Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907-1988; Education, Higher -- Mississippi
Prediction that the Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning will dismiss James Silver from his position based on exaggerated and contrived charges
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...
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...