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....
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...
Books reviewed are: R. Dan Brumbaugh, Jr., Thrifts Under Siege. Paul Zane Pilzer, Other Peoples Money. Stephen Pizzo, Mary Flicker, and Paul Muolo, Inside Job: The Looting of Americas Savings and Loans. A Review Essay: The Savings and Loan Crisis...
Corporations -- France -- Accounting;Accounting -- Law and legislation -- France
The first official French Accounting Plan, adopted in 1947, had a marked influence in several countries. Its impact can still be felt today and many of its features have been retained in the 1982 French Accounting Plan. The article highlights the...
Accounting firms -- United States -- History;Accounting -- United States -- History -- 20th century
This paper examines the growth and changing role of the accounting profession in the United States from 1900 to 1990 with special emphasis on "Big Eight" accounting firms. Major political, economic, and social events of the period and their...
Anecdotes;Accounting -- History -- Bibliography;Accounting -- History -- Correspondence
Subtitles are: Contact Notes; Historical Antecedents: Historical Potpourri; History in Print; Letters; Out of the Past; Research Resources; Through the Ages
Announcements are: Working Paper series; Coffman edits series; publication of the History of Accountancy by O. ten Have; History of Accounting, A Reprint Collection; Selected Classics in the History of Bookkeeping; Now available Monograph #1, A...
Numerals -- History;Accounting -- History;Bookkeeping -- History
The general adoption of "Arabic" numerals by European bookkeepers occurred at least five hundred years after their introduction to the scholarly world. The early availability yet late adoption of this numeration is shown to be due to several...
Accounting -- Societies, etc.;Learned institutions and societies -- Australia;International Accountants Corporation and Bookkeepers Institute of Australasia;International Institute of Accountants
In 1928, the beginnings were laid for the International Accountants Corporation and Bookkeepers Institute of Australasia. This was followed in a few years by the International Institute of Accountants. This was an ambitious move to internationalize...
Scott, DR (1887-1954). Cultural Significance of Accounts;Accounting -- Research
Cushing's [1989] recent analysis of Kuhn's [1970] characterization of the state of crisis within a discipline's research agenda suggests that the accounting discipline is showing symptoms of such a crisis. In this paper, DR Scott's [1931] classical...
Leonard, Jerris (Jerris G.) 1931-2006; Mitchell, John N. (John Newton), 1913-1988; United States. Dept. of Justice. Civil Rights Division; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; Civil rights; Apportionment (Election law) -- Mississippi;...