Tax accounting -- United States -- History;Tax consultants -- United States -- History
The paper presents an historical summary of the major issues and events which led to the development of the practice of taxation by accountants in the United States. This development was marked by tremendous conflict between the legal and...
Books reviewed are: Howard F. Stettler, Editor, Auditing Looks Ahead??ceedings of the 1972 Touche Ross/University of Kansas Symposium on Auditing Problems Reviewed by James D. Blum; Charles William Lamden, The Securities and Exchange Commission: A...
Bureau for Placements;Accounting as a profession -- History;Accounting -- Study and teaching
The Bureau for Placements sought to encourage qualified college graduates to choose public accounting as a career, to place them with public accounting firms, and to remove the problem of seasonal employment. During its six years of operations, the...
One of the goals of the present federal income tax system is to tax individuals to the extent of their ability to pay. This concept of vertical equity did not originate in the current century. Analysis of the tax laws of the American colonies...
Accountants -- Professional ethics -- History;Tax accounting -- Standards -- United States;Tax consultants -- Professional ethics -- United States
The paper traces the development of the accounting profession's own standards relating to tax practice. When appropriate, the nature and effect of government regulation on the profession's own standards are noted. It was determined that the...
East India Company;Bookkeeping -- England -- History;Account books -- History
Although the account-books of the East India Company for the period 1600-1657 are lost, an almost complete series of minutes and other documents make the exploration of accounting in this great mercantile company possible. The present study...
Accounting -- China -- History;Accounting -- Hawaii -- History;Quipu -- History
The use of the "quipu" for accounting purposes has been primarily attributed to the Peruvian Inca culture in the days of old. Documented evidence, however, provides that early Hawaiians and ancient Chinese predated the Incan usage. Studies...
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...
Abstract: Confusion as to the real nature of commercial goodwill is well-entrenched in the literature, as evidenced by accountants' attention to valuation formulae rather than the underlying assets. The paper traces conceptual clarification of...
Assets (Accounting);Corporations -- Accounting;Financial statements -- United States -- History;Valuations -- Corporations
The paper is a historical study of the asset revaluation movement and the subsequent establishment of the cost basis in the United States. A survey of the corporate report leads to a generalization that the asset revaluations were fundamentally the...
Dissertation abstracted are: Technology and Organization: Steel Rail Innovation and Railroad Survivorship in the American Manufacturing Region, 1860-1890 by David Paul Marple; The State and the Beginnings of the Railroad Grandes Lignes Network in...
Books reviewed are: Committee on Commemoration of One Hundred Years of Modern Accounting, Japan Accounting Association, One Hundred Years of Modern Accounting Reviewed by Kiyomitsu Arai; F. R. M. De Paula, Developments in Accounting Reviewed by...
The paper briefly describes the entries recorded in the journal of a Baltimore merchant during the latter 18th and early 19th centuries--twenty-seven years. Topics covered include entries in dual currency, composition of journal entries, method of...
The idea of the "modern" business corporation is usually traced to England during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. However, many corporate attributes can be found in the Stoic's scientific theory of corpora. This theory permeated...
Auditing -- United States -- History;Railroads -- Accounting -- History
The paper explores the origins of the auditing profession in the United States. It is suggested that the development of the audit function in this country can be traced to reporting by internal and shareholder auditors in the American railroads...
The paper seeks to explore the origins of the paradigm on which modern accounting rests. It suggests that explanations which look to the relative concentration and dilution of the central political power may be relevant to discussing paradigms...
Capital -- Accounting -- History;Income accounting -- History
This paper evidences the contribution of leading writers in the early 1900s to the vexed problems associated with capital maintenance and periodic income determination. It reveals that the issues which were then being discussed (such as the...
