Books reviewed are: Robert R. Locke, The End of the Practical Man: Entrepreneurship and Higher Education in Germany, France and Great Britain, 1880-1940. Review by O. Finley Graves; F. Sewell Bray, Precision and Design in Accountancy Reviewed by...
This paper examines the probative capacity of accounting records as explicated in the accounting literature of early-modern Spain. Several early examples of Hispanic legal texts constitute the principal sources. The chief findings to emerge from...
Books reviewed are: Frederic William Cronhelm, Double Entry by Single Reviewed by Raymond T. Holmes, Jr.; Lawrence Robert Dicksee, Fraudulent Accounting and Fraud in Accounts Reviewed by William G. Mister; Gadis J. Dillon, The Role of Accounting In...
Sarjeant, Thomas. An Introduction to the Counting House;Accounting -- United States -- History
In 1789, seven years before the text developed by "pioneer American [accounting] author" William Mitchell appeared, Thomas Sarjeant of Philadelphia published An Introduction to the Counting House. It was a concise and able expression of a long...
Books reviewed are: Thomas J. Burns and Edward N. Coffman, The Accounting Hall of Fame: Profiles of Forty-one Members Reviewed by Kathryn Verreault; C. W. DeMond, Price Waterhouse & Co. In America Reviewed by Robert Jennings, Jr.; Esteban Hernandez...
Richard P. Brief, Editor, Selections from Encyclopaedia of Accounting 1903 Reviewed by Edward N. Coffman; F. L. Clarke, The Tangled Web of Price Variation Accounting Reviewed by Robert Bloom; D.A.R. Forrester, Editor, Frank Sewell Bray,Reviewed by...
Books reviewed are: Committee on Commemoration of One Hundred Years of Modern Accounting, Japan Accounting Association, One Hundred Years of Modern Accounting Reviewed by Kiyomitsu Arai; F. R. M. De Paula, Developments in Accounting Reviewed by...
Books reviewed are: Carl Thomas Devine, Inventory Valuation and Periodic Income Reviewed by Dale Buckmaster; Bruce E. Gelsinger, Icelandic Enterprise: Commerce and Economy in the Middle Ages Reviewed by Roxanne Johnson; Edward Thomas Jones, Jones's...
Books reviewed are: Dale L. Flesher, The Institute of Internal Auditors: 50 Years of Progress Through Sharing Reviewed by Frank E. Ryerson III; O. Finley Graves, ed., The Costing Heritage: Studies in Honor of S. Paul Garner Reviewed by Jack Ruhl;...
