Sprouse's What-You-May-Call-Its: Fundamental Insight Or Monumental Mistake?,
2010
University of Mississippi
Sprouse's What-You-May-Call-Its: Fundamental Insight Or Monumental Mistake?, Sudipta Basu, Gregory B. Waymire
Accounting Historians Journal
We critically evaluate Sprouse's 1966 Journal of Accountancy article, which prodded the FASB towards a balance-sheet approach. We highlight three errors in this article. First, Sprouse confuses necessary and sufficient conditions by arguing that good accounting systems must satisfy the balance-sheet equation. Second, Sprouse's insinuation that financial analysts rely on balance-sheet analysis is contradicted by contemporary and current security-analysis textbooks, analysts' written reports, and interviews with analysts. Third, and most crucially, Sprouse does not recognize that the primary role of accounting systems is to help managers discover and exploit profitable exchange opportunities, without which firms cannot survive.
Announcements [2010, Vol. 38, No. 1]; Academy Of Accounting Historians. 2010 Vangermeersch Manuscript Award; 2nd Eiasm Workshop On Imagining Business Ie University Business School, Segovia, 19-20 May 2011; 22nd Cardiff Business School Accounting And Business History Research Unit Annual Conference At Cardiff University, 6-7 September 2010: Announcement Of Conference And Call For Papers; Conference Announcement: 2010 Research Conference Accounting In Economic Recovery And Reform, September 30, 2010, Columbus, Ohio, Academy Of Accounting Historians
Accounting Historians Journal
No abstract provided.
Academy Of Accounting Historians: Application For 2010 Membership;,
2010
University of Mississippi
Academy Of Accounting Historians: Application For 2010 Membership;, Academy Of Accounting Historians
Accounting Historians Journal
No abstract provided.
Ray Chambers And Ernest Weinwurm - Scholars In Unison On Measurement In Accounting,
2010
University of Mississippi
Ray Chambers And Ernest Weinwurm - Scholars In Unison On Measurement In Accounting, Graeme Dean, Frank L. Clarke
Accounting Historians Journal
Drawing on new evidence (Napier, 2002), we examine how ideas on measurement in accounting developed in the 1950s and 1960s. We show that for the question of measurement to be addressed properly, there is a need to consider the function of accounting. The analysis of private correspondence between Professors Ray Chambers (Sydney University, Australia) and the U.S.'s Ernest Weinwurm (DePaul University, Chicago) reveals that those ideas were nurtured in a way not previously disclosed. We provide unequivocal insights into how the latter, a scholar relatively unknown in accounting, mentored the former through the maturation of Chambers' accounting measurement ideas following …
Accounting History: Call For Research Proposals: The Second Accounting History International Emerging Scholars' Colloquium; Call For Research Proposals: The Second Accounting History International Emerging Scholars' Colloquium,
2010
University of Mississippi
Accounting History: Call For Research Proposals: The Second Accounting History International Emerging Scholars' Colloquium; Call For Research Proposals: The Second Accounting History International Emerging Scholars' Colloquium, Academy Of Accounting Historians
Accounting Historians Journal
No abstract provided.
