This article is concerned with the problems of nineteenth century railroad asset valuation. The article presents some legal reasons for the early use of depreciation and continues with specific illustrations of railroad financial statements in the...
Books reviewed are: Raymond de Roover, Business, Banking, and Economic Thought in Late Medievel and Early Modern Europe Reviewed by Edwin Bartenstein; O. ten Have (translated by A. van Seventer), The History of AccountancyReviewed by Kathryn C....
Accounting -- England -- History;Collins, John, 1625-1683
This article will examine John Collins' textbooks, particularly An Introduction to Merchants Accounts, to consider the influence of merchants' current trading activities upon the accounting texts of seventeenth century England.
Books reviewed are: Edward J. Kane, The S & L Insurance Mess: How Did It Happen?; Lawrence J. White, The S & L Debacle. Public Policy Lessons for Bank and Thrift Regulation; Martin Mayer, The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery. The Collapse of the Savings...
Textile industry -- Accounting;Cost accounting -- History
Several authors have suggested that a particular managerial component was needed before cost accounting could be fully used for accountability and disciplinary purposes. They argue that the marriage of managerialism and accounting first occurred in...
This study reviews the literature and the practice of accounting for research and development (R&D) costs from the first reference in 1917 to the current treatment. The conceptual treatment of R&D is compared to current financial accounting rules...
Financial statements, consolidated -- Great Britain -- History;Holding companies -- Great Britain -- History;PK Limited;RB Limited
The most recent effort at restating the auditor's standard report, SAS 58, is the most comprehensive statement of the auditor's role that has ever been adopted. It is an acknowledgment that the previous report had become an ineffective...
Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation;Accounting -- Research -- Methodology;Empiricism
Little or nothing is said of empiricism in U.S. accounting literature during the first half of the twentieth century in accounting history literature. The objectives of this study are threefold: (1) to determine if an empirical accounting...
Corporations -- France -- Accounting;Accounting -- Law and legislation -- France
The first official French Accounting Plan, adopted in 1947, had a marked influence in several countries. Its impact can still be felt today and many of its features have been retained in the 1982 French Accounting Plan. The article highlights the...
Financial statements -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain;Accountants -- Professional ethics -- Great Britain
Ethics is understood as the worthiness of the rights and needs for accounting information of contending groups in society. Company law is viewed as a means by which users of financial statements rights and needs have been redressed, and which users...
Determining what should be considered a material item has been a problem for both the accounting profession and the courts. By reviewing the court cases involving the issue of materiality, the authors have determined where differences in the...
