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...
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...
Consolidation and mergers of corporations -- Accounting;Accounting -- Standards -- United States
This paper traces the development of pooling of interests accounting for business combinations from 1945 to 1991. The history of the pooling concept is reviewed chronologically with particular emphasis on the events of 1969-1970 that were related...
Books reviewed are: A REVIEW ESSAY: Professional Foundations and Theories of Professional Behavior (Kedslie, M. J. M., Firm Foundations: The Development of Professional Accounting in Scotland 1850-1900) by Tom Lee; Henry Benson, GBE, FCA, Lord...
Abstracts for the following dissertations are provided: The Effect of Scientific Management on the Development of the Standard Cost System by Marc Epstein. The Archive of Laches: Prosperous Farmers of the Fayum in the Second Century by Whitney S....
Accounting firms -- United States -- History;Accounting -- United States -- History -- 20th century
This paper examines the growth and changing role of the accounting profession in the United States from 1900 to 1990 with special emphasis on "Big Eight" accounting firms. Major political, economic, and social events of the period and their...
Corporation reports -- Study and teaching;Financial statements -- Study and teaching;Accounting -- Study and teaching
In this article, it is suggested that accounting education may be enhanced by the use of published historical accounting materials, such as annual reports. Comparing such materials with modern reports serves to reinforce the notion that accounting...
Anecdotes;Accounting -- History -- Bibliography;Accounting -- History -- Correspondence
Subtitles are: Contact Notes; Historical Antecedents: Historical Potpourri; History in Print; Letters; Out of the Past; Research Resources; Through the Ages
1991 Accounting Hall of Fame induction: Raymond J. Chambers with introduction by Murray Wells (Chairman and Professor, University of Sydney); Induction citation by Daniel L. Jensen (Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting Department of Accounting and...
Books reviewed are: Dale L. Flesher, The Institute of Internal Auditors: 50 Years of Progress Through Sharing Reviewed by Frank E. Ryerson III; O. Finley Graves, ed., The Costing Heritage: Studies in Honor of S. Paul Garner Reviewed by Jack Ruhl;...
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...
Numerals -- History;Accounting -- History;Bookkeeping -- History
The general adoption of "Arabic" numerals by European bookkeepers occurred at least five hundred years after their introduction to the scholarly world. The early availability yet late adoption of this numeration is shown to be due to several...
Freeman, Samuel, 1743-1831. The Town Officer;Municipal finance -- Accounting
Recent research has produced the earliest known treatise on Accounting written by an American. Samuel Freeman's The Town Officer [1791] is significant in that it recommended double-entry fund accounting for municipalities. The paper analyzes and...
Accounting -- Societies, etc.;Learned institutions and societies -- Australia;International Accountants Corporation and Bookkeepers Institute of Australasia;International Institute of Accountants
In 1928, the beginnings were laid for the International Accountants Corporation and Bookkeepers Institute of Australasia. This was followed in a few years by the International Institute of Accountants. This was an ambitious move to internationalize...
Accounting -- China -- History;Bookkeeping -- China -- History
This paper examines the origination and evolution of Chinese double-entry- bookkeeping from the fifteenth century to eighteenth century. It demonstrates that Chinese merchants and bankers invented some types of double-entry spontaneously around the...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Audited financial statements -- Standards -- United States;Financial statements -- Auditing -- Standards;Auditors' reports --Standards -- United States;
This Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) changes generally accepted auditing standards by — 1. Prescribing a new form for the auditor's standard report. Most significant among the changes from the previous standard report is (a) the addition of...
Children and politics -- United States; Teenagers -- United States; Campaign debates -- United States;
Jana Kerr Pettey, publisher and editorial director of Justine magazine, led a panel discussion among teenagers about ways that they can get involved in the political process before being old enough to vote. One of several "academic activities" held...