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...
This paper traces development in the accounting literature, circa 1909-1933, of, dominant support for contra-equity presentation of treasury stock, and relates this overview to prominent current arguments for selective asset treatment. Classic...
May, George Oliver, 1875-1961;Paton, William Andrew, 1889-1991
The paper presents a synopsis of the principles and theoretical dispositions of May and Paton on selected areas of accounting; in particular, income determination and valuation.
After urgent invitations by,the editors, W. A. Paton has sent us some recollecions of the circumstances leading to his interest in accounting, and of his experience as a writer in this field. The editors have added a bibliography of his major...
Abstracts for the following dissertations are provided: The Effect of Scientific Management on the Development of the Standard Cost System by Marc Epstein. The Archive of Laches: Prosperous Farmers of the Fayum in the Second Century by Whitney S....
Bentley, Harry C. (Harry Clark), 1877-1967;Sterrett, Joseph Edmund, 1870-1934;Mason, Perry Empey, 1899-1964;Montgomery, Robert Hiester, 1872-1953
Biographical sketches of Harry Clark Bentley by Edward James Gurry; Joseph E. Sterrrett by Barbara Dubis Marino; Perry Mason by Roscoe Eugene Bryson, Jr.; Robert Hiester Montgomery by Anthony T. Krzystofik.
The conceptual and theoretical development of cost accounting has been at a standstill for several decades, despite its poor state and drastic changes in its environment. The concept of cost itself and related concepts are both unclear and...
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...
The first book on the subject of budgeting, and the first textbook on managerial accounting, were both authored by James O. McKinsey, a professor at the University of Chicago. He was also one of the main contributors to the development of...
Books reviewed are: Frederic William Cronhelm, Double Entry by Single Reviewed by Raymond T. Holmes, Jr.; Lawrence Robert Dicksee, Fraudulent Accounting and Fraud in Accounts Reviewed by William G. Mister; Gadis J. Dillon, The Role of Accounting In...
