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...
Commission on Presidential Debates; University of Mississippi -- Riot, Sept. 30, 1962; Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2008; Campaign debates -- Mississippi -- Oxford; Campaign debates -- United States;
This film documents the 2008 Presidential Debate at the University of Mississippi between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain and celebrates the enormous efforts of thousands of individuals to make this historic debate a success from the...
As the revolution in computing advances, it is appropriate to step back and look at the earliest practical aid to computation?? abacus. Its formal western origins lie with the Greeks and the expansion of trade in the seventh century BC, and its...
Cost -- History;Cost accounting -- History;National Association of Cost Accountants;United States. Dept. of Commerce. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
The attempt to develop cost analysis methodologies for the marketing function began at the turn of the century. Early attempts followed the pattern of factory cost analysis and progress was slow until the break-through in the years 1940- 1941.
