Assets (Accounting);Financial statements -- History;Corporations -- Accounting -- History
Early SEC filings for 110 corporations listed on the New York Stock Exchange are used to summarize the extent and accounting treatment of asset revaluations during the period 1925-1934. The findings, considered with a brief review of the relevant...
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...
Securities and Exchange Commission;United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
The recollections of John L. Carey about the policies and politics in professional circles during the very important period when the Securities Exchange Commission first came into being. Mr. Carey served the American Institute of Certified Public...
The economic life, customs and importance of 1794 Middletown, Delaware are interpreted from the accounting ledgers of a general store and a blacksmith shop.
Iranian village accounting, which we studied by translating and analyzing the records of a trading house in the early twentieth century, was relatively unaffected by Western contact. The records were kept on a slightly modified cash basis,...
Forges de Stain-Maurice, Les;Managerial accounting -- Canada -- History;Managerial accounting -- Case studies
From a capital budget, an operating budget and a partnership agreement prepared almost 250 years ago in New France, a cash Budget and balance sheets are prepared to help in an analysis of the viability of the company. This investigation into the...
Barter -- History;Credit -- History;Bookkeeping -- History
Since accounting develops to meet the needs of its environment, the same systems may not be used in all parts of the country at the same time. A system of barter and credit bookkeeping was common in the U. S. during the 1700's, but began to...
George Washington's interest in bookkeeping began in 1747 when at the age of 15 he started his first ledger and lasted until his death in 1799. His bookkeeping records span a period of fifty years. This manuscript reveals a unique side to President...
Sharecroppers -- Legal status, laws, etc.;Contracts -- New Hampshire
Sharecropper agreement found in wastebook and customers' ledger dated January 1824 to November 1835. The ledger originally belonged to Abner Barden a hatter of Richmond, New Hampshire and is now in the Accounting Collection, Rare Book Room,...
The following question appeared in Francis Baily's celebrated 1808 text on interest and annuities: "If a penny had been put out at 5 percent compound interest at the birth of Christ; to what sum would it amount at the end of the year 1810?" . A...
Books reviewed are: Stephen A. Zeff, (ed.), Asset Appreciation, Business lncome and Price-Level Accounting: 1918-1935 Reviewed by Louis Goldberg; The Chartered Accountant in Australia, Golden Jubilee Issue Reviewed by Robert H. Raymond; Rex...
Dissertations abstracted are: The Evolution of Accounting Thought and Practices Related to Bond Refunding by George Howard Neal; Banking in California: Some Evidence on Structure, 1878-1905 by Lynne Margaret Pierson Doti; The National Banks and...
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...