The conceptual and theoretical development of cost accounting has been at a standstill for several decades, despite its poor state and drastic changes in its environment. The concept of cost itself and related concepts are both unclear and...
Subtitles are: Household Economy as Factory Economy; Business Cycles; Depreciation; Inflation and Stabilized Accounting; Income Tax Law; Business Budgets; Uniform CPA Examinations Prepared by American Institute of Accountants; Actuarial Mathematics...
Boatbuilding -- Accounting;Boatbuilding -- Costs;Canoes and canoeing -- Costs;Rushton, J. Henry;Cost accounting -- History
J. Henry Rushton was the preeminent American builder of canoes and small pleasure boats in the late nineteenth-century. Beginning in the mid 1890s, Rushton personally maintained books of cost records and cost finding rules for his boat-building...
This paper concentrates on accounting aspects arising from the development of the railways. Railways in nineteenth century Britain had a major influence in reshaping some of the legislative procedures in parliament, the development of the capital...
Accounting -- Education;Accounting -- Examinations, Questions, etc. -- New York;Accounting -- New York -- Examinations, Questions, etc.
The table of contents lists the following: Preface; Certified public accountant law; Accountants credentials; General requirements; Preliminary education; Certified public accountant; Junior accountant;Calendar of examinations; Outline of...
Various accounting practices, based on the same accounting concepts and principles, have been developed to satisfy the multiple and changing needs of the users of accounting reports. Direct and absorption costing are two such accounting practices....
Announcements are: List of Working Papers Series; Advertisements for Selected Classics of Bookkeeping and The History of Accounting, A Reprint Collection; Third Annual Business Meeting; Papers received; Nomination Notice; Brochure available; Dues...
Abstracts of: The Behavioral Implications of the Stewardship Concept and Its Effects on Financial Reporting by Rosita Chen; Product Costing Under Conditions of Idle Plant Capacity by Edwin Bartenstein; The Impact of Blue-sky Regulations on the New...
Books reviewed are: Craswell, Allen. Audit Qualifications in Australia 1950 to 1979 Reviewed by Roland L. Madison; J. R. Edwards, Editor, Reporting Fixed Assets in Nineteenth-Century Company Accounts Reviewed by Hans V. Johnson; Louis Goldberg,...
This article outlines the lives and background of the main writers who were active in the 18th century period of ’scottish Ascendancy’ in accounting texts. The impressive publications produced by this group are detailed and the question of why...
This bibliography is a continuation of those published in R. H. Parker (ed.) Bibliographies for Accounting Historians (New York, Arno Press, 1980). It has been drawn up upon the same principles and the arrangement is the same. Most items date from...
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....
Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915;Cost accounting -- History
Frederick Winslow Taylor developed a system of cost accounting while at the Midvale Steel Company (1878 to 1890). In their article on his contribution to the development of cost accounting, Chen and Pan suggest that Taylor has not received the...
