Announcements include table of contents for Accounting and Business Research spring 1990, Accounting and Finance May 1990, The Accounting Review April 1990, Contemporary Accounting Research fall 1989, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal...
The Accounting Review has changed dramatically over the years. The purpose of this study is to document these changes, putting into perspective the articles that are currently published in The Accounting Review. In particular, this study compares...
Announcements include Hourglass Award, table of contents for Accounting and Business Research autumn 1989, Accounting and Finance Nov. 1989, The Accounting Review Oct. 1989, Contemporary Accounting Research spring 1989. The individuals listed...
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...
Kuhn, Thomas S. Structure of Scientific Revolutions;Paradigms (Social sciences);Accounting -- History
Distinct parallels exist between the historical evolution of scientific disciplines, as explained in Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and the historical evolution of the accounting discipline. These parallels become apparent...
Abstracts of: The Behavioral Implications of the Stewardship Concept and Its Effects on Financial Reporting by Rosita Chen; Product Costing Under Conditions of Idle Plant Capacity by Edwin Bartenstein; The Impact of Blue-sky Regulations on the New...
Books reviewed are: Axel Grandell, Redovisningens utvecklingshistoria fran bildskrit tii dator, reviewed by Sandor Aszely; John B. Inglis, My Life and Times, reviewed by Richard A. Scott; Hanns-Martin W. Schoenfeld, Cost Terminology and Cost...
Bentley, Harry C. (Harry Clark), 1877-1967;Sterrett, Joseph Edmund, 1870-1934;Mason, Perry Empey, 1899-1964;Montgomery, Robert Hiester, 1872-1953
Biographical sketches of Harry Clark Bentley by Edward James Gurry; Joseph E. Sterrrett by Barbara Dubis Marino; Perry Mason by Roscoe Eugene Bryson, Jr.; Robert Hiester Montgomery by Anthony T. Krzystofik.
Announcements include table of contents for Abacus March 1989, Accounting and Business Research winter 1988, Journal of Accounting Education spring 1989, Accounting and Finance May 1989, The Accounting Review Jan. 1989, Contemporary Accounting...
Salvador de Solózano, Bartolomé, 1544-1596;Accounting -- Spain -- History
Until very recently almost nothing was known about the life of Bartolomé Salvador de Solórzano, the author of the first Spanish treatise on double-entry bookkeeping. This paper presents the results of further research on this subject and...
His paper presents the history of the international efforts to standardize mine accounting between 1895 and 1915. Extractive industries, such as mining and oil and gas, posed especially difficult problems for the accounting profession. In 1895...
New Orleans Savings Bank;Banks and banking -- Accounting;Banks and banking -- Louisiana -- History;Account books -- History
This is a case study of the history, operating practices and financial reporting system of an antebellum-era financial institution. The New Orleans Savings Bank, which served the people of Louisiana from 1827 to 1842, was founded as a philanthropic...
Books reviewed are: Robert R. Locke, The End of the Practical Man: Entrepreneurship and Higher Education in Germany, France and Great Britain, 1880-1940. Review by O. Finley Graves; F. Sewell Bray, Precision and Design in Accountancy Reviewed by...
Announcements include Hourglass Award and table of contents for Accounting and Business Research autumn 1988, Journal of Accounting Education fall 1988, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability 1988 Vol. 1, no.2, Accounting and Finance Nov. 1988,...