Affleck, Thomas, 1812-1868. The Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book
Cotton growing -- Accounting
During the antebellum period of United States history, the southern states generated an unprecedented amount of wealth through a well developed plantation system that produced vast quantities of cotton, sugar, and tobacco. To date, very little has...
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...
This bibliography is a continuation of those published in R. H. Parker (ed.) Bibliographies for Accounting Historians (New York, Arno Press, 1980). It has been drawn up upon the same principles and the arrangement is the same. Most items date from...
Cost Accounting -- History;Hamilton, Robert, 1743-1829. Introduction to Merchandise
Almost contemporaneously with The Wealth of Nations, a treatise on bookkeeping and accounts was published which shows a lucid awareness of several cost issues, especially of the futility of attempting to allocate common or joint cost. This book is...
Titles of announcements include: Working papers inaugurated; Chatfield to speak at 2nd annual meeting; Second annual business meeting of The Academy, August 20th; Academy incorporates; New Orleans reminders; Membership increases; Meeting agenda,...
The dissertation abstracted is: From Conflict to Consensus: The American Institute of Accountants and the Professionalization of Public Accountancy, 1886-1940 by Paul Joseph Miranti, Jr.
In Australia, Adolf Alexander Fitzgerald (1890-1969) was the outstanding accounting figure of his time. Practitioner, academic, lecturer, writer and editor, researcher, advisor to governments and active participant in many economic, financial and...
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...
The conceptual and theoretical development of cost accounting has been at a standstill for several decades, despite its poor state and drastic changes in its environment. The concept of cost itself and related concepts are both unclear and...
Financial Accounting Standards Board;Study Group on the Objectives of Financial Statements;Trueblood Report
The release of the report of the Study Group on the Objectives of Financial Statements--the "Trueblood Committee Report"--in October, 1973, has begun to set in motion a chain of events and will likely be the initial step in a significant episode of...
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...
Books reviewed are: LaCapra, Dominick.—History Criticism. and Porter, Dale L. The Emergence of the Past-A Theory of Historical Explanation. Reviewed By Barbara D. Merino; Yamey, B. S., Edey, H. C. and Thomson, H. W. Accounting in England and...
Accounting -- History -- Bibliography;Journal of Accountancy
In late 1985, members of the Academy of Accounting Historians were invited to participate in the centennial celebration of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in 1987 by submitting essays on historical accounting topics for...
Municipal finance -- Accounting -- History;Nau, Carl Henry, 1867- -- Portraits;Portraits -- Nau, Carl Henry, 1867-
Despite the fact that municipal accounting was a significant and permanent reform of the Progressive era, historians have failed to accord accountants proper credit for their leadership roles. Ohio was an important Progressive state and is...
Voluntary health agencies -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States;Charities -- Accounting -- Standards -- United States
This article chronicles and compares the attempts made over the years by Voluntary Health and Welfare Organizations (VHWO), accountants and accounting bodies to determine VHWO accounting principles. Also discussed are the events that led to the...
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...
