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...
Accountants -- Biography;American Technical Society. Accountancy and Business Management
A list of the forty-six accountants who were authors or consultants for the seven volume encyclopedia--Accountancy and Business Management published by the American Technical Society in 1909.
Indeed the challenges facing accounting historians--namely to initiate meaningful applications of quantitative analysis, to recapture a "lost century" of accounting history and to build toward a more complete literature about the history of...
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.
Books reviewed are: Reflections OF A RenaissanceScholar: Carl Devine's Essays in Accounting Theory, Volumes I-V, Reviewed by Edward Arrington; Hall, William D. Accounting and Auditing: Thoughts on Forty Years in Practice and Education. Authur...
Corporations -- Taxation -- History;Income tax -- History;Taxation -- History
Taxpayers and taxing jurisdictions are, by definition and motivation, opposing forces and, therefore, in continual conflict. Taxpayers strive to minimize their tax liabilities while taxing jurisdictions seek ways to maximize their tax revenues. The...
Anecdotes -- Accounting;Accounting -- History -- Bibliography
Subtitles are: Book Mart; Contact Notes; Historical Antecedents; Historical Potpourri; History in Print; Out of the Past; Research Notes; Research Resources; Through the Ages
Announcements include: Academy of Accounting Historians 1988 accounting history manuscript award, the Hourglass Award announcement, table of contents for Accounting and Business Research summer 1987, The Accounting Review, July 1987, Accounting and...
The editors of the Journal have chosen in this issue to reprint the comments of two distinguished speakers, Thomas Cullen Roberts and James G. Cannon, on the occasion of the annual meeting of The American Association of Public Accountants at the...
As published on pp. 116-124, Twenty-First Anniversary Year-Book, (1908) of the American Association of Public Accountants (AAPA), forerunner of the American Institute of CPAs, these two addresses were presented at the AAPA annual banquet on October...
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.
Recent archeological research offers revolutionary insight about the precursor of abstract counting and pictographic as well as ideographic writing. This precursor was a data processing system in which simple (and later complex) clay tokens of...
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...
Biography as a type of accounting history is worthy of research effort. However, it is very important that the researcher realize that he is undertaking a formidable task. The biographer should study the basic psychological and behavioral patterns...
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...
International Accounting History Symposium;Bookkeeping -- Germany -- History;Auditing -- Germany -- History
Summary of two papers: State of Bookkeeping in Upper Germany at the Time of the Fuggers and Welsers, by Hermann Kellenbenz; Survey of the Development of Auditing in Germany, by Rosa-Elizabeth Gassmann
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...
