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;...
The paper investigates the Bonsignori accounts that are in the archives of the University of Kansas, Spencer Research Library. The file contains 133 documents and bound books relating to the affairs of the Filippo Bonsignori family between 1455 and...
Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918;Endowments -- Accounting;Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Accounting;Waqf -- History
The objective of this paper is to analyze Ottoman waqfs (foundations) to determine the internal control principles followed. In order to achieve this task, extensive references have been made to an actual waqf deed, The Waqfiyah of Ahmed Pasa. The...
Edward M. Carney, et. al., The American Business Manual Reviewed by Dale L. Flesher and Tonya K. Flesher; A Hamilton Church, The Proper Distribution of Expense Burden, Reviewed by Jackson F. Gillespie; Robert W. Gibson, Editor, Accounting Education...
Boston Manufacturing Company;Lawrence Manufacturing Company;Textile Industry -- Accounting;Cost accounting -- History;Waltham System
This study of the original accounting records of a pioneering American industrial enterprise narrows by one half the time lag between the earliest known English and American applications of industrial cost accounting. The research indicates that...
Cost accounting -- Great Britain -- History;Entrepreneurship -- Great Britain -- History
This article, like that published in the spring issue, again finds fault with recent attempts by economic historians to rehabilitate the reputation of the late Victorian and Edwardian entrepreneur. It argues that, since after 1880 cost accounting...
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...
Accounting -- Greece -- History;Auditing -- Greece -- History
Accountability and control of state revenues and expenditures in the Athenian state of the Golden Age was achieved through the verification process by three board of state accountants, based on the accounting records of execution and related...
Accounting -- England -- History;Collins, John, 1625-1683
This article will examine John Collins' textbooks, particularly An Introduction to Merchants Accounts, to consider the influence of merchants' current trading activities upon the accounting texts of seventeenth century England.
The development of accounting principles and the evolution of accounting systems are highly dependent on the socio-economic environment. Although the socio-economic environment of the Golden Age of Greece (5th to 4th Century B.C.), known as the...
