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...
This paper discusses Stuart Chase and his thoughts on social accounting and the economics of waste and inefficiency. An evolutionary socialist, economist, and CPA, Chase saw waste as the major socioeconomic problem of our time, and argued that...
Tax accounting -- Australia -- History;Corporations -- Taxation -- Australia
Tax effect accounting was introduced into Australia a little over a decade ago. The treatment of the tax effect of losses carried forward and the trading stock valuation adjustment introduced further complications to this new aspect of corporate...
Financial statements -- Standards -- History;Accounting -- Standards -- History
The debate among accounting theoreticians as to the content and usefulness of the Financial Accounting Standards Board's concept statements and its conceptual framework project can better be understood if a perspective of prior "framework" efforts...
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...
Accounting writers have invariably referred to the accounting literature of the 1960s and 1970s as the earliest source of discussion about the impact of budgets upon manager behaviour. This short paper identifies a number of accounting writers of...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Abstract: Confusion as to the real nature of commercial goodwill is well-entrenched in the literature, as evidenced by accountants' attention to valuation formulae rather than the underlying assets. The paper traces conceptual clarification of...
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...
Assets (Accounting);Corporations -- Accounting;Financial statements -- United States -- History;Valuations -- Corporations
The paper is a historical study of the asset revaluation movement and the subsequent establishment of the cost basis in the United States. A survey of the corporate report leads to a generalization that the asset revaluations were fundamentally the...
Dissertation abstracted are: Technology and Organization: Steel Rail Innovation and Railroad Survivorship in the American Manufacturing Region, 1860-1890 by David Paul Marple; The State and the Beginnings of the Railroad Grandes Lignes Network in...
Books reviewed are: Committee on Commemoration of One Hundred Years of Modern Accounting, Japan Accounting Association, One Hundred Years of Modern Accounting Reviewed by Kiyomitsu Arai; F. R. M. De Paula, Developments in Accounting Reviewed by...
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...
