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...
Schwarz, Matth?, 1497-1574?;Account books -- History;Bookkeeping -- History
In 1518, when nothing but Paciolo's "Summa" had been printed in the world of bookkeeping, Matth? Schwarz, who was a bookkeeper of the Fuggers, wrote a manuscript on bookkeeping known as "Threefold Bookkeeping." This manuscript showed an...
Cost -- History;Cost accounting -- History;National Association of Cost Accountants;United States. Dept. of Commerce. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
The attempt to develop cost analysis methodologies for the marketing function began at the turn of the century. Early attempts followed the pattern of factory cost analysis and progress was slow until the break-through in the years 1940- 1941.
