Cost Accounting -- History;Hamilton, Robert, 1743-1829. Introduction to Merchandise
Almost contemporaneously with The Wealth of Nations, a treatise on bookkeeping and accounts was published which shows a lucid awareness of several cost issues, especially of the futility of attempting to allocate common or joint cost. This book is...
Books reviewed are: Reflections OF A RenaissanceScholar: Carl Devine's Essays in Accounting Theory, Volumes I-V, Reviewed by Edward Arrington; Hall, William D. Accounting and Auditing: Thoughts on Forty Years in Practice and Education. Authur...
Wheat -- Prices -- Peru -- History;Bakers and bakeries -- Accounting;Bakers and bakeries -- Peru -- Lima -- History
This article analyzes the information found in the newly discovered account book in the Lima National Archives on bulk wheat prices paid by a centrally located bakery for the nine year period 1812 to June 1821. The conclusion is that the price of...
Anecdotes -- Accounting;Accounting -- History -- Bibliography
Subtitles are: Book Mart; Contact Notes; Historical Antecedents; Historical Potpourri; History in Print; Out of the Past; Research Notes; Research Resources; Through the Ages
Contemporary Accounting Research;Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation;Accounting -- Research -- Methodology
Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) has expanded substantially in scope over the past two decades. This paper provides an overview of these trends using both quantitative techniques from statistics and exploratory data analysis (EDA). Articles...
Books reviewed are: Malcolm, Alexander. A Treatise of Bookkeeping or Merchants Accounts in the Italian Method of Debtor and Creditor; Mair, John. Bookkeeping Modernized or Merchant Accounts by Double Entry; Mitchell, William. A New and Complete...
Defliese, Philip L.;Accounting Hall of Fame (Ohio State University. Fisher College of Business)
Philip Leroy Defliese, Honoree; CITATION Presented by: Robert M. Trueblood Professor Yuji Ijiri (Carnegie-Mellon University); Written by: Professor Thomas J. Burns (The Ohio State University)
Recent archeological research offers revolutionary insight about the precursor of abstract counting and pictographic as well as ideographic writing. This precursor was a data processing system in which simple (and later complex) clay tokens of...
L.N. Dantzler Company;Dantzler (L.N.) Company;Ten Mile Lumber Company;Native Lumber Company;Taxation -- United States -- Law and Legislation;Financial statements -- History
The purpose of this paper is to examine the financial accounting records of a Mississippi timber company and its subsidiaries in light of the dynamic tax environment of the period 1905 to 1925. The financial accounting records and correspondence...
The conceptual and theoretical development of cost accounting has been at a standstill for several decades, despite its poor state and drastic changes in its environment. The concept of cost itself and related concepts are both unclear and...
Accounting historians, familiar with the evolution of income determination theory are aware fo the host of early writers who became embroiled in the issue of interest as a cost.
Announcements include: table of contents for Abacus March 1987, Accounting and Business Research autumn 1986, Accounting and Finance Nov. 1986, Accounting Review Jan. 1987, Contemporary Accounting Reseach spring 1987, and Journal of Accounting...
International Accounting History Symposium;Bookkeeping -- Germany -- History;Auditing -- Germany -- History
Summary of two papers: State of Bookkeeping in Upper Germany at the Time of the Fuggers and Welsers, by Hermann Kellenbenz; Survey of the Development of Auditing in Germany, by Rosa-Elizabeth Gassmann
Books reviewed are: LaCapra, Dominick.—History Criticism. and Porter, Dale L. The Emergence of the Past-A Theory of Historical Explanation. Reviewed By Barbara D. Merino; Yamey, B. S., Edey, H. C. and Thomson, H. W. Accounting in England and...
Municipal finance -- Accounting -- History;Nau, Carl Henry, 1867- -- Portraits;Portraits -- Nau, Carl Henry, 1867-
Despite the fact that municipal accounting was a significant and permanent reform of the Progressive era, historians have failed to accord accountants proper credit for their leadership roles. Ohio was an important Progressive state and is...
Accounting -- History;Accounting -- Study and teaching
The object of all this review of historical apocrypha is really quite simple - historical statements made by non-historians, in particular, must be challenged by historians.
Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation;Agency (Law);Commercial agents -- Study and teaching
With the advent of new bibliographic data sources and new analytical techniques, accounting historians may now trace the development of accounting thought with the aid of bibliometric analysis. The objective of this paper is to discuss a social...
