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...
Accounting -- History -- Methodology;Accounting Historians Journal
Although this is the first issue of The Accounting Historians Journal that has been published by the new editorial team, the current editors and reviewers have been processing manuscripts for nearly a year. During that time, 40 manuscripts have...
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...
Abstracts of: The Behavioral Implications of the Stewardship Concept and Its Effects on Financial Reporting by Rosita Chen; Product Costing Under Conditions of Idle Plant Capacity by Edwin Bartenstein; The Impact of Blue-sky Regulations on the New...
This article outlines the lives and background of the main writers who were active in the 18th century period of ’scottish Ascendancy’ in accounting texts. The impressive publications produced by this group are detailed and the question of why...
Books reviewed are: Reflections OF A RenaissanceScholar: Carl Devine's Essays in Accounting Theory, Volumes I-V, Reviewed by Edward Arrington; Hall, William D. Accounting and Auditing: Thoughts on Forty Years in Practice and Education. Authur...
The conceptual and theoretical development of cost accounting has been at a standstill for several decades, despite its poor state and drastic changes in its environment. The concept of cost itself and related concepts are both unclear and...
This paper examines the probative capacity of accounting records as explicated in the accounting literature of early-modern Spain. Several early examples of Hispanic legal texts constitute the principal sources. The chief findings to emerge from...
Books reviewed are: Frederic William Cronhelm, Double Entry by Single Reviewed by Raymond T. Holmes, Jr.; Lawrence Robert Dicksee, Fraudulent Accounting and Fraud in Accounts Reviewed by William G. Mister; Gadis J. Dillon, The Role of Accounting In...
Sarjeant, Thomas. An Introduction to the Counting House;Accounting -- United States -- History
In 1789, seven years before the text developed by "pioneer American [accounting] author" William Mitchell appeared, Thomas Sarjeant of Philadelphia published An Introduction to the Counting House. It was a concise and able expression of a long...
Studies by French scholars of ancient Egyptian and Babylonian records purport to describe accounting methods in use over two thousand years ago. The number of documents translated and analyzed is too small to justify such generalizations. The...
