Quakers -- Massachusetts -- West Falmouth;Church finance -- Accounting;Account books -- History
The village of West Falmouth, Massachusetts was settled in the 1660s by William Gifford and other Quakers who came there to avoid persecution. They lived relatively isolated from other settlers in the region. The accounting records of Prince...
Freeman, Samuel, 1743-1831. The Town Officer;Municipal finance -- Accounting
Recent research has produced the earliest known treatise on Accounting written by an American. Samuel Freeman's The Town Officer [1791] is significant in that it recommended double-entry fund accounting for municipalities. The paper analyzes and...
Bribery -- History;Accounting -- Moral and Ethical Aspects
In the late nineteenth century The Accountant reported on a case where the auditors looked at the mattery of bribery "straight in the face" and disclosed the illegal payments in the audit certificate. However, subsequent discussion of the...