Announcements are: List of Working Papers Series; Advertisements for Selected Classics of Bookkeeping and The History of Accounting, A Reprint Collection; Third Annual Business Meeting; Papers received; Nomination Notice; Brochure available; Dues...
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...
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...
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...
This bibliography is a continuation of those published in R. H. Parker (ed.) Bibliographies for Accounting Historians (New York, Arno Press, 1980). It has been drawn up upon the same principles and the arrangement is the same. Most items date from...
Boatbuilding -- Accounting;Boatbuilding -- Costs;Canoes and canoeing -- Costs;Rushton, J. Henry;Cost accounting -- History
J. Henry Rushton was the preeminent American builder of canoes and small pleasure boats in the late nineteenth-century. Beginning in the mid 1890s, Rushton personally maintained books of cost records and cost finding rules for his boat-building...
Books reviewed are: Malcolm, Alexander. A Treatise of Bookkeeping or Merchants Accounts in the Italian Method of Debtor and Creditor; Mair, John. Bookkeeping Modernized or Merchant Accounts by Double Entry; Mitchell, William. A New and Complete...
Municipal finance -- Accounting -- History;Nau, Carl Henry, 1867- -- Portraits;Portraits -- Nau, Carl Henry, 1867-
Despite the fact that municipal accounting was a significant and permanent reform of the Progressive era, historians have failed to accord accountants proper credit for their leadership roles. Ohio was an important Progressive state and is...
Nonprofit organizations -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States;Finance, public -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States
This article presents a condensed history of significant post 1900 developments in nonbusiness financial accounting practices and standards, and highlights some of the major issues in the recent increase in interest and activity in nonbusiness...
