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...
Roxana mentions that she is not so enthusiastic about travel as she gets older; they have rented out the plantation to freedmen; mentions the trend of plantation owners to rent out their plantations to freedmen; they pay with cotton for their rent;...
Accountants -- Professional ethics -- Standards -- United States
For the purpose of this book I shall assume, what I believe to be the case, that there can be no doubt at all of the professional standing of accountancy. In the treatment of the questions which will be considered it seems best to take the various...
Studies by French scholars of ancient Egyptian and Babylonian records purport to describe accounting methods in use over two thousand years ago. The number of documents translated and analyzed is too small to justify such generalizations. The...