New Orleans Savings Bank;Banks and banking -- Accounting;Banks and banking -- Louisiana -- History;Account books -- History
This is a case study of the history, operating practices and financial reporting system of an antebellum-era financial institution. The New Orleans Savings Bank, which served the people of Louisiana from 1827 to 1842, was founded as a philanthropic...
This bibliography is a continuation of those published in R. H. Parker (ed.) Bibliographies for Accounting Historians (New York, Arno Press, 1980). It has been drawn up upon the same principles and the arrangement is the same. Most items date from...
Accounting -- Southern states -- History;Bookkeeping -- Southern states -- History;Plantations -- Louisiana -- History;Minor, William J.
Very little information exists on the accounting methods and procedures of the great cotton and sugar plantations in the Southeastern United States during the period preceding the Civil War. Fortunately, one sugar planter, William J. Minor of...
Financial statements, consolidated -- Great Britain -- History;Holding companies -- Great Britain -- History
The publication of consolidated accounts is an early example of innovative financial reporting procedures being introduced by U.S. companies before they were adopted in the U.K., where Nobel Industries (1922) is generally cited as the first holding...
One of the goals of the present federal income tax system is to tax individuals to the extent of their ability to pay. This concept of vertical equity did not originate in the current century. Analysis of the tax laws of the American colonies...
This article indicates that even the most recent forms of taxation find their roots firmly planted in Colonial America. The author shows that the concepts: ad valorem, transaction basis, indirect levy, multi-step collection, and taxation of net...
Chamberlain, Robert, fl. 1678-1679. Accomptants guide or merchants book-keeper
The ownership of a copy of Chamberlain's The Accountants Guide or Merchants Bookkeeper, 1686 is traced through six famous owners from 1700 for almost a century. It is now housed in the Boston Athenaeum.
Moxey, Edward Preston, 1881-;McDonald, John, 1841-1904;Soule, George, 1834-1926;Graham, Willard J. 1897-
Biographical sketches of 4 accountants: Edward P. Moxey, Jr. By Adolph Matz; John McDonald By Harvey Mann; George Soule By Vahe Baladouni; Willard J. Graham By R. E. Ziegler.
