Accountants -- Professional ethics -- Standards -- United States
The Q&A's which follow were prepared by the staff as an aid to practitioners in resolving ethical problems. While every effort has been made to reflect accurately the files from which the Q&A's were prepared, and to avoid duplication, we recognize...
An error was made in printing Figures 1 and 2 of “The Nature and Function of Cost Keeping in a Late Nineteenth-Century Small Business.” The front page of the article and the corrected figures are printed on the following pages. The editors...
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...
Recent archeological research offers revolutionary insight about the precursor of abstract counting and pictographic as well as ideographic writing. This precursor was a data processing system in which simple (and later complex) clay tokens of...
Dissertations abstracted are: Perspectives on the "Objectives of Financial Statements" by Robert Bloom; Robert M. Trueblood, CPA: The Consumate Professional by Roscoe Bryson; Robert H. Montgomery: A Pioneer Leader of American Accounting by Alfred...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Stocks -- United States -- Accounting;Securities -- United States -- Accounting
The services of independent certified public accountants include examination of financial statements and schedules contained in registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) under the Securities Act of 1933...
Auditing -- Standards -- United States;Auditing -- Statistical methods -- Standards -- United States;Sampling (Statistics)
Audit sampling is the application of an audit procedure to less than 100 percent of the items within an account balance or class of transactions for the purpose of evaluating some characteristic of the balance or class.1 This Statement provides...