Previts and Sheldahl have suggested] that Marshs Science of Double-Entry Book-Keeping, originating in 1830, marked an important early step in a long transition from traditional merchants accounts toward an accounting system better suited to an...
About ten years ago, the late Hugli1 published in the Zeitschrift für Buchhaltung an essay about the origin of the natural theory of accounting, usually known as the theory of two series of accounts. In this article, he attributed the development...
Announcements include: advertisements for Accounting Historians Journal Vol. 1-3, Accounting History Classics Series, Selected Classics in the History of Bookkeeping, and Working Paper Series. Also included are: price list for the Academy's...
Corporation reports -- Study and teaching;Financial statements -- Study and teaching;Accounting -- Study and teaching
In this article, it is suggested that accounting education may be enhanced by the use of published historical accounting materials, such as annual reports. Comparing such materials with modern reports serves to reinforce the notion that accounting...
Jones, Thomas, 1804-1889;Foster, Benjamin Franklin, ca. 1803-1859
Thomas Jones and Benjamin Franklin Foster were two early American accounting textbook authors and teachers. Their careers, spanning the middle of the nineteenth century, occurred during a time of relatively little professional activity and...
