Books reviewed are: V. A. Mazdorov, History of Accounting Evolution in USSR (1917-1972) Reviewed by Yoshiro Kimizuka and Akira Mori; kazuo Kawahara, The Bookkeeping Methods of the Edo Era in Japan, Reviewed by Ryoji Inouye; Shigeo Aoki, editor,...
Books reviewed are: (1) Rollo G. Silver, Publishing in Boston, 1726-57, The Accounts of Daniel Henchman, Reviewed by William Holmes. (2) J. Gambino and John R. Palmer, Management Accounting in Colonial America, Reviewed by Edward N. Coffman. (3) An...
Books -- Conservation and repair;Manuscripts -- Conservation and repair
The accounting historian's part in the wider preservation (i.e., keeping of old documents) is to conduct a campaign to persuade people?? this include librarians who are forced to prune their stocks of material through lack of space?? to destroy old...
Accounting -- Japan -- History
Bookkeeping -- Japan -- History
Double-entry bookkeeping is believed to have originated in mediveal Italy and, as it developed, writers on the subject such as Luca Pacioli helped spread the system to the rest of Europe in the paths of Italian trade. In those countries there were...
Books reviewed are: Edward J. Kane, The S & L Insurance Mess: How Did It Happen?; Lawrence J. White, The S & L Debacle. Public Policy Lessons for Bank and Thrift Regulation; Martin Mayer, The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery. The Collapse of the Savings...
Freeman, Samuel, 1743-1831. The Town Officer;Municipal finance -- Accounting
Recent research has produced the earliest known treatise on Accounting written by an American. Samuel Freeman's The Town Officer [1791] is significant in that it recommended double-entry fund accounting for municipalities. The paper analyzes and...
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...
Books reviewed are: Dale L. Flesher, The Institute of Internal Auditors: 50 Years of Progress Through Sharing Reviewed by Frank E. Ryerson III; O. Finley Graves, ed., The Costing Heritage: Studies in Honor of S. Paul Garner Reviewed by Jack Ruhl;...
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...
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...
Books reviewed are: R. Dan Brumbaugh, Jr., Thrifts Under Siege. Paul Zane Pilzer, Other Peoples Money. Stephen Pizzo, Mary Flicker, and Paul Muolo, Inside Job: The Looting of Americas Savings and Loans. A Review Essay: The Savings and Loan Crisis...
Financial statements -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain;Accountants -- Professional ethics -- Great Britain
Ethics is understood as the worthiness of the rights and needs for accounting information of contending groups in society. Company law is viewed as a means by which users of financial statements rights and needs have been redressed, and which users...
The many scholarly works of the late Professor Federigo Melis are perhaps not as well known in the English speaking world as on the Continent. This special tribute, reflecting the combined skills of three outstanding accounting historians, Dean...
