The following pages were not included in the bound volume used for scanning: January, pages 3, 4, 9, 10; March, pages 5, 6, 7, 8; June, pages 5, 6, 7, 8. These were probably advertising inserts. Also, the December issue was not in the bound...
The idea of a classification of accounting services originated with John R. Wildman who was the senior technical partner for the firm of Haskins & Sells during the 1920's and under whose direction the writer was employed fifty years ago. Haskins &...
Various accounting practices, based on the same accounting concepts and principles, have been developed to satisfy the multiple and changing needs of the users of accounting reports. Direct and absorption costing are two such accounting practices....
Announcements are: List of Working Papers Series; Advertisements for Selected Classics of Bookkeeping and The History of Accounting, A Reprint Collection; Third Annual Business Meeting; Papers received; Nomination Notice; Brochure available; Dues...
Books reviewed are: Diran Bodenhorn, Economic Accounting Reviewed by Catharine M. Lemieux; Brown, Donald E., Hierarchy, History, and Human Nature: The Social Origins of Historical Consciousness Reviewed by Jenice P. Stewart; Chambers, R. J., and...
Academy of Accounting Historians -- History;Matthews, David -- Portraits;Portraits -- Matthews, David;Previts, Gary John -- Portraits;Sweeney, Robert B. -- Portraits;Portraits -- Previts, Gary John;Portraits --Sweeney, Robert B.;Roberts, Alfred...
This paper traces the evolution of The Academy of Accounting Historians from its formation in 1973 through 1988. The Academy has evolved from an idea to an important international organization.
Anecdotes;Accounting -- History -- Bibliography;Accounting -- History -- Correspondence
Subtitles are: Contact Notes; Historical Antecedents; Historical Potpourri; History in Print; Letters; Out of the Past; Research Resources; Through the Ages.
United States Steel Corporation;Depreciation;Replacement of industrial equipment -- Accounting
This paper examines the magnitude of the reporting bias inherent in the historical cost accounting of a firm's physical capital. Reported depreciation data pertaining to U.S. Steel Corporation (currently USX) between 1939 and 1987 are compared with...
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...
