Entrepreneurship -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th Century;Cost Accounting -- History
This article takes issue with economic historians who have tried to rehabilitate the reputation of the late Victorian and Edwardian entrepreneur. It argues that the revisionist attempt to ground their case on cost, profit, and productivity...
Announcements include: advertisements for the following monographs, Selected Classics in the History of Bookkeeping, Reference Chronology of Events..., A History of Accounting Thought, Accounting History Classics Series, John Raymond Wildman...
Dissertations abstracted are: Toward A Theory Of Evolution Of Selected Accounting Ideas by Man Chand Maloo; The Development of Income Reporting in the United States by Willard Harold Galliart; The Public Accounting Profession-The Impact of External...
Books reviewed are: David Hackett Fischer, Historians' Fallacies Reviewed by Orace Johnson; Kapadia, G. P., History of the Accountancy Profession in India Reviewed by Cadambi A. Srinivasan; Michael Chatfield, A History of Accounting Thought,...
Accounting -- Study and teaching;Account books -- History
This early address by Sprague, who is acknowledged as a telling influence among pre-classical American accounting practitioners and thinkers, previews the insight and sophistication which is set forth in his famous Philosophy of Accounts.
Managerial accounting -- History;National Association of Accountants
A comparative analysis of management accounting articles from the technical journals of the National Association of Accountants in each of the periods 1919 to 1925 and May to June 1975 discloses changes in the nature of the articles and of their...
Accounting -- Study and teaching;Accounting -- History
A report of a survey on the present and expected importance of accounting history to practicing accountants and accounting educators. The survey appears to indicate that accounting history is, and perhaps will continue to be, a topic of special...
Universities and colleges -- Accounting;Glasgow College;Bookkeeping -- Scotland -- History
In 1775 A.D. the recommendation was made that the accounts of Glasgow College be changed from the traditional charge and discharge type of records to a double entry bookkeeping system. This touched off an academic controversy that lasted for many...
Industrial management -- History;Cost accounting -- History
Many have suggested that scientific management had a direct influence on the development of standard costing. This paper examines the relationship between these concepts in broad terms. While it is concluded that no direct relationship exists...
Human capital -- Accounting;Managerial Accounting -- History;Management science -- History
A common misconception about human resource accounting (HRA) is that it focuses narrowly upon financial accounting, that its purpose is to reflect the asset value of people on financial statements. The major purpose of HRA is to provide concepts...
After urgent invitations by,the editors, W. A. Paton has sent us some recollecions of the circumstances leading to his interest in accounting, and of his experience as a writer in this field. The editors have added a bibliography of his major...
Dissertations abstracted are: Study of Governmental Accounting in China: With Special Reference to the Sung Dynasty (960-1279) by Philip Yuen-Ko Fu; An Analysis of the Development and Nature of Accounting Principles in Japan ( by Yukio Fujita; The...
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,...
Chamberlain, Robert, fl. 1678-1679. Accomptants guide or merchants book-keeper
The ownership of a copy of Chamberlain's The Accountants Guide or Merchants Bookkeeper, 1686 is traced through six famous owners from 1700 for almost a century. It is now housed in the Boston Athenaeum.
This represents an extract from the handwritten minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the American Association of Public Accountants, Monday, May 27, 1889. The extract is the Report of the President John Heins. This version, in typewritten form...
Bookkeeping -- Study and Teaching;Schreiber, Heinrich, d. 1525;Grammateus, Henricus
There seems to have been little change in financial statements from Grammateus to 1911. This article contains a 1911 practice set which was used to teach transaction accounting as well as trial balance and statement preparation along the lines...
Bookkeeping -- Germany -- History;Schreiber, Heinrich, d. 1525. Ayn New Kunstlich Buech;Grammateus, Henricus;Account Books -- History
This article brings to light the neglected contribution of Grammateus, the author or Ayn New Kunstlich Buech (A New Skill Book) which, although basically a mathematics text, contained a section on bookkeeping in the style of Paciolo's Summa. His...