Books reviewed are: Tito Antoni, I Costi Industriali di Una Azienda Conciaria della Fine del Trecento, 1384-1388 Reviewed by Alvaro Martinelli; Horace Lucian Arnold (Henry Roland), The Complete Cost-Keeper, 3rd ed. Reviewed by G. Stevenson Smith;...
Books reviewed are: Lawrence Robert Dicksee. Business Methods and the War Reviewed by William L. Talbert; Marc Jay Epstein, The Effect of Scientific Management on the Development of the Standard Cost System Reviewed by Ashton C. Bishop; Charles...
Whenever income and capital maintenance concepts are discussed at the conceptual level, a reference to Hicks is likely to be found. These references are misleading since Hicks himself believed that the proper basis of valuation in the financial...
Announcements include: advertisements for the following monographs, Selected Classics in the History of Bookkeeping, Essays in Honour of Trevor R. Johnston, Accounting History Classics Series, Working Paper Series, price list for Academy...
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.
Books reviewed are: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Editor, Managerial Innovation at General Motors Reviewed by Daniel A. Wren; Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Editor, Pioneers in Modern Factory Management Reviewed by Michael F. Pohlen; Nicholas Dopuch and...
Announcements include: advertisements for the following monographs, Selected Classics in the History of Bookkeeping, Eric Louis Kohler, Accounting History Classics Series, Working Paper Series, price list for Academy publications, and table of...
Announcements include: advertisements for the following monographs, Selected Classics in the History of Bookkeeping, Eric Louis Kohler, Working Paper Series, Schmalenbach & After, Accounting History Classics Series, A History of Accounting in...
Many aspects of Luca Pacioli's life remain to be clarified for us. The author has, through personal research, thrown light on Paciloi's last resting place and his date of death.
Cost accounting -- Great Britain -- History;Entrepreneurship -- Great Britain -- History
This article, like that published in the spring issue, again finds fault with recent attempts by economic historians to rehabilitate the reputation of the late Victorian and Edwardian entrepreneur. It argues that, since after 1880 cost accounting...
Books reviewed are: Stephen A. Zeff, (ed.), Asset Appreciation, Business lncome and Price-Level Accounting: 1918-1935 Reviewed by Louis Goldberg; The Chartered Accountant in Australia, Golden Jubilee Issue Reviewed by Robert H. Raymond; Rex...
Entrepreneurship -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th Century;Cost Accounting -- History
This article takes issue with economic historians who have tried to rehabilitate the reputation of the late Victorian and Edwardian entrepreneur. It argues that the revisionist attempt to ground their case on cost, profit, and productivity...
