Hechstetter, Daniel, the Younger, 1565?-1640;Copper mines and mining -- Costs;Account books -- History;Mines Royal Company
The growing literature on the history of cost and management accounting has left virtually unexplored the developments prior to the British industrial revolution. Recently the business notebooks of Daniel Hechstetter, the German manager of an...
East India Company;Financial statements -- England -- History
A recent investigation into the archives of the English East India Company has produced the earliest known classified balance of accounts. Dated May 1, 1782, this statement predates the model balance sheet prescribed by the Companies Act of 1856 by...
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...
Accounting -- History -- Methodology;Accounting Historians Journal
Although this is the first issue of The Accounting Historians Journal that has been published by the new editorial team, the current editors and reviewers have been processing manuscripts for nearly a year. During that time, 40 manuscripts have...
Announcements include Hourglass Award, table of contents for Accounting and Business Research autumn 1989, Accounting and Finance Nov. 1989, The Accounting Review Oct. 1989, Contemporary Accounting Research spring 1989. The individuals listed...
Osamu Kojima, Emeritus Professor of Kwansei Gakuin University (Kobe, Japan), died on February 21, 1989, at the age of 76. One of Professor Kojima's major contributions was to examine accounting history in Europe by studying original materials and...
Osamu Kojima, Emeritus Professor of Kwansei Gakuin University (Kobe, Japan), died on February 21, 1989, at the age of 76. One of Professor Kojima's major contributions was to examine accounting history in Europe by studying original materials and...
1989 Accounting Hall of Fame induction: Yuji Ijiri; Introduction by William W. Cooper (Nadya Kozmetsky Scott Centennial Fellow)and Induction Citation by Thomas J. Burns (Professor and Chairman Faculty Committee on Accounting Hall of Fame The Ohio...
Academy of Accounting Historians -- History;Matthews, David -- Portraits;Portraits -- Matthews, David;Previts, Gary John -- Portraits;Sweeney, Robert B. -- Portraits;Portraits -- Previts, Gary John;Portraits --Sweeney, Robert B.;Roberts, Alfred...
This paper traces the evolution of The Academy of Accounting Historians from its formation in 1973 through 1988. The Academy has evolved from an idea to an important international organization.
United States Steel Corporation;Depreciation;Replacement of industrial equipment -- Accounting
This paper examines the magnitude of the reporting bias inherent in the historical cost accounting of a firm's physical capital. Reported depreciation data pertaining to U.S. Steel Corporation (currently USX) between 1939 and 1987 are compared with...
Developments in accounting methodology during the 1960s are contrasted with concurrent developments in philosophy of science. The 1960s was a decade characterized by the widespread adoption of “the scientific method” in accounting methodology....
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...
Announcements include table of contents for Abacus March 1989, Accounting and Business Research winter 1988, Journal of Accounting Education spring 1989, Accounting and Finance May 1989, The Accounting Review Jan. 1989, Contemporary Accounting...
This article examines the importance of the treatment H. K. Hathaway gave to product costing issues in his depression-era writings. The paper compares Hathaway's approach to product costing with the contributions of Alexander Hamilton Church, H....
Sweeney, Henry W. (Henry Whitcomb), b. 1898-;Schmalenbach, E. (Eugen), 1873-1955;Mahlberg, Walter;Accounting -- Effect of inflation on;Graves, Oliver Finley
Graves [1987] very competent and well-documented descriptions of Mahlberg’s and Schmalenbach’s Goldmarkbilanz techniques should raise no objections on technical grounds. He ably captures and amplifies the mechanical aspects of these major...
Accounting Hall of Fame (Ohio State University. Fisher College of Business);Accountants -- United States -- Biography
The Accounting Hall of Fame was established in 1950 at The Ohio State University by the Faculty of Accounting in the College of Administrative Science and with the approval of the Board of Trustees of the University, for the purpose of honoring...
New Orleans Savings Bank;Banks and banking -- Accounting;Banks and banking -- Louisiana -- History;Account books -- History
This is a case study of the history, operating practices and financial reporting system of an antebellum-era financial institution. The New Orleans Savings Bank, which served the people of Louisiana from 1827 to 1842, was founded as a philanthropic...
Announcements include Hourglass Award and table of contents for Accounting and Business Research autumn 1988, Journal of Accounting Education fall 1988, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability 1988 Vol. 1, no.2, Accounting and Finance Nov. 1988,...
Books reviewed are: Sokolow, Jaroslaw W., The History of Accounting Thought [Istocia razwitija buchgaltierskowo uczieta] Reviewed by Alicia Jaruga; J.L. Meij, Editor, Depreciation and Replacement Policy Reviewed by Doris M. Cook; Richard...
