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...
Sweeney, Henry W. (Henry Whitcomb), b. 1898-;Schmalenbach, E. (Eugen), 1873-1955;Mahlberg, Walter;Accounting -- Effect of inflation on
In his book Stabilized Accounting of 1936, Henry Sweeney differentiated his indexation model for accounting for inflation from the French and German inflation-accounting models of the 1920s by describing the European methods as "usually quite...
Rubber industry and trade -- Bolivia;Plantations -- Bolivia;l'Anson, Henri
In January, 1900, Henry I'Anson applied, successfully, for the position of accountant at a rubber plantation in Bolivia. He and his wife journeyed there by steamship, steam launch, and canoe, to find a less than hospitable welcome. I'Anson's...
Accounting Historians Journal;Authorship -- Style manuals;English language -- Rhetoric
Reading and assessing a large number of manuscripts, essays, papers and dissertations over a considerable number of years, I have formed a few notions of what I regard as their desirable and undesirable features. These I offer here in the hope that...
Finance, public -- Georgia -- History;Verelst, Harman;Colonial administrators -- Accounting
Stewardship reporting was an important tool in the establishment and development of the American Colonies. In 1732 the King of England created the Colony of Georgia as a haven for England's "worthy poor." A corporate trust was established to...