We have clear evidence that interest in accounting history is growing, that more good articles are being submitted than ever before, and that subscribers are getting exceptional value for money. May this happy state of affairs continue.
Announcements are: Working Paper series; Coffman edits series; publication of the History of Accountancy by O. ten Have; History of Accounting, A Reprint Collection; Selected Classics in the History of Bookkeeping; Now available Monograph #1, A...
Announcements include Hourglass Award and table of contents for Accounting and Business Research spring 1992 and summer 1992, Contemporary Accounting Research fall 1992 and Call for Papers, Conference on Biographical research in Accounting and the...
Accounting -- History;Accounting -- History -- Research;Accounting -- History -- Bibliography
Over 200 books and articles on accounting history published 1969-1977 are listed in an annotated bibliography and assessed in Part I. Part II makes the following suggestions for future research: (i) more bibliographies (ii) influence of the...
The evolution of the procedure of comparing the column total of additions (footings) of the journal with the debit and credit totals of the same time period in the ledger is discussed as it reflects the contributions of E. T. Jones of England.
Studies by French scholars of ancient Egyptian and Babylonian records purport to describe accounting methods in use over two thousand years ago. The number of documents translated and analyzed is too small to justify such generalizations. The...
Pacioli, Luca, ca. 1445-1517;Pacioli, Luca, ca. 1445-1517 -- Portraits;Portraits -- Pacioli, Luca, ca. 1445-1517
This article, first delivered as a paper at the 1980 World Congress of Accounting Historians in London,1 presents the results of three decades of the author's research in pursuit of a true image of Luca Pacioli. Portraits, sculptures, and sketches...
International Accounting History Symposium;Comite International des historians de la comptabilite
During the period October 8-12, 1970, representatives of nearly twenty national accounting groups met in Brussels for the First International Congress of Accounting Historians.
Announcements include: Academy of Accounting Historians 1988 accounting history manuscript award, the Hourglass Award announcement, table of contents for Accounting and Business Research summer 1987, The Accounting Review, July 1987, Accounting and...
This bibliography is a continuation of those published in R. H. Parker (ed.) Bibliographies for Accounting Historians (New York, Arno Press, 1980). It has been drawn up upon the same principles and the arrangement is the same. Most items date from...
World Congress of Accounting Historians (5th : 1988 : Sydney : Australia)
Writing now in the autumn of the Northern Hemisphere — and looking back a few short weeks to Sydney and the Fifth World Congress of Accounting Historians — it all seems so distant but ever more memorable. The efforts of Murray Wells, Alan...
Announcements include Hourglass Award and table of contents for Accounting and Business Research autumn 1988, Journal of Accounting Education fall 1988, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability 1988 Vol. 1, no.2, Accounting and Finance Nov. 1988,...
