United States. Armory (Springfield, Mass.);Labor costs -- Accounting;Managerial accounting -- History
The national armory at Springfield was the largest prototype of the modern factory establishment and its accounting controls were described by Alfred Chandler [1977] as the most sophisticated in use before the early 1840s. In spite of that, armory...
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...
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...
Capitalists and financiers;Accounting;Accounting as a profession
Professor Custis suggested that I talk on the ethical obligations of the accountant to the investor. The suggestion offered an opportunity to discuss before a sympathetic audience some of those phases of accounting practice which make it, to me,...
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...
Anecdotes;Accounting -- History -- Bibliography;Accounting -- History -- Correspondence
Subtitles are: Contact Notes; Historical Antecedents; Historical Potpourri; History in Print; Letters; Out of the Past; Research Resources; Through the Ages.
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....
Reckoning boards;Tallies;Accounting machines -- History
How could our ancestors do accounting while they were still illiterate and had no paper? The answer is that they used the tally and the checkerboard. In medieval Europe, the tally was normally a short stick on which notches were cut to represent...
Books reviewed are: Axel Grandell, Redovisningens utvecklingshistoria fran bildskrit tii dator, reviewed by Sandor Aszely; John B. Inglis, My Life and Times, reviewed by Richard A. Scott; Hanns-Martin W. Schoenfeld, Cost Terminology and Cost...
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.
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...
Books reviewed are: Craswell, Allen. Audit Qualifications in Australia 1950 to 1979 Reviewed by Roland L. Madison; J. R. Edwards, Editor, Reporting Fixed Assets in Nineteenth-Century Company Accounts Reviewed by Hans V. Johnson; Louis Goldberg,...
Japan’s rise from a feudalistic economy to a position as a leading industrial power is a result, in part, of two revolutionary changes in its accounting structure. The first change came during the latter part of the nineteenth century as part of...
His paper presents the history of the international efforts to standardize mine accounting between 1895 and 1915. Extractive industries, such as mining and oil and gas, posed especially difficult problems for the accounting profession. In 1895...
Inventories -- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- United States
The legislative history of the allowance of LIFO for tax purposes is documented. The legislative process was structured around veto points of the law and yielded an examination of the political environment out of which the LIFO tax provisions...
This paper provides an analysis of “elite” accounting practitioners during the formative years of the Canadian accounting profession (1880-1930). The social characteristics of this group in comparison with the Canadian population and the links...
Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, one of the most outstanding intellectual figures of our time, died in October at the age of eighty-six. His vast erudition, accompanied with astonishing industry and magnificent style, made him a prolific writer on...
Books reviewed are: Robert R. Locke, The End of the Practical Man: Entrepreneurship and Higher Education in Germany, France and Great Britain, 1880-1940. Review by O. Finley Graves; F. Sewell Bray, Precision and Design in Accountancy Reviewed by...
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...