This article explores factors in the financial, legal and social environments that have significantly influenced the development of corporate audit committees. Particular emphasis is given to the actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Income tax -- United States -- Accounting;Corporations -- United States -- Taxation
In this paper, the authoritative literature is reviewed chronologically to trace the development of interperiod tax allocation from its inception in the early 1940s to late 1985. The study reveals an evolution from acceptance of either the...
Church finance;Corporations, nonprofit -- Accounting;Episcopal Church
This research documents the emergence of accounting procedures and concepts in a centrally controlled not-for-profit organization during a period of change and consolidation. The evolution of accounting as prescribed by the General Canons is...
Northern Steamship Company;Depreciation allowances -- History
In 1889 a New Zealand company had to write down its paid-up capital by 27 percent, because, the Chairman stated, previous management had failed to allow for depreciation as an expense. An investigation was conducted to see if this capital reduction...
Pacioli, Luca, ca. 1445-1517;Pacioli, Luca, ca. 1445-1517 -- Portraits;Portraits -- Pacioli, Luca, ca. 1445-1517
This article, first delivered as a paper at the 1980 World Congress of Accounting Historians in London,1 presents the results of three decades of the author's research in pursuit of a true image of Luca Pacioli. Portraits, sculptures, and sketches...
Dissertations abstracted are: Accounting for Inflation: German Theory of the 1920s by Oliver Finley Graves; The Evolution of French Accounting Thought As Reflected By The Successive Uniform Systems (Plans Comptables Généraux by Anne Fortin; The...
This paper explores the "intellectual roots" of some of today's major contributors to accounting research. Specifically, twenty-four present-day contributors were identified through their publication records and editorial service. For each of these...
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....
Interest -- Accounting;Interest -- Germany -- History
Debate still continues in the United States of America over the inclusion of interest as an element of cost. The practice was accepted as early as 1558 in Germany, and has been integrated into accounting theory by Schmalenbach in this century.
East India Company;Corporations -- Accounting -- England;Financial statements -- England -- History
The first archival period (1600-1663) of the (English) East India Company is marked by an absence of accounting materials. A small number of financial statements have escaped peril, however, and found their way to the India Office Library and...
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...
Dissertations abstracted are: An Examination of the Role of Eric Louis Kohler in the Development of the Accounting Profession by Nancy Kay Adams Humma; Abuse of Power: New York City and the Formation of Municipal Law, 1846-1866 by Jeffrey Wood...
The first book on the subject of budgeting, and the first textbook on managerial accounting, were both authored by James O. McKinsey, a professor at the University of Chicago. He was also one of the main contributors to the development of...
Dividends -- History;Capital markets -- History;Income -- History
Allegations that stock dividends serve as a vehicle for deceptive financing, evasion of taxes, misleading financial reporting, and stock market manipulation resulted in legislation that prohibited their use in the United States in the latter part...
The accounting profession has changed to meet the requirements of business, government and other economic influences. In particular, standards of practice and principles to guide the selection of choices have been developed, modified, restated and...
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...
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...
Medicine -- Practice -- Accounting;Account books -- History
This note describes an account book designed for the use of physicians, from the late 19th century. In addition to financial records, the book provides space for recording details of the medical problem, prescribed treatment, patient condition, and...
