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...
Dissertations abstracted are: An Examination of the Role of Eric Louis Kohler in the Development of the Accounting Profession by Nancy Kay Adams Humma; Abuse of Power: New York City and the Formation of Municipal Law, 1846-1866 by Jeffrey Wood...
Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation;Accounting -- Research -- Methodology;Empiricism
Little or nothing is said of empiricism in U.S. accounting literature during the first half of the twentieth century in accounting history literature. The objectives of this study are threefold: (1) to determine if an empirical accounting...
Confederate States of America -- Social conditions
Letter from Richard C. Bridges to his sister describing life in Oxford; while not a member of the "University Blues," he has a sense of foreboding for the new year.