Dissertations abstracted are: Bank Behavior, Regulation and Economic Development: California 1860-1910 by Roger Charles Lister; Land Ownership in the Economic Development of Ghana, 1945-1975 by N.W. Ababio-Appah; Interaction Between Central...
Richard P. Brief, Editor, Selections from Encyclopaedia of Accounting 1903 Reviewed by Edward N. Coffman; F. L. Clarke, The Tangled Web of Price Variation Accounting Reviewed by Robert Bloom; D.A.R. Forrester, Editor, Frank Sewell Bray,Reviewed by...
This paper discusses Stuart Chase and his thoughts on social accounting and the economics of waste and inefficiency. An evolutionary socialist, economist, and CPA, Chase saw waste as the major socioeconomic problem of our time, and argued that...
Tax accounting -- Australia -- History;Corporations -- Taxation -- Australia
Tax effect accounting was introduced into Australia a little over a decade ago. The treatment of the tax effect of losses carried forward and the trading stock valuation adjustment introduced further complications to this new aspect of corporate...
Financial statements -- Law and legislation -- Canada;Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario
The Ontario Companies Act of 1907 was one of the earliest legislative enactments to require presentation at company annual meetings, and specify the content of, the financial statements of commercial and manufacturing companies. The study describes...
Financial statements -- Standards -- History;Accounting -- Standards -- History
The debate among accounting theoreticians as to the content and usefulness of the Financial Accounting Standards Board's concept statements and its conceptual framework project can better be understood if a perspective of prior "framework" efforts...
Books reviewed are:Donald R. Adams, Jr., Finance and Enterprise in Early America: A Study of Stephen Girards Bank 1812-1831 Reviewed by Michelle Hamer; Fred Bateman, Editor, Business in the New South: A Historical Perspective (Reviewed by Horace R....
Ice industry -- Cost accounting;Tudor Ice Company;Tudor, Frederic, 1783-1864
This paper describes selected accounting records of the Tudor Ice Company which were devised to manage and control the far-flung business activities of Frederic Tudor, a 19th century entrepreneur who has been called America's first monopolist....
Announcements include: advertisements for the following monographs, Selected Classics in the History of Bookkeeping, Accounting History Classics Series, Working Paper Series, price list for Academy publications, and table of contents for The...
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...
Dissertation abstracted are: Technology and Organization: Steel Rail Innovation and Railroad Survivorship in the American Manufacturing Region, 1860-1890 by David Paul Marple; The State and the Beginnings of the Railroad Grandes Lignes Network in...
Books reviewed are: Committee on Commemoration of One Hundred Years of Modern Accounting, Japan Accounting Association, One Hundred Years of Modern Accounting Reviewed by Kiyomitsu Arai; F. R. M. De Paula, Developments in Accounting Reviewed by...
Capital -- Accounting -- History;Income accounting -- History
This paper evidences the contribution of leading writers in the early 1900s to the vexed problems associated with capital maintenance and periodic income determination. It reveals that the issues which were then being discussed (such as the...
Books reviewed are: Carl Thomas Devine, Inventory Valuation and Periodic Income Reviewed by Dale Buckmaster; Bruce E. Gelsinger, Icelandic Enterprise: Commerce and Economy in the Middle Ages Reviewed by Roxanne Johnson; Edward Thomas Jones, Jones's...
