East India Company;Bookkeeping -- England -- History;Account books -- History
Although the account-books of the East India Company for the period 1600-1657 are lost, an almost complete series of minutes and other documents make the exploration of accounting in this great mercantile company possible. The present study...
Industrial management -- History;Cost accounting -- History
Many have suggested that scientific management had a direct influence on the development of standard costing. This paper examines the relationship between these concepts in broad terms. While it is concluded that no direct relationship exists...
Cost Accounting -- History;Church, A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton), 1866-1936
The influence of engineers on the development of cost accounting in the closing decades of last century has been well recognized. The influence of economists, the retarding effects of an obsession with industrial secrecy, and some curious effects...
Financial statements, consolidated -- Great Britain -- History;Holding companies -- Great Britain -- History;PK Limited;RB Limited
The most recent effort at restating the auditor's standard report, SAS 58, is the most comprehensive statement of the auditor's role that has ever been adopted. It is an acknowledgment that the previous report had become an ineffective...
Learned institutions and societies -- Scotland -- History;Accounting -- Societies, etc.;Institute of Accountants in Edinburgh;Institute of Accountants in Glasgow
This paper examines the range of activities undertaken in the mid-1850s by the men who formed the early professional accounting bodies. It also highlights the social differences that existed between the founding members of the Edinburgh and Glasgow...
Touche, Niven & Co.;George Armistead & Co.;Brown, Bornhofft & Co.;John F. Forbes;William P. Field & Co.;McLaren, Goode & Co.;Morton & Gottenstratter;Musgrave & Co.;Richter & Co.;E. J. Shorrock & Co.;Snyder, Ellinger, & Davies;White & Currie;Charles...
The full title is: "The first forty years": A chronology of the more-important events in the hisory of the firm of Touche, Niven & Co. from its organizaton on March 1, 1900 to September 30, 1940; Five supplements bring the chronology up to August...