Books reviewed are: LaCapra, Dominick.—History Criticism. and Porter, Dale L. The Emergence of the Past-A Theory of Historical Explanation. Reviewed By Barbara D. Merino; Yamey, B. S., Edey, H. C. and Thomson, H. W. Accounting in England and...
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants--History
In the article the author commemorates the contributions of 14 leaders who have bettered the profession over the first century of American accounting. Of these 14, four men are highlighted: Robert H. Montgomery, George O. May, William A. Paton and...
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...
Accounting -- History;Accounting -- Study and teaching
The object of all this review of historical apocrypha is really quite simple - historical statements made by non-historians, in particular, must be challenged by historians.
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...
Cost accounting -- History;Renold Chains Limited;Church, A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton), 1866-1936;Robotics
Knowledge of accounting history can be a great aid in solving accounting problems of today and tomorrow. One example of this is the use of a cost diagram of Church and Renold and the writings of Church to solve the problem of accounting for robots.
Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation;Agency (Law);Commercial agents -- Study and teaching
With the advent of new bibliographic data sources and new analytical techniques, accounting historians may now trace the development of accounting thought with the aid of bibliometric analysis. The objective of this paper is to discuss a social...
Accounting -- Effect of inflation on;Income accounting
The paper reviews events and trends since 1961,when the author incautiously forecast a possible decline in the importance of income measurement. He finds that little has changed in the intervening 25 years, and the forecast has not been borne out...
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.
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...
Announcements include: advertisements for the following monographs, Selected Classics in the History of Bookkeeping, Accounting History Classics Series, Working Paper Series, price list for Academy publications, and table of contents for Accounting...
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.
This article explores factors in the financial, legal and social environments that have significantly influenced the development of corporate audit committees. Particular emphasis is given to the actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Income tax -- United States -- Accounting;Corporations -- United States -- Taxation
In this paper, the authoritative literature is reviewed chronologically to trace the development of interperiod tax allocation from its inception in the early 1940s to late 1985. The study reveals an evolution from acceptance of either the...
Gold mines and mining -- Accounting -- History;Silver mines and mining -- Accounting -- History;Consolidated Virginia Mining Company;California Mining Company;Portland Mining Company
This study found evidence which supports the thesis that cost accounting techniques evolved rapidly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The cost accounting system employed by the leading mines of the Comstock Lode during the 1870's...
Castillo, Diego del. Tratado de Cuentas;Executors and administrators -- Spain -- Accounting -- History;Estates -- Spain -- History
This paper examines an early modern contribution to the literature on stewardship accounting, the Tratado de Cuentas or Treatise on Accounts, by Diego del Castillo, a sixteenth-century Spanish jurist.
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...
