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....
Universities and colleges -- Accounting;Glasgow College;Bookkeeping -- Scotland -- History
In 1775 A.D. the recommendation was made that the accounts of Glasgow College be changed from the traditional charge and discharge type of records to a double entry bookkeeping system. This touched off an academic controversy that lasted for many...
Books reviewed are: Arthur Lowes Dickinson, Accounting Practice and Procedure, Reviewed by Jack L. Krogstad; Institute of Chartered Accountants in England, Historical Accounting Literature, Reviewed by Adrian L. Kline; Arthur H. Woolf, A Short...
