Human Capital -- Accounting;Human Resources -- Accounting
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of numerous treatises on the relative merits of human resource accounting. While the unprecedented pervasiveness of human resource literature suggests that the topic is new to our era, the debate itself is...
Announcements include the hourglass award and table of contents for Accounting and Business Research autumn 1990, Accounting and Finance May 1990, The Accounting Review Oct. 1990
Books reviewed are: Philip D. Bougen, Accounting and Industrial Relations: Some Historical Evidence on Their Interaction Reviewed by Roxanne T. Johnson; Robert H. Frank, Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions Reviewed by Eric W....
Introduction by Sidney Davidson (Arthur Young Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Accounting and former Dean, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business) Induction citation by Thomas J. Burns (Professor and Chairman Committee on...
Determining what should be considered a material item has been a problem for both the accounting profession and the courts. By reviewing the court cases involving the issue of materiality, the authors have determined where differences in the...
During the second half of the nineteenth century, managerial accounting development in Germany was based on micro-economic theory. In the twentieth century, the emphasis shifted to techniques and later to determination of "true cost", resulting in...
An issue in the measurement of earnings is: Should the determination of financial position-that is, the measurement of assets and liabilities-determine income? That can be called a balance sheet or asset and liability perspective. Or should the...
Glass manufacture -- France -- History;Cost accounting -- France -- History;Bookkeeping -- France -- History;Manufacture Royale des Glaces
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
In 1820, the Manufacture Royale des Glaces, founded in 1665 and also named Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, opted for double entry bookkeeping and cost accounting. At that time, both economic (industrial revolution) and juridical (abolition of the...
This paper reviews the evolution of French cost accounting from the mid-1500's to the present. As might be expected, the development of costing techniques accelerated in the late nineteenth century. Modern French cost accounting probably began with...
New England accounting historians are, of course, lucky. We sit on a whole mess of accounting dumps-state, city, town, local historical societies, museums, and private collections-not to speak of the large college collections. Much of it isn't even...
There has been a noticeable decline in accounting publications and research on the natural business year since the early 1960's, the same time that the AICPA Committee on Natural Business Year ended. Accountants and accounting institutional bodies...
Charles Lamb (1775-1834), English author, who became famous for his informal, personal essays and literary criticism, is presented here in his vocational role as accounting clerk. Lambs long years of experience in and out of Londons counting-houses...
Learned institutions and societies -- Scotland -- History;Accounting -- Societies, etc.;Institute of Accountants in Edinburgh;Institute of Accountants in Glasgow
This paper examines the range of activities undertaken in the mid-1850s by the men who formed the early professional accounting bodies. It also highlights the social differences that existed between the founding members of the Edinburgh and Glasgow...
I don't like handicapping, in any sport, and never have. It's an egalitarian practice-as I see it-without any significant merit. I'm firmly committed to the view that a society in which awards are commensurate with performance, productivity, is...
Werner Sombart, a political economist of some note, was born and died in Germany. He studied law, economics, history and philosophy at the Universities of Berlin, Rome, and Pisa, and eventually became professor of economics in Berlin. The so-called...
The many scholarly works of the late Professor Federigo Melis are perhaps not as well known in the English speaking world as on the Continent. This special tribute, reflecting the combined skills of three outstanding accounting historians, Dean...
