Books reviewed are: V. A. Mazdorov, History of Accounting Evolution in USSR (1917-1972) Reviewed by Yoshiro Kimizuka and Akira Mori; kazuo Kawahara, The Bookkeeping Methods of the Edo Era in Japan, Reviewed by Ryoji Inouye; Shigeo Aoki, editor,...
Books reviewed are: Raymond de Roover, Business, Banking, and Economic Thought in Late Medievel and Early Modern Europe Reviewed by Edwin Bartenstein; O. ten Have (translated by A. van Seventer), The History of AccountancyReviewed by Kathryn C....
The evolution of the procedure of comparing the column total of additions (footings) of the journal with the debit and credit totals of the same time period in the ledger is discussed as it reflects the contributions of E. T. Jones of England.
Onko ten Have's contribution to the literature on accounting history is especially important because of the otherwise scant coverage of the accounting development in the Low Countries during the 17th and 18th centuries. Other writings of this...
Bribery -- History;Accounting -- Moral and Ethical Aspects
In the late nineteenth century The Accountant reported on a case where the auditors looked at the mattery of bribery "straight in the face" and disclosed the illegal payments in the audit certificate. However, subsequent discussion of the...
Giovanni Farolfi and Co.;Farolfi (Giovanni) and Co.;Bookkeeping -- History
This article examines the branch ledger of a Florentine firm in 13th century Provence, and its relationship to contemporaneous Tuscan account books. It is concluded that the ledger was part of a sophisticated accounting system, with a debit and...
This article reviews the development of income presentation found in the authoritative accounting pronouncements since 1941. During this period, within the historical cost reporting model for presentation of income, emphasis has shifted from the...
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...
Accounting -- Study and teaching;Bookkeeping -- Study and teaching
These thoughts of an early American accounting author reflect the frustrations encountered in attempting to establish the process of teaching account keeping within the general scheme of education. This item by Jones first appeared in 1842 as an...
Dissertations abstracted are: Perspectives on the "Objectives of Financial Statements" by Robert Bloom; Robert M. Trueblood, CPA: The Consumate Professional by Roscoe Bryson; Robert H. Montgomery: A Pioneer Leader of American Accounting by Alfred...
Books reviewed are: (1) Rollo G. Silver, Publishing in Boston, 1726-57, The Accounts of Daniel Henchman, Reviewed by William Holmes. (2) J. Gambino and John R. Palmer, Management Accounting in Colonial America, Reviewed by Edward N. Coffman. (3) An...
Although much of Colonel Henry Bouquet's work dealt with military strategy an even greater portion concerned the construction of the roads and posts and the victualling of the troops under his command. In meeting these demands Bouquet displayed a...
Tallies;Reckoning boards;Accounting machines -- History
Two accounting aids of great importance for society in Sweden and Finland during the17th, 18th and 19th centuries were the reckoning board and the tally stick.
This paper briefly discusses the highlights of the evolution of budgetary accounting from approximately 1870. No attempt was made to deal with the evolution of budgetary accounting prior to this period.
Books -- Conservation and repair;Manuscripts -- Conservation and repair
The accounting historian's part in the wider preservation (i.e., keeping of old documents) is to conduct a campaign to persuade people?? this include librarians who are forced to prune their stocks of material through lack of space?? to destroy old...
Accounting -- England -- History;Collins, John, 1625-1683
This article will examine John Collins' textbooks, particularly An Introduction to Merchants Accounts, to consider the influence of merchants' current trading activities upon the accounting texts of seventeenth century England.
