A model of change in twentieth century American accounting is presented. The model describes three-phase cycles, each consisting of a reactive, a proactive, and synthesis phase. The text and Appendix illustrate and attempt to validate the model,...
Auditing -- United States -- History;Railroads -- Accounting -- History
The paper explores the origins of the auditing profession in the United States. It is suggested that the development of the audit function in this country can be traced to reporting by internal and shareholder auditors in the American railroads...
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...
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.
Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation;Prosopography;Accounting -- History
This study explored the citation of pre-1960 literature in a body of contemporary accounting research. In a database of nearly 11,000 citations from 428 source articles, 117 pre-1960 accounting citations were identified. From the set of 413...
Books reviewed are: Malcolm, Alexander. A Treatise of Bookkeeping or Merchants Accounts in the Italian Method of Debtor and Creditor; Mair, John. Bookkeeping Modernized or Merchant Accounts by Double Entry; Mitchell, William. A New and Complete...
Books reviewed are: LaCapra, Dominick.—History Criticism. and Porter, Dale L. The Emergence of the Past-A Theory of Historical Explanation. Reviewed By Barbara D. Merino; Yamey, B. S., Edey, H. C. and Thomson, H. W. Accounting in England and...
Assets (Accounting);Corporations -- Accounting;Financial statements -- United States -- History;Valuations -- Corporations
The paper is a historical study of the asset revaluation movement and the subsequent establishment of the cost basis in the United States. A survey of the corporate report leads to a generalization that the asset revaluations were fundamentally the...
DR Scott was an economist, historian, philosopher, and accountant. Most of all he was a scholar who merged some of the most up-to-date ideas of the 1920s into his book The Cultural Significance of Accounts. He concluded that our culture was in a...
Books reviewed are: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Editor, Managerial Innovation at General Motors Reviewed by Daniel A. Wren; Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Editor, Pioneers in Modern Factory Management Reviewed by Michael F. Pohlen; Nicholas Dopuch and...
n order to better understand the development of accounting research, this paper examines the work of the leading authors of The Accounting Review (Leading Authors) during 1946-1965. An earlier study [Fleming, Graci and Thompson, 1990] concluded...
Roxana mentions that she is not so enthusiastic about travel as she gets older; they have rented out the plantation to freedmen; mentions the trend of plantation owners to rent out their plantations to freedmen; they pay with cotton for their rent;...
The Accounting Review has changed dramatically over the years. The purpose of this study is to document these changes, putting into perspective the articles that are currently published in The Accounting Review. In particular, this study compares...
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...