The International Accounting Standards Committee's (IASC) exposure draft on "Comparability of Financial Statements" has increased the awareness of the need for international changes in accounting standards. Since the IASC cannot mandate these...
Developments in accounting methodology during the 1960s are contrasted with concurrent developments in philosophy of science. The 1960s was a decade characterized by the widespread adoption of “the scientific method” in accounting methodology....
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...
Books reviewed are: Axel Grandell, Redovisningens utvecklingshistoria fran bildskrit tii dator, reviewed by Sandor Aszely; John B. Inglis, My Life and Times, reviewed by Richard A. Scott; Hanns-Martin W. Schoenfeld, Cost Terminology and Cost...
Bentley, Harry C. (Harry Clark), 1877-1967;Sterrett, Joseph Edmund, 1870-1934;Mason, Perry Empey, 1899-1964;Montgomery, Robert Hiester, 1872-1953
Biographical sketches of Harry Clark Bentley by Edward James Gurry; Joseph E. Sterrrett by Barbara Dubis Marino; Perry Mason by Roscoe Eugene Bryson, Jr.; Robert Hiester Montgomery by Anthony T. Krzystofik.
Announcements include table of contents for Abacus March 1989, Accounting and Business Research winter 1988, Journal of Accounting Education spring 1989, Accounting and Finance May 1989, The Accounting Review Jan. 1989, Contemporary Accounting...
Books reviewed are: Craswell, Allen. Audit Qualifications in Australia 1950 to 1979 Reviewed by Roland L. Madison; J. R. Edwards, Editor, Reporting Fixed Assets in Nineteenth-Century Company Accounts Reviewed by Hans V. Johnson; Louis Goldberg,...
This article examines the importance of the treatment H. K. Hathaway gave to product costing issues in his depression-era writings. The paper compares Hathaway's approach to product costing with the contributions of Alexander Hamilton Church, H....
Japan’s rise from a feudalistic economy to a position as a leading industrial power is a result, in part, of two revolutionary changes in its accounting structure. The first change came during the latter part of the nineteenth century as part of...
His paper presents the history of the international efforts to standardize mine accounting between 1895 and 1915. Extractive industries, such as mining and oil and gas, posed especially difficult problems for the accounting profession. In 1895...
This paper provides an analysis of “elite” accounting practitioners during the formative years of the Canadian accounting profession (1880-1930). The social characteristics of this group in comparison with the Canadian population and the links...
Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, one of the most outstanding intellectual figures of our time, died in October at the age of eighty-six. His vast erudition, accompanied with astonishing industry and magnificent style, made him a prolific writer on...
Subtitles are: Household Economy as Factory Economy; Business Cycles; Depreciation; Inflation and Stabilized Accounting; Income Tax Law; Business Budgets; Uniform CPA Examinations Prepared by American Institute of Accountants; Actuarial Mathematics...
Announcements include Hourglass Award and table of contents for Accounting and Business Research autumn 1988, Journal of Accounting Education fall 1988, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability 1988 Vol. 1, no.2, Accounting and Finance Nov. 1988,...
Books reviewed are: Sokolow, Jaroslaw W., The History of Accounting Thought [Istocia razwitija buchgaltierskowo uczieta] Reviewed by Alicia Jaruga; J.L. Meij, Editor, Depreciation and Replacement Policy Reviewed by Doris M. Cook; Richard...
An error was made in printing Figures 1 and 2 of “The Nature and Function of Cost Keeping in a Late Nineteenth-Century Small Business.” The front page of the article and the corrected figures are printed on the following pages. The editors...
Japan is one of the oldest nations in the world and yet one of the "newest." Western bookkeeping methods came in on the top of the native indigenous method which had been firmly established for centuries. Both of these systems developed quite...
