Sweeney, Henry W. (Henry Whitcomb), b. 1898-;Schmalenbach, E. (Eugen), 1873-1955;Mahlberg, Walter;Accounting -- Effect of inflation on;Graves, Oliver Finley
Graves [1987] very competent and well-documented descriptions of Mahlberg’s and Schmalenbach’s Goldmarkbilanz techniques should raise no objections on technical grounds. He ably captures and amplifies the mechanical aspects of these major...
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...
Inventories -- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- United States
The legislative history of the allowance of LIFO for tax purposes is documented. The legislative process was structured around veto points of the law and yielded an examination of the political environment out of which the LIFO tax provisions...
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,...
Books reviewed are: Sokolow, Jaroslaw W., The History of Accounting Thought [Istocia razwitija buchgaltierskowo uczieta] Reviewed by Alicia Jaruga; J.L. Meij, Editor, Depreciation and Replacement Policy Reviewed by Doris M. Cook; Richard...
This article outlines the lives and background of the main writers who were active in the 18th century period of ’scottish Ascendancy’ in accounting texts. The impressive publications produced by this group are detailed and the question of why...
This bibliography is a continuation of those published in R. H. Parker (ed.) Bibliographies for Accounting Historians (New York, Arno Press, 1980). It has been drawn up upon the same principles and the arrangement is the same. Most items date from...
Indeed the challenges facing accounting historians--namely to initiate meaningful applications of quantitative analysis, to recapture a "lost century" of accounting history and to build toward a more complete literature about the history of...
Titles of announcements include: Working papers inaugurated; Chatfield to speak at 2nd annual meeting; Second annual business meeting of The Academy, August 20th; Academy incorporates; New Orleans reminders; Membership increases; Meeting agenda,...
In Australia, Adolf Alexander Fitzgerald (1890-1969) was the outstanding accounting figure of his time. Practitioner, academic, lecturer, writer and editor, researcher, advisor to governments and active participant in many economic, financial and...
Boatbuilding -- Accounting;Boatbuilding -- Costs;Canoes and canoeing -- Costs;Rushton, J. Henry;Cost accounting -- History
J. Henry Rushton was the preeminent American builder of canoes and small pleasure boats in the late nineteenth-century. Beginning in the mid 1890s, Rushton personally maintained books of cost records and cost finding rules for his boat-building...
This paper traces in descriptive fashion some of the developments of thought about capital maintenance during this century. The adverse consequences of neglecting the subject are mentioned after a basic review of the concepts. Contrasts among the...
International Accounting History Symposium;Bookkeeping -- Germany -- History;Auditing -- Germany -- History
Summary of two papers: State of Bookkeeping in Upper Germany at the Time of the Fuggers and Welsers, by Hermann Kellenbenz; Survey of the Development of Auditing in Germany, by Rosa-Elizabeth Gassmann
Accounting Hall of Fame (Ohio State University. Fisher College of Business);Anthony, Robert Newton, 1916-
Citation Presented by: Robert M. Trueblood Professor Yuji Ijiri (Carnegie-Mellon University); Written by: Professor Thomas J. Burns (The Ohio State University). Response by Robert Newton Anthony.
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants--History
In the article the author commemorates the contributions of 14 leaders who have bettered the profession over the first century of American accounting. Of these 14, four men are highlighted: Robert H. Montgomery, George O. May, William A. Paton and...
Voluntary health agencies -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States;Charities -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States
This article chronicles and compares the attempts made over the years by Voluntary Health and Welfare Organizations (VHWO), accountants and accounting bodies to determine VHWO accounting principles. Also discussed are the events that led to the...
