace Lucian Arnold (Henry Roland), The Complete Cost-Keeper, 3rd ed. Reviewed by G. Stevenson Smith;...
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