This paper discusses Stuart Chase and his thoughts on social accounting and the economics of waste and inefficiency. An evolutionary socialist, economist, and CPA, Chase saw waste as the major socioeconomic problem of our time, and argued that...
Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation;Accounting -- Research -- Methodology;Empiricism
Little or nothing is said of empiricism in U.S. accounting literature during the first half of the twentieth century in accounting history literature. The objectives of this study are threefold: (1) to determine if an empirical accounting...
Touche, Niven & Co.;George Armistead & Co.;Brown, Bornhofft & Co.;John F. Forbes;William P. Field & Co.;McLaren, Goode & Co.;Morton & Gottenstratter;Musgrave & Co.;Richter & Co.;E. J. Shorrock & Co.;Snyder, Ellinger, & Davies;White & Currie;Charles...
The full title is: "The first forty years": A chronology of the more-important events in the hisory of the firm of Touche, Niven & Co. from its organizaton on March 1, 1900 to September 30, 1940; Five supplements bring the chronology up to August...
Goodwill (Commerce) -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States
The paper traces the development of the current valuation concept of goodwill from 1900 to 1970, when the present position was articulated. The paper suggests that there may be alternative bases for goodwill valuation and concludes that additional...
Harrison, Pat, 1881-1941; United States. Congress. Senate; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Democratic National Convention (1932 : Chicago, Ill.);
Harrison, Pat, 1881-1941; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Political campaigns -- United States; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945;
Pat Harrison standing outside with an folded umbrella under his arm reading three bulletins tacked on a wall.