Reckoning boards;Tallies;Accounting machines -- History
How could our ancestors do accounting while they were still illiterate and had no paper? The answer is that they used the tally and the checkerboard. In medieval Europe, the tally was normally a short stick on which notches were cut to represent...
Titles of announcements include: Working papers inaugurated; Chatfield to speak at 2nd annual meeting; Second annual business meeting of The Academy, August 20th; Academy incorporates; New Orleans reminders; Membership increases; Meeting agenda,...