Financial statements, consolidated -- Great Britain -- History;Holding companies -- Great Britain -- History;PK Limited;RB Limited
The most recent effort at restating the auditor's standard report, SAS 58, is the most comprehensive statement of the auditor's role that has ever been adopted. It is an acknowledgment that the previous report had become an ineffective...
Books reviewed are: Arthur Lowes Dickinson, Accounting Practice and Procedure, Reviewed by Jack L. Krogstad; Institute of Chartered Accountants in England, Historical Accounting Literature, Reviewed by Adrian L. Kline; Arthur H. Woolf, A Short...
Accounting firms -- United States -- History;Accounting -- United States -- History -- 20th century
This paper examines the growth and changing role of the accounting profession in the United States from 1900 to 1990 with special emphasis on "Big Eight" accounting firms. Major political, economic, and social events of the period and their...
Numerals -- History;Accounting -- History;Bookkeeping -- History
The general adoption of "Arabic" numerals by European bookkeepers occurred at least five hundred years after their introduction to the scholarly world. The early availability yet late adoption of this numeration is shown to be due to several...
Municipal budgets -- History;Budget in business -- HistorylBudget -- United States -- History
This paper examines certain interactions between American government and business which resulted in important innovations in the areas of budgeting and cost accounting early in the twentieth century. The evidence suggests that budgeting methods...
Gezel, Willem van;Accounting -- Study and teaching
Until the last century, a theory of valuation which must essentially rest upon an established theory of accounts, could not be adequately developed. All of this suggests the importance of establishing an understanding as to when and how a theory of...
Meredith, James, 1933-; Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987; College integration -- Mississippi -- Oxford; University of Mississippi -- History;
Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett with others including the Mississippi Highway Patrol walking on the University of Mississippi campus to stop James Meredith from enrolling. Also pictured are Senator Brad Dye and Representative Walter Hester of...
Harrison, Pat, 1881-1941; United States. Congress. Senate; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; George, Walter F. (Walter Franklin), 1878-1957; La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion), 1895-1953;
Harrison, Pat, 1881-1941; United States. Congress. Senate; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance; Ashurst, Henry Fountain, 1874-1962; Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956;...
Harrison, Pat, 1881-1941; United States. Congress. Senate; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; George, Walter F. (Walter Franklin), 1878-1957;
Harrison, Pat, 1881-1941; United States. Congress. Senate; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; George, Walter F. (Walter Franklin), 1878-1957;
Harrison, Pat, 1881-1941; United States. Congress. Senate; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; George, Walter F. (Walter Franklin), 1878-1957; Sheppard, Morris, 1875-1941; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945;
Typed description attatched; looking at President Roosevelt's measure creating an "Arsenal for Democracy."