Books reviewed are: Thomas J. Burns and Edward N. Coffman, The Accounting Hall of Fame: Profiles of Forty-one Members Reviewed by Kathryn Verreault; C. W. DeMond, Price Waterhouse & Co. In America Reviewed by Robert Jennings, Jr.; Esteban Hernandez...
John C. Colt was the author of a successful bookkeeping text which had many school adoptions and at least 46 editions. During an argument with Samuel Adams, his publisher, over the cost of his 5th edition, Colt killed Adams with a hatchet....
Accounting -- Standards -- United States -- History;American Institute of Accountants
This paper traces the development of the "sixth rule," the last of the six rules which the membership of the American Institute of Accountants approved at the 1934 annual meeting. The sixth rule appeared suddenly in the Report of the Special...
Nonprofit organizations -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States;Finance, public -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States
This article presents a condensed history of significant post 1900 developments in nonbusiness financial accounting practices and standards, and highlights some of the major issues in the recent increase in interest and activity in nonbusiness...
Auditing -- History;Dicksee, Lawrence Robert, 1864-1932. Auditing;Montgomery, Robert Hiester, 1872-1953. Auditing
Audit emphasis this century has swung away from chasing entries through the books to values being "fairly presented" and then back again. Now, however, what was "chasing entries through the books" has become "verifying internal controls." This...
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...
A model of change in twentieth century American accounting is presented. The model describes three-phase cycles, each consisting of a reactive, a proactive, and synthesis phase. The text and Appendix illustrate and attempt to validate the model,...
This paper traces the development of pension accounting theory and practice to 1930. It analyzes the early development of pension accounting theory and practice, examines explanations of the nature of pension costs, and reports the results of a...
Financial statements -- Standards -- History;Accounting -- Standards -- History
The debate among accounting theoreticians as to the content and usefulness of the Financial Accounting Standards Board's concept statements and its conceptual framework project can better be understood if a perspective of prior "framework" efforts...
lt takes a long time for an editor to have a noticeable effect on the contents of a publication such as The Accounting Historians Journal. The Accounting Historians Journal has demonstrated standards of accounting scholarship and intellectual...
Books reviewed are:Donald R. Adams, Jr., Finance and Enterprise in Early America: A Study of Stephen Girards Bank 1812-1831 Reviewed by Michelle Hamer; Fred Bateman, Editor, Business in the New South: A Historical Perspective (Reviewed by Horace R....
Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915;Cost accounting -- History
We respond to those issues that M. C. Wells raised in his comments on our article. We found that his comments on the association of scientific management and cost accounting, and on Taylor's historical role in cost accounting were debatable, and...
Income tax -- History;Talmud -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
A passage from the Talmud concerning income tax policy is examined. The attempt is then made to apply the policy to a hypothetical situation and to see whether the policy is relevant to the modern era.
Accounting writers have invariably referred to the accounting literature of the 1960s and 1970s as the earliest source of discussion about the impact of budgets upon manager behaviour. This short paper identifies a number of accounting writers of...
This paper concentrates on accounting aspects arising from the development of the railways. Railways in nineteenth century Britain had a major influence in reshaping some of the legislative procedures in parliament, the development of the capital...
The article draws attention to the vast archive of accounting records from ancient Mesopotamia available to historians, and the advances in Assyriology which have taken place since the revival of interest in the origins of recorded history....
