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....
Cost Accounting -- History;Church, A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton), 1866-1936
The influence of engineers on the development of cost accounting in the closing decades of last century has been well recognized. The influence of economists, the retarding effects of an obsession with industrial secrecy, and some curious effects...
Accounting -- History;Accounting -- History -- Research;Accounting -- History -- Bibliography
Over 200 books and articles on accounting history published 1969-1977 are listed in an annotated bibliography and assessed in Part I. Part II makes the following suggestions for future research: (i) more bibliographies (ii) influence of the...
Scott, DR (1887-1954). Cultural Significance of Accounts;Accounting -- Research
Cushing's [1989] recent analysis of Kuhn's [1970] characterization of the state of crisis within a discipline's research agenda suggests that the accounting discipline is showing symptoms of such a crisis. In this paper, DR Scott's [1931] classical...
Income accounting -- History;Financial statements -- History
The origin of income smoothing in literature has been attributed to different authors in recent years. However, the attributions have been made based on research using a simple analysis of the term "income smoothing". This study considers the...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Moxey, Edward Preston, 1881-;McDonald, John, 1841-1904;Soule, George, 1834-1926;Graham, Willard J. 1897-
Biographical sketches of 4 accountants: Edward P. Moxey, Jr. By Adolph Matz; John McDonald By Harvey Mann; George Soule By Vahe Baladouni; Willard J. Graham By R. E. Ziegler.
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company;Railroads -- Accounting -- History;Actions and defenses
The issue about disclosing contingent losses arising from lawsuits has been an accounting problem for decades. Prior to 1953, there was no mandate for recording or disclosing such contingencies. In this study, the 307 court cases brought against...
Books reviewed are: Philip D. Bougen, Accounting and Industrial Relations: Some Historical Evidence on Their Interaction Reviewed by Roxanne T. Johnson; Robert H. Frank, Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions Reviewed by Eric W....
Introduction by Sidney Davidson (Arthur Young Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Accounting and former Dean, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business) Induction citation by Thomas J. Burns (Professor and Chairman Committee on...
