House of Brown;Brown Brothers and Company;Banks and Banking -- Accounting
This article focuses on the contents of two nineteenth-century letters which discuss the allocation of income among the partners of a leading Anglo-American merchant banking firm, the House of Brown. The writers debate alternative methods of...
Hechstetter, Daniel, the Younger, 1565?-1640;Copper mines and mining -- Costs;Account books -- History;Mines Royal Company
The growing literature on the history of cost and management accounting has left virtually unexplored the developments prior to the British industrial revolution. Recently the business notebooks of Daniel Hechstetter, the German manager of an...
Sweeney, Henry W. (Henry Whitcomb), b. 1898-; Scott, DR, 1887-1954;Canning, John Bennett;de Paula, Frederic Rudolf Mackley, 1882-
Short biographical sketches of Henry Whitcom Sweeney by A.N. Mosich, DR Scott by James R. Morton, John Bennett Canning by William Robert Smith, and F.R.M. de Paula by Stephen A. Zeff.
Castillo, Diego del. Tratado de Cuentas;Executors and administrators -- Spain -- Accounting -- History;Estates -- Spain -- History
This paper examines an early modern contribution to the literature on stewardship accounting, the Tratado de Cuentas or Treatise on Accounts, by Diego del Castillo, a sixteenth-century Spanish jurist.