Announcements are: Working Paper series; Coffman edits series; publication of the History of Accountancy by O. ten Have; History of Accounting, A Reprint Collection; Selected Classics in the History of Bookkeeping; Now available Monograph #1, A...
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...
Henry Rand Hatfield (1866-1945) was one of the early leaders of accounting education in American universities and perhaps the earliest individual most well known for his efforts in accounting history. The tribute includes a translation of Zwei...
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...
Income accounting -- History;Financial statements -- History
The origin of income smoothing in literature has been attributed to different authors in recent years. However, the attributions have been made based on research using a simple analysis of the term "income smoothing". This study considers the...
