Contemporary Studies in the Evolution of Accounting Thought
Author: Michael Chatfield
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 436
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The History of Accounting (RLE Accounting)
Author: Michael Chatfield
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-05
Total Pages: 678
ISBN-13: 1134675453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobal in scope, accounting has had its share of great thinkers and practitioners, from Luca Pacioloi, the father of accounting, to R. J. Chambers, W. W. Cooper, Yuji Ijiri, Stephen A. Zeff and other figures. This encyclopedia presents more than 400 entries that focus on such subjects as publications in the field, institutional bodies, accounting and economic concepts, accounting issues, authors in accounting, records, leaders in the profession, accounting in various countries, financial court cases, accounting exams and historical researchers.
Henry Rand Hatfield
Author: Stephen A. Zeff
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9780762306220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHenry Rand Hatfield (1866-1945) was the first dean of the Chicago business school and the second dean of the Berkeley business school. He was an authority on early bookkeeping history. Drawing on the archives at the Northwestern University among others, this book presents a biographical study of a full-time accounting professor in a US university.
The Routledge Companion to Accounting History
Author: John Richard Edwards
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-05-07
Total Pages: 637
ISBN-13: 1135230889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Companion to Accounting History shows how the seemingly innocuous practice of accounting has pervaded human existence in fascinating ways at numerous times and places; from ancient civilisations to the modern day, and from the personal to the political. Placing the history of accounting in context with other fields of study, the collection gives invaluable insights to subjects such as the rise of capitalism, the control of labour, gender and family relationships, racial exploitation, the functioning of the state, and the pursuit of military conflict. An engaging and comprehensive overview also examining geographical differences, this Companion is split into key sections, which explore: changing technologies used to represent financial and other data historical development of accounting theory and practice accounting institutions and those who perform accounting accountancy and the economy accounting, society, and culture the role of accounting in the government, protection and financing of states including chapters on the important role played by accountancy in religious organizations, a review of how the discipline is portrayed in fine art and popular culture, and analysis of sharp practice and corporate scandals. The Routledge Companion to Accounting History has a breadth of coverage that is unmatched in this growing area of study. Bringing together leading writers in the field, this is an essential reference work for any student of accounting, business and management, and history.
Accounting is an Evolved Economic Institution
Author: Gregory B. Waymire
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1601981600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccounting is an Evolved Economic Institution summarizes accounting history over the past ten thousand years and can be used as a primer of accounting history.
Harold Cecil Edey
Author: Martin E. Persson
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2019-09-30
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1789736692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarold Cecil Edey was instrumental in the development of British accounting thought in the mid-1900s, and his scholarship influenced a generation of students. This edited collection of his unpublished manuscripts sheds light on his contribution to modern accounting thought.
Two Hundred Years of Accounting Research
Author: Richard Mattessich
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-11-15
Total Pages: 630
ISBN-13: 1135980586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first and only book to offer a comprehensive survey of accounting research on a broad international scale for the last two centuries. Its main emphasis is on accounting research in the English, German, Italian, French and Spanish language areas; it also contains chapters dealing with research in Finland, the Netherlands, Scand
Accounting for Growth
Author: Margaret Levenstein
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780804730037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study of information systems in American business during the quarter-century before World War I takes as its starting point the way in which the Dow Chemical Company constructed and reconstructed its internal information systems. It shows how changes in information systems affected Dow's organization and management, as well as the extent of its technological innovation.
Accounting by the First Public Company
Author: Warwick Funnell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-12
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1134747551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United Dutch East India Company was the first public company, preceding the formation of the English East-India Company by over 40 years. Its fame as the first public company which heralded the transition from feudalism to modern capitalism and its remarkable financial success for nearly two centuries ensure its importance in the history of capitalism. Although a publicly owned, highly complex and diversified business, and commonly agreed to be the largest and most profitable business in the 17th century, throughout its existence the Dutch East-India Company never produced public accounts of its financial affairs which would have allowed investors to judge the performance of the Company. Its financial accounting, which changed little during its lifetime, was not designed as an aid to rational investment decision-making by communicating the Company’s financial performance but to be a means of promoting sound stewardship by senior management. This study examines the contributions of accounting to the remarkable success of the Dutch East-India Company and the influences on these accounting practices. From the time that the German economic historian Werner Sombart proposed that accounting techniques, most especially double-entry bookkeeping, were critical to the development of modern capitalism and the public company, historians and accounting scholars have debated the extent and importance of these contributions. The Dutch East-India Company was a capitalistic enterprise that had a public, permanent capital and its principal objective was to continually increase profit by reinvesting its returns in the business. Rather than the organisation and management of the Dutch East-India Company reflecting the perceived benefits of a particular bookkeeping method, the supremacy that it achieved and maintained in a very hazardous business at a time of recurring conflict between European states was a consequence of the practicalities of 17th century business and The Netherlands’ unique, threatening natural environment which shaped its social and political institutions.
Reporting Fixed Assets in Nineteenth-Century Company Accounts
Author: J. Edwards
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-26
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 1134706537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the way in which businessmen responded to the new problem of accounting for fixed assets when measuring periodic profit. The book is divided into four sections: the first embraces items that examine asset valuation procedures in general use during the nineteenth century. The second focuses on the particular practices that became popular among public utility companies. The third comprises studies on influences, particularly legal ones on the treatment of fixed assets in company accounts. The final section examines the likely economic effect of using particular valuation procedures and is another area where available material is scarce. Of the twenty-seven items included, seven were written during the nineteenth century and the remainder during the twentieth. Their emphasis is practical rather than theoretical: they set out the various ways in which companies accounted for fixed assets and provide some explanation for the choices made.
