Selected on the basis of their etymological appeal to the author, eighteen accounting terms are traced to their earliest ascertainable form and meaning in the family of languages to which they belong. Such an investigation not only reveals...
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...
This paper reviews the evolution of French cost accounting from the mid-1500's to the present. As might be expected, the development of costing techniques accelerated in the late nineteenth century. Modern French cost accounting probably began with...
Books reviewed are: Howard F. Stettler, Editor, Auditing Looks Ahead??ceedings of the 1972 Touche Ross/University of Kansas Symposium on Auditing Problems Reviewed by James D. Blum; Charles William Lamden, The Securities and Exchange Commission: A...
Glass manufacture -- France -- History;Cost accounting -- France -- History;Bookkeeping -- France -- History;Manufacture Royale des Glaces
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
In 1820, the Manufacture Royale des Glaces, founded in 1665 and also named Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, opted for double entry bookkeeping and cost accounting. At that time, both economic (industrial revolution) and juridical (abolition of the...
Great Britain -- History, Military; Great Britain -- Relations -- France; Patriotism; Nationalism; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; John Bull (Symbolic character); Popular music -- England -- 19th century;
Nationalistic Napoleonic War era song concerning British-French relations