Accountants -- Professional ethics -- Standards -- United States
This book was begun merely to bring up to date Professional Ethics of Public Accounting, published in 1946, but it has become a much more ambitious project, despite the fact that much of the earlier material is included here. A lot has happened to...
Reckoning boards;Tallies;Accounting machines -- History
How could our ancestors do accounting while they were still illiterate and had no paper? The answer is that they used the tally and the checkerboard. In medieval Europe, the tally was normally a short stick on which notches were cut to represent...
John C. Colt was the author of a successful bookkeeping text which had many school adoptions and at least 46 editions. During an argument with Samuel Adams, his publisher, over the cost of his 5th edition, Colt killed Adams with a hatchet....