East India Company;Corporations -- Accounting -- England;Financial statements -- England -- History
The first archival period (1600-1663) of the (English) East India Company is marked by an absence of accounting materials. A small number of financial statements have escaped peril, however, and found their way to the India Office Library and...
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...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Securities -- United States -- Accounting;Stocks -- United States -- Accounting;Financial statements, Interim -- Standards -- United States;
This Statement provides guidance on the nature, timing, and extent of procedures to be applied by the independent accountant in conducting a review of interim financial information, as defined in paragraph 2, and on the reporting applicable to such...
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...
Managerial accounting -- History;Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915;Fayol, Henri, 1841-1925;Production control -- History
This paper outlines a classical management model of control based upon concepts identified in the writings of Frederick Taylor and Henry Fayol. The classical model's constituent concepts are found to be replicated in early accounting literature....
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Financial statements -- United States -- Auditing;Auditors' reports --Standards -- United States
The purpose of this Statement is to explain the meaning of the phrase "present fairly ... in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles" in the independent auditor's report.
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Auditors' reports --Standards -- United States;Financial statements -- United States -- Auditing;
The purpose of this section is to explain the meaning of the phrase "present fairly... in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles" in the independent auditor's report.