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...
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...
Announcements include: Academy of Accounting Historians 1988 accounting history manuscript award, the Hourglass Award announcement, table of contents for Accounting and Business Research summer 1987, The Accounting Review, July 1987, Accounting and...
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...
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...
This bibliography is a continuation of those published in R. H. Parker (ed.) Bibliographies for Accounting Historians (New York, Arno Press, 1980). It has been drawn up upon the same principles and the arrangement is the same. Most items date from...
Affleck, Thomas, 1812-1868. The Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book
Cotton growing -- Accounting
During the antebellum period of United States history, the southern states generated an unprecedented amount of wealth through a well developed plantation system that produced vast quantities of cotton, sugar, and tobacco. To date, very little has...
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...
Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, one of the most outstanding intellectual figures of our time, died in October at the age of eighty-six. His vast erudition, accompanied with astonishing industry and magnificent style, made him a prolific writer on...
This paper provides an analysis of “elite” accounting practitioners during the formative years of the Canadian accounting profession (1880-1930). The social characteristics of this group in comparison with the Canadian population and the links...
Bentley, Harry C. (Harry Clark), 1877-1967;Sterrett, Joseph Edmund, 1870-1934;Mason, Perry Empey, 1899-1964;Montgomery, Robert Hiester, 1872-1953
Biographical sketches of Harry Clark Bentley by Edward James Gurry; Joseph E. Sterrrett by Barbara Dubis Marino; Perry Mason by Roscoe Eugene Bryson, Jr.; Robert Hiester Montgomery by Anthony T. Krzystofik.
Municipal budgets -- History;Budget in business -- HistorylBudget -- United States -- History
This paper examines certain interactions between American government and business which resulted in important innovations in the areas of budgeting and cost accounting early in the twentieth century. The evidence suggests that budgeting methods...
