The first book on the subject of budgeting, and the first textbook on managerial accounting, were both authored by James O. McKinsey, a professor at the University of Chicago. He was also one of the main contributors to the development of...
Books reviewed are: Craswell, Allen. Audit Qualifications in Australia 1950 to 1979 Reviewed by Roland L. Madison; J. R. Edwards, Editor, Reporting Fixed Assets in Nineteenth-Century Company Accounts Reviewed by Hans V. Johnson; Louis Goldberg,...
An issue in the measurement of earnings is: Should the determination of financial position-that is, the measurement of assets and liabilities-determine income? That can be called a balance sheet or asset and liability perspective. Or should the...
Financial statements -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain;Accountants -- Professional ethics -- Great Britain
Ethics is understood as the worthiness of the rights and needs for accounting information of contending groups in society. Company law is viewed as a means by which users of financial statements rights and needs have been redressed, and which users...
Quakers -- Massachusetts -- West Falmouth;Church finance -- Accounting;Account books -- History
The village of West Falmouth, Massachusetts was settled in the 1660s by William Gifford and other Quakers who came there to avoid persecution. They lived relatively isolated from other settlers in the region. The accounting records of Prince...
Municipal budgets -- History;Budget in business -- HistorylBudget -- United States -- History
This paper examines certain interactions between American government and business which resulted in important innovations in the areas of budgeting and cost accounting early in the twentieth century. The evidence suggests that budgeting methods...
I have prepared a sketch of my father as a person rather than as a teacher of accounting, a university administrator and an author of textbooks and numerous articles in accounting journals. Hopefully this will be of help to those who did not know...
Confederate States of America. Army -- Equipment; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Davis, Varina, 1826-1906; Mississippi;
Describes buying new clothes and equipment; describes his tent accommodations; describes attending the President's last grand reception and speaking in detail with Mrs. Davis about the condition of the people in Mississippi; describes a lot of...
Harrison, Pat, 1881-1941; United States. Congress. Senate; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; Mississippi -- History; Biloxi (Miss.);
In 1959 and 1960, Alan Lomax revisited the American South to record the still-living stream of traditional music in newly developed stereo sound. The collection features some of the region's most representative musicians and styles: Delta blues...
