Books reviewed are: Roger Backhouse, Economists and the Economy: The Evolution of Economic Ideas 1600 to the Present Day Reviewed by Alistair M. Preston; Barber B. Conable, Jr., Congress and the Income Tax Reviewed by Adrianne E. Slaymaker; Edgar...
East India Company;Financial statements -- England -- History
A recent investigation into the archives of the English East India Company has produced the earliest known classified balance of accounts. Dated May 1, 1782, this statement predates the model balance sheet prescribed by the Companies Act of 1856 by...
The Accounting Review has changed dramatically over the years. The purpose of this study is to document these changes, putting into perspective the articles that are currently published in The Accounting Review. In particular, this study compares...
Capitalists and financiers;Accounting;Accounting as a profession
Professor Custis suggested that I talk on the ethical obligations of the accountant to the investor. The suggestion offered an opportunity to discuss before a sympathetic audience some of those phases of accounting practice which make it, to me,...
1989 Accounting Hall of Fame induction: Yuji Ijiri; Introduction by William W. Cooper (Nadya Kozmetsky Scott Centennial Fellow)and Induction Citation by Thomas J. Burns (Professor and Chairman Faculty Committee on Accounting Hall of Fame The Ohio...
Academy of Accounting Historians -- History;Matthews, David -- Portraits;Portraits -- Matthews, David;Previts, Gary John -- Portraits;Sweeney, Robert B. -- Portraits;Portraits -- Previts, Gary John;Portraits --Sweeney, Robert B.;Roberts, Alfred...
This paper traces the evolution of The Academy of Accounting Historians from its formation in 1973 through 1988. The Academy has evolved from an idea to an important international organization.
Developments in accounting methodology during the 1960s are contrasted with concurrent developments in philosophy of science. The 1960s was a decade characterized by the widespread adoption of “the scientific method” in accounting methodology....
Reckoning boards;Tallies;Accounting machines -- History
How could our ancestors do accounting while they were still illiterate and had no paper? The answer is that they used the tally and the checkerboard. In medieval Europe, the tally was normally a short stick on which notches were cut to represent...
Books reviewed are: Craswell, Allen. Audit Qualifications in Australia 1950 to 1979 Reviewed by Roland L. Madison; J. R. Edwards, Editor, Reporting Fixed Assets in Nineteenth-Century Company Accounts Reviewed by Hans V. Johnson; Louis Goldberg,...
Inventories -- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- United States
The legislative history of the allowance of LIFO for tax purposes is documented. The legislative process was structured around veto points of the law and yielded an examination of the political environment out of which the LIFO tax provisions...
Books reviewed are: Robert R. Locke, The End of the Practical Man: Entrepreneurship and Higher Education in Germany, France and Great Britain, 1880-1940. Review by O. Finley Graves; F. Sewell Bray, Precision and Design in Accountancy Reviewed by...