Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation;Prosopography;Accounting -- History
This study explored the citation of pre-1960 literature in a body of contemporary accounting research. In a database of nearly 11,000 citations from 428 source articles, 117 pre-1960 accounting citations were identified. From the set of 413...
Contemporary Accounting Research;Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation;Accounting -- Research -- Methodology
Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) has expanded substantially in scope over the past two decades. This paper provides an overview of these trends using both quantitative techniques from statistics and exploratory data analysis (EDA). Articles...
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...
Announcements include: table of contents for Abacus March 1987, Accounting and Business Research autumn 1986, Accounting and Finance Nov. 1986, Accounting Review Jan. 1987, Contemporary Accounting Reseach spring 1987, and Journal of Accounting...
Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation;Agency (Law);Commercial agents -- Study and teaching
With the advent of new bibliographic data sources and new analytical techniques, accounting historians may now trace the development of accounting thought with the aid of bibliometric analysis. The objective of this paper is to discuss a social...
Announcements include: advertisements for the following monographs, Selected Classics in the History of Bookkeeping, Accounting History Classics Series, Working Paper Series, price list for Academy publications, and table of contents for The...
A model of change in twentieth century American accounting is presented. The model describes three-phase cycles, each consisting of a reactive, a proactive, and synthesis phase. The text and Appendix illustrate and attempt to validate the model,...
This paper traces the development of pension accounting theory and practice to 1930. It analyzes the early development of pension accounting theory and practice, examines explanations of the nature of pension costs, and reports the results of a...
Financial statements, consolidated -- Great Britain -- History;Holding companies -- Great Britain -- History
The publication of consolidated accounts is an early example of innovative financial reporting procedures being introduced by U.S. companies before they were adopted in the U.K., where Nobel Industries (1922) is generally cited as the first holding...
Dissertations abstracted are: An Investigation of the Wealth Impacts of the 1933 and 1934 Securities Acts' Financial Disclosure Requirements by Chee Woo Chow;The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977: An Inquiry into the "Accounting Provisions" of...
Dissertations abstracted are: Taxation in Bretagne, 1598-1648 by James Barry Collins; The Accumulation of Capital and the Subsistence Agriculture in Brazil Since 1889 by Roberto Jose Moreira; Canadian Business & The 'Reform' Process in the 1930s by...
This article reviews the development of income presentation found in the authoritative accounting pronouncements since 1941. During this period, within the historical cost reporting model for presentation of income, emphasis has shifted from the...
