n order to better understand the development of accounting research, this paper examines the work of the leading authors of The Accounting Review (Leading Authors) during 1946-1965. An earlier study [Fleming, Graci and Thompson, 1990] concluded...
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...
Announcements include Hourglass award and table of contents for Accounting and Business Research winter 1990, summer 1991, and autumn 1991, Accounting and Finance May 1991, The Accounting Review April 1988, and Contemporary Accounting Research...
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...
Anecdotes;Accounting -- History -- Bibliography;Accounting -- History -- Correspondence
Subtitles are: Contact Notes; Historical Antecedents: Historical Potpourri; History in Print; Letters; Out of the Past; Research Resources; Through the Ages
Announcements include table of contents for Accounting and Business Research winter 1991, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal 1991 Vol. 4 no. 4 and 1992 Vol. 5 no. 1
Textile industry -- Accounting;Cost accounting -- History
Several authors have suggested that a particular managerial component was needed before cost accounting could be fully used for accountability and disciplinary purposes. They argue that the marriage of managerialism and accounting first occurred in...
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...
Accounting -- Societies, etc.;Learned institutions and societies -- Australia;International Accountants Corporation and Bookkeepers Institute of Australasia;International Institute of Accountants
In 1928, the beginnings were laid for the International Accountants Corporation and Bookkeepers Institute of Australasia. This was followed in a few years by the International Institute of Accountants. This was an ambitious move to internationalize...
Accounting -- China -- History;Bookkeeping -- China -- History
This paper examines the origination and evolution of Chinese double-entry- bookkeeping from the fifteenth century to eighteenth century. It demonstrates that Chinese merchants and bankers invented some types of double-entry spontaneously around the...
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...
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...
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 11th. Company A
Letter from Richard C. Bridges to his sister answering her reproach for not having received his letters; notes a dearth of provisions; refers to fights in the West; describes preparations for a battle on the Potomac and the sinking of a schooner;...
