Depreciation allowances -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain;Depreciation allowances -- Law and legislation -- United States
This paper examines and contrasts nineteenth century case law in Great Britain and the United States in which courts had to decide whether to accept accounting concepts having to do with making provisions for depreciation, amortization and...
Hammurabi, King of Babylonia;Code of Hammurabi;Commercial Law -- Babylonia
From sections of the Code of Hammurabi, it appears that records on clay tablets, corresponding to our modern business papers, were required by law in most important transactions.
Pacioli, Luca, ca. 1445-1517;Pacioli, Luca, ca. 1445-1517 -- Portraits;Portraits -- Pacioli, Luca, ca. 1445-1517
This article, first delivered as a paper at the 1980 World Congress of Accounting Historians in London,1 presents the results of three decades of the author's research in pursuit of a true image of Luca Pacioli. Portraits, sculptures, and sketches...
Books reviewed are: Frederic William Cronhelm, Double Entry by Single Reviewed by Raymond T. Holmes, Jr.; Lawrence Robert Dicksee, Fraudulent Accounting and Fraud in Accounts Reviewed by William G. Mister; Gadis J. Dillon, The Role of Accounting In...
John C. Colt was the author of a successful bookkeeping text which had many school adoptions and at least 46 editions. During an argument with Samuel Adams, his publisher, over the cost of his 5th edition, Colt killed Adams with a hatchet....
Accounting -- Southern states -- History;Bookkeeping -- Southern states -- History;Plantations -- Louisiana -- History;Minor, William J.
Very little information exists on the accounting methods and procedures of the great cotton and sugar plantations in the Southeastern United States during the period preceding the Civil War. Fortunately, one sugar planter, William J. Minor of...
Studies by French scholars of ancient Egyptian and Babylonian records purport to describe accounting methods in use over two thousand years ago. The number of documents translated and analyzed is too small to justify such generalizations. The...
Financial statements, consolidated -- Great Britain -- History;Holding companies -- Great Britain -- History
The publication of consolidated accounts is an early example of innovative financial reporting procedures being introduced by U.S. companies before they were adopted in the U.K., where Nobel Industries (1922) is generally cited as the first holding...
Accounting -- Peru -- History;Quipu -- History;Incas -- Accounting
The quipu was the ingenious, knotted-string device utilized throughout the Incan empire for recording data within the decimal system. Although quipu experts have often been thought of as managerial or governmental accountants, the writings of the...
Dissertations abstracted are: Money and Clientship in the Ancient Irish Laws by Marilyn Eleanor Gerriets; The Use of Accounting Records of the Harden General Store 1860-1900 to Study Price Fluctuations, Barter and Changes in Consumption by Bobby...
Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918;Endowments -- Accounting;Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Accounting;Waqf -- History
The objective of this paper is to analyze Ottoman waqfs (foundations) to determine the internal control principles followed. In order to achieve this task, extensive references have been made to an actual waqf deed, The Waqfiyah of Ahmed Pasa. The...
Duff, P. (Peter), 1802-1869;Duff's Business Institute
Peter Duff, an accountant in Pittsburgh, was the author of several books on accounting and also the founder of a school for bookkeepers and accountants in 1840. The Duff school is significant because of its early beginnings and the fact that the...
