Accounting -- China -- History;Accounting -- Hawaii -- History;Quipu -- History
The use of the "quipu" for accounting purposes has been primarily attributed to the Peruvian Inca culture in the days of old. Documented evidence, however, provides that early Hawaiians and ancient Chinese predated the Incan usage. Studies...
Accounting -- Education;Accounting -- Examinations, Questions, etc. -- New York;Accounting -- New York -- Examinations, Questions, etc.
The table of contents lists the following: Preface; Certified public accountant law; Accountants credentials; General requirements; Preliminary education; Certified public accountant; Junior accountant;Calendar of examinations; Outline of...
Details various family members' activities & Anna's recent tragedies, probably illness and death of family members; also concerns the correspondant's daughter's position as principal of the school on the Vanderbilt's Bilmore estate.
Reckoning boards;Tallies;Accounting machines -- History
How could our ancestors do accounting while they were still illiterate and had no paper? The answer is that they used the tally and the checkerboard. In medieval Europe, the tally was normally a short stick on which notches were cut to represent...
Ice industry -- Cost accounting;Tudor Ice Company;Tudor, Frederic, 1783-1864
This paper describes selected accounting records of the Tudor Ice Company which were devised to manage and control the far-flung business activities of Frederic Tudor, a 19th century entrepreneur who has been called America's first monopolist....
Forges de Stain-Maurice, Les;Managerial accounting -- Canada -- History;Managerial accounting -- Case studies
From a capital budget, an operating budget and a partnership agreement prepared almost 250 years ago in New France, a cash Budget and balance sheets are prepared to help in an analysis of the viability of the company. This investigation into the...
New England accounting historians are, of course, lucky. We sit on a whole mess of accounting dumps-state, city, town, local historical societies, museums, and private collections-not to speak of the large college collections. Much of it isn't even...
