Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company;Corporate governance -- United States;
Presenting evidence from a 19th century corporation, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company (C&O), the paper shows that issues of corporate governance have existed since the first corporations were established in the U.S. The C&O used a stockholder...
Audit Committees;East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad Company
Board of directors' audit committees are becoming an increasingly popular vehicle for enhancing the objectivity and independence of auditors and overseeing the financial information generating process. This is occurring at a time when directors and...
Dissertations abstracted are: Study of Governmental Accounting in China: With Special Reference to the Sung Dynasty (960-1279) by Philip Yuen-Ko Fu; An Analysis of the Development and Nature of Accounting Principles in Japan ( by Yukio Fujita; The...