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.
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Books reviewed are: Robert R. Locke, The End of the Practical Man: Entrepreneurship and Higher Education in Germany, France and Great Britain, 1880-1940. Review by O. Finley Graves; F. Sewell Bray, Precision and Design in Accountancy Reviewed by...
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The common abbreviation for the accounting term debit is a puzzling one—Dr. Today, particularly with our depersonalized treatment of the accounting or bookkeeping debit, there is no obvious clue as to why there is an r in debit at all. An...
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Announcements include: advertisements for the following monographs, Selected Classics in the History of Bookkeeping, Accounting History Classics Series, Working Paper Series, price list for Academy publications, and table of contents for The...
John Mair, in 1752, stated, "Barter, or the exchange of goods for goods, is nothing else but buying and selling blended together." This statement, for all its seeming simplicity, is an excellent expression of the confusion which has accompanied the...
Announcements include: advertisements for the following monographs, Selected Classics in the History of Bookkeeping, Accounting History Classics Series, Working Paper Series, price list for Academy publications, and table of contents for The...
Announcements include: advertisements for the following monographs, Selected Classics in the History of Bookkeeping, Accounting History Classics Series, Working Paper Series, price list for Academy publications, and table of contents for The...