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...
Municipal budgets -- History;Budget in business -- HistorylBudget -- United States -- History
This paper examines certain interactions between American government and business which resulted in important innovations in the areas of budgeting and cost accounting early in the twentieth century. The evidence suggests that budgeting methods...
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 11th. Company A
Letter from Richard C. Bridges to his sister Matilda describing both his good health and that of the army; rues exorbitant prices in Richmond; describes movements of troops.
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 11th. Company A
Letter from Richard C. Bridges to his sister Matilda describing his poor health; predicts that neither army will be quick to resume hostilities after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Virginia Military Institute; Health; Weather; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Marriage; Falconer, Kinloch, 1838-1878; Man-woman relationships; Smith, Franklin Millington; Nelson, J. H. (John Henry), b. ca. 1810; Nelson,...
Mentions Tom and his illness; possibility of Tom's going to school; Virginia Military Institute; Abraham Lincoln and election; prospects for peace; possibility of Will's marrying; winter quarters and return from the trenches; ladies returning to...