Books reviewed are: Lawrence Robert Dicksee. Business Methods and the War Reviewed by William L. Talbert; Marc Jay Epstein, The Effect of Scientific Management on the Development of the Standard Cost System Reviewed by Ashton C. Bishop; Charles...
Inventories -- History;Taxation -- United States -- History
The history of LIFO illustrates the interplay of taxes and the general acceptance of accounting principles. In this paper, the gradual acceptance of LIFO in the United States is traced. The study focuses on both the theoretical evolution of LIFO...
Accounting -- Study and teaching;Accounting -- History
A feature of the history of accounting thought is the existence of contending theories of accounts in continental Europe. Four schools of accounting thought developed and are here briefly examined.
Books reviewed are: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Editor, Managerial Innovation at General Motors Reviewed by Daniel A. Wren; Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Editor, Pioneers in Modern Factory Management Reviewed by Michael F. Pohlen; Nicholas Dopuch and...
Goodwill (Commerce) -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States
The paper traces the development of the current valuation concept of goodwill from 1900 to 1970, when the present position was articulated. The paper suggests that there may be alternative bases for goodwill valuation and concludes that additional...
Dissertations abstracted are: A Technical and Business Revolution: American Woolens to 1832 by Elizabeth Hitz; The Financial Panic of 1857: Two Monetary Approaches to the Economic History of the United States, 1842-59 by Edmundo Olvera Acosta; An...
Edward M. Carney, et. al., The American Business Manual Reviewed by Dale L. Flesher and Tonya K. Flesher; A Hamilton Church, The Proper Distribution of Expense Burden, Reviewed by Jackson F. Gillespie; Robert W. Gibson, Editor, Accounting Education...
Dissertations abstracted are: Investor Experience in Corporate Bonds, 1950-1974 by Robert James Hartl; Private External Borrowing: The Brazilian Experience by Alkimar Ribeiro Moura; The Politics of the Municipal Debt Structure in New York City by...
Books reviewed are: Stuart W. Bruchey. Robert Oliver and Merchantile Bookkeeping in the Early Nineteenth Century Reviewed by Robert Bloom; Deloitte & Co. 1845-1956 Reviewed by Hans V. Johnson; Martin M. Crow and Clair C. Olson (eds.), Chaucer...
Dissertations abstracted are: Taxation in Bretagne, 1598-1648 by James Barry Collins; The Accumulation of Capital and the Subsistence Agriculture in Brazil Since 1889 by Roberto Jose Moreira; Canadian Business & The 'Reform' Process in the 1930s by...
Books reviewed are: David A. R. Forrester, Schmalenbach and After: A Study of the Evolution of German Business Economics Reviewed by Konrad W. Kubin; Tito Antoni, II Bilancio di una Azienda Laniera del Trecento Reviewed by Alvaro Martinelli;...
Dissertations abstracted are: The Evolution of Accounting Thought and Practices Related to Bond Refunding by George Howard Neal; Banking in California: Some Evidence on Structure, 1878-1905 by Lynne Margaret Pierson Doti; The National Banks and...
Dissertations abstracted are: Toward A Theory Of Evolution Of Selected Accounting Ideas by Man Chand Maloo; The Development of Income Reporting in the United States by Willard Harold Galliart; The Public Accounting Profession-The Impact of External...
Industrial management -- History;Cost accounting -- History
Many have suggested that scientific management had a direct influence on the development of standard costing. This paper examines the relationship between these concepts in broad terms. While it is concluded that no direct relationship exists...
