Gold mines and mining -- Accounting -- History;Silver mines and mining -- Accounting -- History;Consolidated Virginia Mining Company;California Mining Company;Portland Mining Company
This study found evidence which supports the thesis that cost accounting techniques evolved rapidly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The cost accounting system employed by the leading mines of the Comstock Lode during the 1870's...
Accounting -- Study and teaching;New York School of Accounts
Current developments in accounting education are the result of the vision and efforts of the early-pioneers in public accounting practice. Clearly these accountants wanted to elevate public accounting to a professional level. Their belief that...
Cost Accounting -- History;Church, A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton), 1866-1936
The influence of engineers on the development of cost accounting in the closing decades of last century has been well recognized. The influence of economists, the retarding effects of an obsession with industrial secrecy, and some curious effects...
Ships; Shipwrecks; Sailors; Winds; Popular music -- England -- 19th century;
Song concerning the sinking of the H.M.S. Captain off Cape Finisterre, Spain on 6-7 September 1870, knocked over by the wind; this capsize killed Cowper Phipps Coles, the ships designer
