Accounting -- China -- History;Bookkeeping -- China -- History
This paper examines the origination and evolution of Chinese double-entry- bookkeeping from the fifteenth century to eighteenth century. It demonstrates that Chinese merchants and bankers invented some types of double-entry spontaneously around the...
Inquiry into the origin of double entry accounting has typically focused on form as the causal factor. In the present article the arguments supporting this view are reviewed and challenged by developing the substantive framework of double entry...
Books reviewed are: Ellis Mast Sowell, The Evolution of the Theories and Techniques of Standard Costs Reviewed by Kenneth S. Most; James Ole Winjum, The Role of Accounting in the Economic Development of England: 1500-1750 Reviewed by Marc J....
Werner Sombart, a political economist of some note, was born and died in Germany. He studied law, economics, history and philosophy at the Universities of Berlin, Rome, and Pisa, and eventually became professor of economics in Berlin. The so-called...
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...
Books reviewed are: V. A. Mazdorov, History of Accounting Evolution in USSR (1917-1972) Reviewed by Yoshiro Kimizuka and Akira Mori; kazuo Kawahara, The Bookkeeping Methods of the Edo Era in Japan, Reviewed by Ryoji Inouye; Shigeo Aoki, editor,...
About ten years ago, the late Hugli1 published in the Zeitschrift für Buchhaltung an essay about the origin of the natural theory of accounting, usually known as the theory of two series of accounts. In this article, he attributed the development...
Books reviewed are: Axel Grandell, Redovisningens utvecklingshistoria fran bildskrit tii dator, reviewed by Sandor Aszely; John B. Inglis, My Life and Times, reviewed by Richard A. Scott; Hanns-Martin W. Schoenfeld, Cost Terminology and Cost...
Castillo, Diego del. Tratado de Cuentas;Executors and administrators -- Spain -- Accounting -- History;Estates -- Spain -- History
This paper examines an early modern contribution to the literature on stewardship accounting, the Tratado de Cuentas or Treatise on Accounts, by Diego del Castillo, a sixteenth-century Spanish jurist.
Accounting -- Study and teaching;Accounting -- History
A feature of the history of accounting thought is the existence of contending theories of accounts in continental Europe. Four schools of accounting thought developed and are here briefly examined.
