Financial statements -- Standards -- History;Accounting -- Standards -- History
The debate among accounting theoreticians as to the content and usefulness of the Financial Accounting Standards Board's concept statements and its conceptual framework project can better be understood if a perspective of prior "framework" efforts...
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Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915;Cost accounting -- History
We respond to those issues that M. C. Wells raised in his comments on our article. We found that his comments on the association of scientific management and cost accounting, and on Taylor's historical role in cost accounting were debatable, and...
Mitsui;House of Mitsui;Managerial accounting -- Japan -- History
Early in the 18th century the House of Mitsui created a divisionalized administrative structure with a general office known as Omotokata in order to control many operating shops. This "paper examines the divisional administrative structure and...
Accounting writers have invariably referred to the accounting literature of the 1960s and 1970s as the earliest source of discussion about the impact of budgets upon manager behaviour. This short paper identifies a number of accounting writers of...
Financial statements, consolidated -- Great Britain -- History;Holding companies -- Great Britain -- History
The publication of consolidated accounts is an early example of innovative financial reporting procedures being introduced by U.S. companies before they were adopted in the U.K., where Nobel Industries (1922) is generally cited as the first holding...
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Accounting -- Peru -- History;Quipu -- History;Incas -- Accounting
The quipu was the ingenious, knotted-string device utilized throughout the Incan empire for recording data within the decimal system. Although quipu experts have often been thought of as managerial or governmental accountants, the writings of the...
Abstract: Confusion as to the real nature of commercial goodwill is well-entrenched in the literature, as evidenced by accountants' attention to valuation formulae rather than the underlying assets. The paper traces conceptual clarification of...
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Assets (Accounting);Corporations -- Accounting;Financial statements -- United States -- History;Valuations -- Corporations
The paper is a historical study of the asset revaluation movement and the subsequent establishment of the cost basis in the United States. A survey of the corporate report leads to a generalization that the asset revaluations were fundamentally the...
Auditing -- United States -- History;Railroads -- Accounting -- History
The paper explores the origins of the auditing profession in the United States. It is suggested that the development of the audit function in this country can be traced to reporting by internal and shareholder auditors in the American railroads...
The paper seeks to explore the origins of the paradigm on which modern accounting rests. It suggests that explanations which look to the relative concentration and dilution of the central political power may be relevant to discussing paradigms...
Capital -- Accounting -- History;Income accounting -- History
This paper evidences the contribution of leading writers in the early 1900s to the vexed problems associated with capital maintenance and periodic income determination. It reveals that the issues which were then being discussed (such as the...
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Books reviewed are: Carl Thomas Devine, Inventory Valuation and Periodic Income Reviewed by Dale Buckmaster; Bruce E. Gelsinger, Icelandic Enterprise: Commerce and Economy in the Middle Ages Reviewed by Roxanne Johnson; Edward Thomas Jones, Jones's...
