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- Development of "the big eight" accounting firms in the United States, 1900-1990
- Accounting firms -- United States -- History;Accounting -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- This paper examines the growth and changing role of the accounting profession in the United States from 1900 to 1990 with special emphasis on "Big Eight" accounting firms. Major political, economic, and social events of the period and their...
- Academy of Accounting Historians
- Using historical annual reports in teaching: Letting the past benefit the present
- Corporation reports -- Study and teaching;Financial statements -- Study and teaching;Accounting -- Study and teaching
- In this article, it is suggested that accounting education may be enhanced by the use of published historical accounting materials, such as annual reports. Comparing such materials with modern reports serves to reinforce the notion that accounting...
- Academy of Accounting Historians
- Historical review of the accounting treatment of research and development costs
- Research, industrial -- Accounting
- This study reviews the literature and the practice of accounting for research and development (R&D) costs from the first reference in 1917 to the current treatment. The conceptual treatment of R&D is compared to current financial accounting rules...
- Academy of Accounting Historians
- Announcement [1976, Vol. 3, nos. 1-4]
- Announcements are: Working Paper series; Coffman edits series; publication of the History of Accountancy by O. ten Have; History of Accounting, A Reprint Collection; Selected Classics in the History of Bookkeeping; Now available Monograph #1, A...
- Academy of Accounting Historians
- Nature and environment of cost management among early nineteenth century U.S. texitle [i.e. textile] manufacturers
- Textile industry -- Accounting;Cost accounting -- History
- Several authors have suggested that a particular managerial component was needed before cost accounting could be fully used for accountability and disciplinary purposes. They argue that the marriage of managerialism and accounting first occurred in...
- Academy of Accounting Historians
- Introduction of "Arabic" numerals in European accounting
- 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...
- Academy of Accounting Historians
- Analysis of The Town Officer (1791-1815): The earliest American treatise on municipal accounting?
- Freeman, Samuel, 1743-1831. The Town Officer;Municipal finance -- Accounting
- Recent research has produced the earliest known treatise on Accounting written by an American. Samuel Freeman's The Town Officer [1791] is significant in that it recommended double-entry fund accounting for municipalities. The paper analyzes and...
- Academy of Accounting Historians
- Australian attempt to internationalize accounting professional organizations
- Accounting -- Societies, etc.;Learned institutions and societies -- Australia;International Accountants Corporation and Bookkeepers Institute of Australasia;International Institute of Accountants
- In 1928, the beginnings were laid for the International Accountants Corporation and Bookkeepers Institute of Australasia. This was followed in a few years by the International Institute of Accountants. This was an ambitious move to internationalize...
- Academy of Accounting Historians
- Chinese double-entry bookkeeping before the nineteenth century
- 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...
- Academy of Accounting Historians
- Government/business synergy: Early American innovations in budgeting and cost accounting
- Municipal budgets -- History;Budget in business -- HistorylBudget -- United States -- History
- This paper examines certain interactions between American government and business which resulted in important innovations in the areas of budgeting and cost accounting early in the twentieth century. The evidence suggests that budgeting methods...
- Academy of Accounting Historians
- Income smoothing in accounting and business literature prior to 1954
- 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...
- Academy of Accounting Historians
- Reviews [1992, Vol. 19, no. 2]
- Books reviewed are: Edward J. Kane, The S & L Insurance Mess: How Did It Happen?; Lawrence J. White, The S & L Debacle. Public Policy Lessons for Bank and Thrift Regulation; Martin Mayer, The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery. The Collapse of the Savings...
- Academy of Accounting Historians
- Maintaining accounting as the paramount interest in accounting research: Re-examining the contributions of DR Scott
- Scott, DR (1887-1954). Cultural Significance of Accounts;Accounting -- Research
- Cushing's [1989] recent analysis of Kuhn's [1970] characterization of the state of crisis within a discipline's research agenda suggests that the accounting discipline is showing symptoms of such a crisis. In this paper, DR Scott's [1931] classical...
- Academy of Accounting Historians
- Accounting Historians Journal, 1974-1976, Vol. 1-3
- Accounting -- History
- Academy of Accounting Historians
- Year-book (Twenty-first Anniversary) Constitution and By-Laws. Model C.P.A. Law. Officers, Committees, Trustees, and Members. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting at Atlantic City, N. J., October twentieth--Twenty Second, Nineteen Hundred and Eight
- American Association of Public Accountants;
- AICPA historical collection
- Year-book (Twenty-second Anniversary). Offers, Committees, Trustees, and Members. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting at Denver, Colorado, October 18, 19, 20, 21, Nineteen Hundred and Nine
- American Association of Public Accountants;
- AICPA historical collection
- Year-book (twenty-third Anniversary). Officers, Committees, Trustees, and Members. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting at the Hotel Astor, New York City, October 17, 18, 19, and 20, 1910
- American Association of Public Accountants;
- AICPA historical collection
- Year-book (Twenty-fourth anniversary). Officers, Committees, Trustees and Members. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, September 19th, 20th, and 21st, 1911.
- American Association of Public Accountants;
- AICPA historical collection
- Year-book, 1912-1913,Officers, Committees, Trustees and Members. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting in Boston, September 16th, 17th, and 18th, 1913...
- American Association of Public Accountants;
- AICPA historical collection
- Year-book 1913-1914,Officers, Committees, Trustees and Members. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting in Washington, September 15th, 16th, and 17th, 1914...
- American Association of Public Accountants;
- AICPA historical collection

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