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...
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.
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...
