Mitsui;House of Mitsui;Managerial accounting -- Japan -- History
Early in the 18th century the House of Mitsui created a divisionalized administrative structure with a general office known as Omotokata in order to control many operating shops. This "paper examines the divisional administrative structure and...
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...
Boston Manufacturing Company;Lawrence Manufacturing Company;Textile Industry -- Accounting;Cost accounting -- History;Waltham System
This study of the original accounting records of a pioneering American industrial enterprise narrows by one half the time lag between the earliest known English and American applications of industrial cost accounting. The research indicates that...
