Japan is one of the oldest nations in the world and yet one of the "newest." Western bookkeeping methods came in on the top of the native indigenous method which had been firmly established for centuries. Both of these systems developed quite...
This article outlines the lives and background of the main writers who were active in the 18th century period of ’scottish Ascendancy’ in accounting texts. The impressive publications produced by this group are detailed and the question of why...
Kohler, Eric Louis, 1892-1976;Springer, Durand W.;Andersen, Arthur Edward, 1885-1947;American Association of University Instructors of Accounting
A quick summary of Eric L. Kohler's observations, participation, and survival in the midst of dynamic undercurrents during the 1920's and early 1930's, featuring the reform work of Durand W. Springer, Arthur Andersen, and the American Association...
Communicating analytical and explanatory notions via examples is largely dependent upon characterization of popular knowledge. Analogies are but one of the important ways of conveying "meaning" in an expression.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board--a "bold new effort" in self regulation by the private sector--became the official rule- making body for financial accounting and reporting on July 1, 1973. The Wheat Report, Establishing Financial...
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...
The historical review of the evolution of accounting principles for foreign currency translation reveals that current practice is based on principles which have been developed during periods characterized by (1) wars and political instability, (2)...
Accountants -- Biography;American Technical Society. Accountancy and Business Management
A list of the forty-six accountants who were authors or consultants for the seven volume encyclopedia--Accountancy and Business Management published by the American Technical Society in 1909.
Indeed the challenges facing accounting historians--namely to initiate meaningful applications of quantitative analysis, to recapture a "lost century" of accounting history and to build toward a more complete literature about the history of...
Cost Accounting -- History;Hamilton, Robert, 1743-1829. Introduction to Merchandise
Almost contemporaneously with The Wealth of Nations, a treatise on bookkeeping and accounts was published which shows a lucid awareness of several cost issues, especially of the futility of attempting to allocate common or joint cost. This book is...
Books reviewed are: Reflections OF A RenaissanceScholar: Carl Devine's Essays in Accounting Theory, Volumes I-V, Reviewed by Edward Arrington; Hall, William D. Accounting and Auditing: Thoughts on Forty Years in Practice and Education. Authur...
Contemporary Accounting Research;Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation;Accounting -- Research -- Methodology
Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) has expanded substantially in scope over the past two decades. This paper provides an overview of these trends using both quantitative techniques from statistics and exploratory data analysis (EDA). Articles...
Boatbuilding -- Accounting;Boatbuilding -- Costs;Canoes and canoeing -- Costs;Rushton, J. Henry;Cost accounting -- History
J. Henry Rushton was the preeminent American builder of canoes and small pleasure boats in the late nineteenth-century. Beginning in the mid 1890s, Rushton personally maintained books of cost records and cost finding rules for his boat-building...
Books reviewed are: Ellis Mast Sowell, The Evolution of the Theories and Techniques of Standard Costs Reviewed by Kenneth S. Most; James Ole Winjum, The Role of Accounting in the Economic Development of England: 1500-1750 Reviewed by Marc J....
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...
Books reviewed are: Malcolm, Alexander. A Treatise of Bookkeeping or Merchants Accounts in the Italian Method of Debtor and Creditor; Mair, John. Bookkeeping Modernized or Merchant Accounts by Double Entry; Mitchell, William. A New and Complete...
