This paper examines the probative capacity of accounting records as explicated in the accounting literature of early-modern Spain. Several early examples of Hispanic legal texts constitute the principal sources. The chief findings to emerge from...
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)
Franklin's autobiography contains an interesting reference to the "knowledge of accounts." An extract from Chapter VI, Self-Educuation, of the autobiography is quoted.
1989 Accounting Hall of Fame induction: Yuji Ijiri; Introduction by William W. Cooper (Nadya Kozmetsky Scott Centennial Fellow)and Induction Citation by Thomas J. Burns (Professor and Chairman Faculty Committee on Accounting Hall of Fame The Ohio...
Books reviewed are: Roger Backhouse, Economists and the Economy: The Evolution of Economic Ideas 1600 to the Present Day Reviewed by Alistair M. Preston; Barber B. Conable, Jr., Congress and the Income Tax Reviewed by Adrianne E. Slaymaker; Edgar...
Introduction by Sidney Davidson (Arthur Young Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Accounting and former Dean, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business) Induction citation by Thomas J. Burns (Professor and Chairman Committee on...
Books reviewed are: Philip D. Bougen, Accounting and Industrial Relations: Some Historical Evidence on Their Interaction Reviewed by Roxanne T. Johnson; Robert H. Frank, Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions Reviewed by Eric W....
Human Capital -- Accounting;Human Resources -- Accounting
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of numerous treatises on the relative merits of human resource accounting. While the unprecedented pervasiveness of human resource literature suggests that the topic is new to our era, the debate itself is...
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company;Railroads -- Accounting -- History;Actions and defenses
The issue about disclosing contingent losses arising from lawsuits has been an accounting problem for decades. Prior to 1953, there was no mandate for recording or disclosing such contingencies. In this study, the 307 court cases brought against...
The purpose of this paper is to provide a short history of the economic conditions which have led to the development and expansion of pension plans. Accounting for the cost of pension plans is also considered from a historical perspective.
Books reviewed are: A REVIEW ESSAY: Professional Foundations and Theories of Professional Behavior (Kedslie, M. J. M., Firm Foundations: The Development of Professional Accounting in Scotland 1850-1900) by Tom Lee; Henry Benson, GBE, FCA, Lord...
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...
