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Accounting Historians Notebook
Accounting -- Study and teaching; American Association of Public Accountants. Committee on Education; Accounting -- Bibliography
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Five-Foot Accounting Shelf, Elliott L. Slocum, Alfred Robert Roberts
Five-Foot Accounting Shelf, Elliott L. Slocum, Alfred Robert Roberts
Accounting Historians Notebook
Early pioneers of the accounting profession devoted much of their energy toward two goals: legal recognition as a profession and a professional education for its members. During the first twenty years of this century, significant progress was made in achieving legal recognition, but the question of professional education continued to be a perplexing problem. The question continued to be posed: What knowledge is needed to prepare a person to enter the profession of accountancy? This paper is a review of some early efforts to answer the question and one effort in particular: the five-foot accounting shelf.