The dissertation abstracted is: Understanding Accounting in its Social and Historical Context: The Case of Cost Accounting in Britain 1914-1925 by Anne Loft.
The accounting profession has changed to meet the requirements of business, government and other economic influences. In particular, standards of practice and principles to guide the selection of choices have been developed, modified, restated and...
Books reviewed are: Tito Antoni, I Costi Industriali di Una Azienda Conciaria della Fine del Trecento, 1384-1388 Reviewed by Alvaro Martinelli; Horace Lucian Arnold (Henry Roland), The Complete Cost-Keeper, 3rd ed. Reviewed by G. Stevenson Smith;...
Books reviewed are: (1) Rollo G. Silver, Publishing in Boston, 1726-57, The Accounts of Daniel Henchman, Reviewed by William Holmes. (2) J. Gambino and John R. Palmer, Management Accounting in Colonial America, Reviewed by Edward N. Coffman. (3) An...
Europeans transported continental accounting practices during the period of worldwide colonization. This paper describes the transportation of branch accounting by members of the Moravian Church. Physical records maintained in the Archives for the...
