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.
John Mair, in 1752, stated, "Barter, or the exchange of goods for goods, is nothing else but buying and selling blended together." This statement, for all its seeming simplicity, is an excellent expression of the confusion which has accompanied the...
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...
Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation;Accounting -- Research -- Methodology;Empiricism
Little or nothing is said of empiricism in U.S. accounting literature during the first half of the twentieth century in accounting history literature. The objectives of this study are threefold: (1) to determine if an empirical accounting...
