Affleck, Thomas, 1812-1868. The Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book
Cotton growing -- Accounting
During the antebellum period of United States history, the southern states generated an unprecedented amount of wealth through a well developed plantation system that produced vast quantities of cotton, sugar, and tobacco. To date, very little has...
Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation;Prosopography;Accounting -- History
This study explored the citation of pre-1960 literature in a body of contemporary accounting research. In a database of nearly 11,000 citations from 428 source articles, 117 pre-1960 accounting citations were identified. From the set of 413...
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...
The historical review of the evolution of accounting principles for foreign currency translation reveals that current practice is based on principles which have been developed during periods characterized by (1) wars and political instability, (2)...
Cost Accounting -- History;Hamilton, Robert, 1743-1829. Introduction to Merchandise
Almost contemporaneously with The Wealth of Nations, a treatise on bookkeeping and accounts was published which shows a lucid awareness of several cost issues, especially of the futility of attempting to allocate common or joint cost. This book is...
Books reviewed are: Reflections OF A RenaissanceScholar: Carl Devine's Essays in Accounting Theory, Volumes I-V, Reviewed by Edward Arrington; Hall, William D. Accounting and Auditing: Thoughts on Forty Years in Practice and Education. Authur...
Accounting -- Standards -- History;Accounting -- Study and teaching
Fitzgerald outlines the importance of a report, by Professors T. H. Sanders (Harvard), H. R. Hatfield (University of California) and Underhill Moore (School of Law, Yale University), made at the invitation of the Haskins and Sells Foundation on the...
Anecdotes -- Accounting;Accounting -- History -- Bibliography
Subtitles are: Book Mart; Contact Notes; Historical Antecedents; Historical Potpourri; History in Print; Out of the Past; Research Notes; Research Resources; Through the Ages
Contemporary Accounting Research;Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation;Accounting -- Research -- Methodology
Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) has expanded substantially in scope over the past two decades. This paper provides an overview of these trends using both quantitative techniques from statistics and exploratory data analysis (EDA). Articles...
Boatbuilding -- Accounting;Boatbuilding -- Costs;Canoes and canoeing -- Costs;Rushton, J. Henry;Cost accounting -- History
J. Henry Rushton was the preeminent American builder of canoes and small pleasure boats in the late nineteenth-century. Beginning in the mid 1890s, Rushton personally maintained books of cost records and cost finding rules for his boat-building...
Depreciation allowances -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain;Depreciation allowances -- Law and legislation -- United States
This paper examines and contrasts nineteenth century case law in Great Britain and the United States in which courts had to decide whether to accept accounting concepts having to do with making provisions for depreciation, amortization and...
Books reviewed are: Ellis Mast Sowell, The Evolution of the Theories and Techniques of Standard Costs Reviewed by Kenneth S. Most; James Ole Winjum, The Role of Accounting in the Economic Development of England: 1500-1750 Reviewed by Marc J....
The dissertation abstracted is: Understanding Accounting in its Social and Historical Context: The Case of Cost Accounting in Britain 1914-1925 by Anne Loft.
The editors of the Journal have chosen in this issue to reprint the comments of two distinguished speakers, Thomas Cullen Roberts and James G. Cannon, on the occasion of the annual meeting of The American Association of Public Accountants at the...
Sweeney, Henry W. (Henry Whitcomb), b. 1898-; Scott, DR, 1887-1954;Canning, John Bennett;de Paula, Frederic Rudolf Mackley, 1882-
Short biographical sketches of Henry Whitcom Sweeney by A.N. Mosich, DR Scott by James R. Morton, John Bennett Canning by William Robert Smith, and F.R.M. de Paula by Stephen A. Zeff.
This paper traces in descriptive fashion some of the developments of thought about capital maintenance during this century. The adverse consequences of neglecting the subject are mentioned after a basic review of the concepts. Contrasts among the...
The conceptual and theoretical development of cost accounting has been at a standstill for several decades, despite its poor state and drastic changes in its environment. The concept of cost itself and related concepts are both unclear and...
Financial Accounting Standards Board;Study Group on the Objectives of Financial Statements;Trueblood Report
The release of the report of the Study Group on the Objectives of Financial Statements--the "Trueblood Committee Report"--in October, 1973, has begun to set in motion a chain of events and will likely be the initial step in a significant episode of...