This paper traces development in the accounting literature, circa 1909-1933, of, dominant support for contra-equity presentation of treasury stock, and relates this overview to prominent current arguments for selective asset treatment. Classic...
Announcements include: advertisements for Accounting Historians Journal Vol. 1-3, Accounting History Classics Series, Selected Classics in the History of Bookkeeping, and Working Paper Series. Also included are: price list for the Academy's...
Dissertations abstracted are: Salt-Making, Merchants and Markets: The Role of a Critical Resource in the Development of Maya Civilization by Anthony Parshall Andrews; Military and Financial Government in France, 1648-1 661 by Peter Jonathan Berger;...
Books reviewed are: Lawrence Robert Dicksee. Business Methods and the War Reviewed by William L. Talbert; Marc Jay Epstein, The Effect of Scientific Management on the Development of the Standard Cost System Reviewed by Ashton C. Bishop; Charles...
Business -- History -- Study and teaching;Business education;Accounting education;Management education
Members of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business were surveyed to determine to what extent the history of various business school subjects (accounting, economics, management, etc.) was a part of today's curricula. Findings...
Net present value and equivalent annual cost are two discounted cash flow criteria for comparing investment proposals. Why have accountants taken to net present value? Why do engineers readily use equivalent annual cost? This paper investigates the...
Whenever income and capital maintenance concepts are discussed at the conceptual level, a reference to Hicks is likely to be found. These references are misleading since Hicks himself believed that the proper basis of valuation in the financial...
Accounting -- Examinations, Questions, etc. -- History;Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales -- History
Abstract: This study considers the final examinations of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, from 1882-1981. Discussion of the likely purposes of the examinations, and of possible ways of assessing their efficiency, is...
Schwarz, Matth?, 1497-1574?;Account books -- History;Bookkeeping -- History
In 1518, when nothing but Paciolo's "Summa" had been printed in the world of bookkeeping, Matth? Schwarz, who was a bookkeeper of the Fuggers, wrote a manuscript on bookkeeping known as "Threefold Bookkeeping." This manuscript showed an...
Generally accepted accounting principles require the exclusion of permanent property and the non-recognition of depreciation in most governmental funds. Although this issue was settled in the early 1930s fervent debate continued as to the merits of...
Inventories -- History;Taxation -- United States -- History
The history of LIFO illustrates the interplay of taxes and the general acceptance of accounting principles. In this paper, the gradual acceptance of LIFO in the United States is traced. The study focuses on both the theoretical evolution of LIFO...
Announcements include Hourglass Award and table of contents for Accounting and Business Research spring 1992 and summer 1992, Contemporary Accounting Research fall 1992 and Call for Papers, Conference on Biographical research in Accounting and the...
Income accounting -- History;Financial statements -- History
The origin of income smoothing in literature has been attributed to different authors in recent years. However, the attributions have been made based on research using a simple analysis of the term "income smoothing". This study considers the...
Accounting -- China -- History;Bookkeeping -- China -- History
This paper examines the origination and evolution of Chinese double-entry- bookkeeping from the fifteenth century to eighteenth century. It demonstrates that Chinese merchants and bankers invented some types of double-entry spontaneously around the...
Numerals -- History;Accounting -- History;Bookkeeping -- History
The general adoption of "Arabic" numerals by European bookkeepers occurred at least five hundred years after their introduction to the scholarly world. The early availability yet late adoption of this numeration is shown to be due to several...
Books reviewed are: Dale L. Flesher, The Institute of Internal Auditors: 50 Years of Progress Through Sharing Reviewed by Frank E. Ryerson III; O. Finley Graves, ed., The Costing Heritage: Studies in Honor of S. Paul Garner Reviewed by Jack Ruhl;...
1991 Accounting Hall of Fame induction: Raymond J. Chambers with introduction by Murray Wells (Chairman and Professor, University of Sydney); Induction citation by Daniel L. Jensen (Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting Department of Accounting and...
