The article draws attention to the vast archive of accounting records from ancient Mesopotamia available to historians, and the advances in Assyriology which have taken place since the revival of interest in the origins of recorded history....
Partnership -- India -- History;Commercial law -- India -- History;Vedas
The law writers of ancient India (around 700 B.C.) devised, in a period of flourishing trade, rules for the administration of partnerships, formed as a means of combining capital and skills of individual entrepreneurs. These rules are indicative of...
The idea of the "modern" business corporation is usually traced to England during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. However, many corporate attributes can be found in the Stoic's scientific theory of corpora. This theory permeated...
Books reviewed are: Carl Thomas Devine, Inventory Valuation and Periodic Income Reviewed by Dale Buckmaster; Bruce E. Gelsinger, Icelandic Enterprise: Commerce and Economy in the Middle Ages Reviewed by Roxanne Johnson; Edward Thomas Jones, Jones's...
This article indicates that even the most recent forms of taxation find their roots firmly planted in Colonial America. The author shows that the concepts: ad valorem, transaction basis, indirect levy, multi-step collection, and taxation of net...
Corporate accounting in Australia can be said to have passed through four phases. The initial phase involved the introduction of minimum standards of statutory disclosure. The second phase was largely an extension of these statutory requirements to...
Giovanni Farolfi and Co.;Farolfi (Giovanni) and Co.;Bookkeeping -- History
This article examines the branch ledger of a Florentine firm in 13th century Provence, and its relationship to contemporaneous Tuscan account books. It is concluded that the ledger was part of a sophisticated accounting system, with a debit and...
The following poem from an unidentified source describes the "calf path, city street and country road." It could easily be paraphrased to indicate the "calf path" of bookkeeping and office routine maintained in thousands of "conservative" business...
