Books reviewed are: Tito Antoni, I Costi Industriali di Una Azienda Conciaria della Fine del Trecento, 1384-1388 Reviewed by Alvaro Martinelli; Horace Lucian Arnold (Henry Roland), The Complete Cost-Keeper, 3rd ed. Reviewed by G. Stevenson Smith;...
Dissertations abstracted are: Salt-Making, Merchants and Markets: The Role of a Critical Resource in the Development of Maya Civilization by Anthony Parshall Andrews; Military and Financial Government in France, 1648-1 661 by Peter Jonathan Berger;...
Whenever income and capital maintenance concepts are discussed at the conceptual level, a reference to Hicks is likely to be found. These references are misleading since Hicks himself believed that the proper basis of valuation in the financial...
Accounting -- Examinations, Questions, etc. -- History;Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales -- History
Abstract: This study considers the final examinations of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, from 1882-1981. Discussion of the likely purposes of the examinations, and of possible ways of assessing their efficiency, is...
Schwarz, Matth?, 1497-1574?;Account books -- History;Bookkeeping -- History
In 1518, when nothing but Paciolo's "Summa" had been printed in the world of bookkeeping, Matth? Schwarz, who was a bookkeeper of the Fuggers, wrote a manuscript on bookkeeping known as "Threefold Bookkeeping." This manuscript showed an...
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...
Paper -- Preservation;Periodicals -- Conservation and restoration
Many accounting documents and journals disintegrate every year due to the acidic quality of paper used in them. Using the laboratory of the Office of Preservation of the Library of Congress, certain accounting journals were analyzed for their...
May, George Oliver, 1875-1961;Paton, William Andrew, 1889-1991
The paper presents a synopsis of the principles and theoretical dispositions of May and Paton on selected areas of accounting; in particular, income determination and valuation.
DR Scott was an economist, historian, philosopher, and accountant. Most of all he was a scholar who merged some of the most up-to-date ideas of the 1920s into his book The Cultural Significance of Accounts. He concluded that our culture was in a...
Discounted cash flow;Valuation;Shelton Iron and Steel Company;Shelton Collieries and Ironworks;Shelton Iron, Steel and Coal Company
In 1889 the Shelton Iron, Steel and Coal Company Limited was incorporated to take over the assets and business activities of two existing companies. To guide the contracting parties in negotiating a price to be paid for the properties belonging to...
The paper investigates the Bonsignori accounts that are in the archives of the University of Kansas, Spencer Research Library. The file contains 133 documents and bound books relating to the affairs of the Filippo Bonsignori family between 1455 and...
As the revolution in computing advances, it is appropriate to step back and look at the earliest practical aid to computation?? abacus. Its formal western origins lie with the Greeks and the expansion of trade in the seventh century BC, and its...
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...
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...
The development of auditing standards in Australia occurred in three phases. The primary professional initiatives have come from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. The first phase was marked by F. E. Trigg's presentation to the...
Accounting -- New Zealand -- Study and teaching;Accounting -- New Zealand -- History
University teaching of accountancy in New Zealand is probably unique in that it has developed hand in hand with the educational requirements of the profession. Although this close relationship did much to stimulate accounting education in the early...
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...