Salvador de Solózano, Bartolomé, 1544-1596;Accounting -- Spain -- History
Until very recently almost nothing was known about the life of Bartolomé Salvador de Solórzano, the author of the first Spanish treatise on double-entry bookkeeping. This paper presents the results of further research on this subject and...
Inventories -- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- United States
The legislative history of the allowance of LIFO for tax purposes is documented. The legislative process was structured around veto points of the law and yielded an examination of the political environment out of which the LIFO tax provisions...
John C. Colt was the author of a successful bookkeeping text which had many school adoptions and at least 46 editions. During an argument with Samuel Adams, his publisher, over the cost of his 5th edition, Colt killed Adams with a hatchet....
This paper concentrates on accounting aspects arising from the development of the railways. Railways in nineteenth century Britain had a major influence in reshaping some of the legislative procedures in parliament, the development of the capital...
Dissertations abstracted are: A Technical and Business Revolution: American Woolens to 1832 by Elizabeth Hitz; The Financial Panic of 1857: Two Monetary Approaches to the Economic History of the United States, 1842-59 by Edmundo Olvera Acosta; An...
