Hammurabi, King of Babylonia;Code of Hammurabi;Commercial Law -- Babylonia
From sections of the Code of Hammurabi, it appears that records on clay tablets, corresponding to our modern business papers, were required by law in most important transactions.
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...
Selected on the basis of their etymological appeal to the author, eighteen accounting terms are traced to their earliest ascertainable form and meaning in the family of languages to which they belong. Such an investigation not only reveals...
Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association; Suffrage; Representative government and representation; Women and democracy; Equality; Women's rights; Women -- Suffrage; First-wave feminism;
Details changes and goals for the association to work toward