The editors of the Journal have chosen in this issue to reprint the comments of two distinguished speakers, Thomas Cullen Roberts and James G. Cannon, on the occasion of the annual meeting of The American Association of Public Accountants at the...
As published on pp. 116-124, Twenty-First Anniversary Year-Book, (1908) of the American Association of Public Accountants (AAPA), forerunner of the American Institute of CPAs, these two addresses were presented at the AAPA annual banquet on October...
Sweeney, Henry W. (Henry Whitcomb), b. 1898-; Scott, DR, 1887-1954;Canning, John Bennett;de Paula, Frederic Rudolf Mackley, 1882-
Short biographical sketches of Henry Whitcom Sweeney by A.N. Mosich, DR Scott by James R. Morton, John Bennett Canning by William Robert Smith, and F.R.M. de Paula by Stephen A. Zeff.
Recent archeological research offers revolutionary insight about the precursor of abstract counting and pictographic as well as ideographic writing. This precursor was a data processing system in which simple (and later complex) clay tokens of...
This paper traces in descriptive fashion some of the developments of thought about capital maintenance during this century. The adverse consequences of neglecting the subject are mentioned after a basic review of the concepts. Contrasts among the...
L.N. Dantzler Company;Dantzler (L.N.) Company;Ten Mile Lumber Company;Native Lumber Company;Taxation -- United States -- Law and Legislation;Financial statements -- History
The purpose of this paper is to examine the financial accounting records of a Mississippi timber company and its subsidiaries in light of the dynamic tax environment of the period 1905 to 1925. The financial accounting records and correspondence...
Biography as a type of accounting history is worthy of research effort. However, it is very important that the researcher realize that he is undertaking a formidable task. The biographer should study the basic psychological and behavioral patterns...
Accounting historians, familiar with the evolution of income determination theory are aware fo the host of early writers who became embroiled in the issue of interest as a cost.
Accounting -- History -- Bibliography;Journal of Accountancy
In late 1985, members of the Academy of Accounting Historians were invited to participate in the centennial celebration of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in 1987 by submitting essays on historical accounting topics for...
This paper examines the probative capacity of accounting records as explicated in the accounting literature of early-modern Spain. Several early examples of Hispanic legal texts constitute the principal sources. The chief findings to emerge from...
Voluntary health agencies -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States;Charities -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States
This article chronicles and compares the attempts made over the years by Voluntary Health and Welfare Organizations (VHWO), accountants and accounting bodies to determine VHWO accounting principles. Also discussed are the events that led to the...
Sweeney, Henry W. (Henry Whitcomb), b. 1898-;Schmalenbach, E. (Eugen), 1873-1955;Mahlberg, Walter;Accounting -- Effect of inflation on
In his book Stabilized Accounting of 1936, Henry Sweeney differentiated his indexation model for accounting for inflation from the French and German inflation-accounting models of the 1920s by describing the European methods as "usually quite...
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company;Corporate governance -- United States;
Presenting evidence from a 19th century corporation, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company (C&O), the paper shows that issues of corporate governance have existed since the first corporations were established in the U.S. The C&O used a stockholder...
Numbers -- Egypt -- History;Numbers in the Bible;Accounting -- Egypt -- History
In this paper the capacity limits of technological devices used in ancient Egypt are used to explain the Biblical phrase that in accounting for grain the Egyptians ran out of numbers.
The common abbreviation for the accounting term debit is a puzzling one—Dr. Today, particularly with our depersonalized treatment of the accounting or bookkeeping debit, there is no obvious clue as to why there is an r in debit at all. An...
Tax collection -- Rome -- History;Tax collection -- Israel -- History
The Jews used bars and rings of gold and silver as money prior to using coins. Syrian, Roman, and Jewish coins were used during the time of Christ. The Roman Government imposed a tremendous tax burden upon its subjects. The people of Israel also...
Douglas, William O. (William Orville), 1898-1980;Securities and Exchange Commission;United States. Securities and Exchange Commission;Financial statements -- History
As an SEC Commissioner, William O. Douglas favored active SEC participation in the development of rules of accounting for financial reporting under the Securities Acts. A retrospective letter dated September 29, 1973 indicates that the pre-War SEC...