Accounting And Financial Reporting By A Late 18th Century American Charity,
2010
University of Mississippi
Accounting And Financial Reporting By A Late 18th Century American Charity, Roger B. Daniels, Mike Braswell, Jesse D. Beeler
Accounting Historians Journal
Empirical research to date has neglected accounting and external financial reporting among 18th century American charitable institutions. Contemporary understanding of 18th century American practices is supported by evidence relating to commercial transactions primarily among colonial merchants. Our study examines the accounting and financial reporting of the Charleston Orphan House, the first municipal orphanage in America, from its inception in 1790 through its first five years of operations. The institution was established by city ordinance in 1790 which required the institution to keep a book of fair and regular accounts of all receipts and expenditures which will be subject at all …
Development Of Modern Auditing Standards: The Strange Case Of Raymond Marien And The Fraud At Interstate Hosiery Mills, 1934-1937,
2010
University of Mississippi
Development Of Modern Auditing Standards: The Strange Case Of Raymond Marien And The Fraud At Interstate Hosiery Mills, 1934-1937, Jan Richard Heier, Maria A. Leach-Lopez
Accounting Historians Journal
In February 1938, the police arrested Raymond Marien, a small, bookish man, for forging checks at Interstate Hosiery Mills, Inc. During the ensuing investigation, the New York Attorney General's office found that Marien had juggled the books of the corporation and that these accounting irregularities inflated Interstate Hosiery Mills' assets by $1.9 million or about 40% of the company's assets. In an irony of history, the company's external auditors, as it turned out, employed Marien. The extensive investigation conducted by the SEC into Marien's manipulations found that, save for forged checks amounting to about $2,000, Marien and others were exonerated …
Changing Legitimacy Narratives About Professional Ethics And Independence In The 1930'S Journal Of Accountancy,
2010
University of Mississippi
Changing Legitimacy Narratives About Professional Ethics And Independence In The 1930'S Journal Of Accountancy, Diane Roberts
Accounting Historians Journal
The 1930s in the U.S. were marked by an economic crisis, governmental regulatory response, and a significant audit failure. This paper examines the profession's struggle for legitimacy during these times through its choice of narratives regarding professional ethics and independence as revealed in the national professional organization's monthly, the Journal of Accountancy. Initially ethics is a state-of-mind or narrative of character was used but transitioned to a more objectively determinable narrative of technique as the decade progressed. To counter governmental regulation, the profession attempted to shift the independence discourse away from regulation of accountants to regulation of client companies.
Patterns Of Accounting History Literature: Movements At The Beginning Of The 21st Century,
2010
University of Mississippi
Patterns Of Accounting History Literature: Movements At The Beginning Of The 21st Century, Juan Banos-Sanchez Matamoros, Fernando Gutierrez-Hidalgo
Accounting Historians Journal
This paper addresses and updates the challenge made by Carmona [2004] regarding the need to broaden the accounting history literature into periods, settings, and sectors outside those traditionally published in specialist journals. For this purpose, we review three international journals the Accounting Historians Journal; Accounting, Business & Financial History; and Accounting History and two national publications Rivista di Contabilita e Cultura Aziendali (Italy) and De Computis (Spain) over the period 2000-2008. The results show changes in the publishing patterns of accounting history research. We also explore whether non-Anglo-Saxon researchers have widened the settings, periods, and sectors studied from those of …
Market For Luca Pacioli's Summa De Arithmetica: Some Comments,
2010
University of Mississippi
Market For Luca Pacioli's Summa De Arithmetica: Some Comments, Basil S. Yamey
Accounting Historians Journal
This paper explains why Pacioli's exposition of double-entry bookkeeping, published in his Summa of 1494, was neither an effective reference text for merchants nor a satisfactory text for their sons. In doing so, the paper contradicts some of the points made in the interesting and wide-ranging article by Sangster, Stoner, and McCarthy in the June 2008 issue of this journal.
Contents [2010, Vol. 37, No. 2]; Statement Of Policy [2010, Vol. 37, No. 2]; Guide For Manuscript Submission [2010, Vol. 37, No. 2; Thanks From The Co-Editors,
2010
University of Mississippi
Contents [2010, Vol. 37, No. 2]; Statement Of Policy [2010, Vol. 37, No. 2]; Guide For Manuscript Submission [2010, Vol. 37, No. 2; Thanks From The Co-Editors, Academy Of Accounting Historians
Accounting Historians Journal
The prefatory matter includes: List of the Academy officers and trustees, editorial staff and board, issue cover page, the table of contents, Statement of Policy, Guide for Submitting Manuscripts, and Thanks from the Co-Editors.
Cpa Client Tax Letter, January/February/March 2010,
2010
University of Mississippi
Cpa Client Tax Letter, January/February/March 2010, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)
Newsletters
No abstract provided.
Taxation And Gendered Citizenship,
2010
Northwestern University School of Law
Taxation And Gendered Citizenship, Nancy Staudt
Faculty Working Papers
This essay notes that the feminist tax policy theorists have made numerous important contributions to our understanding of tax policy's affect on women's lives and experiences. It argues that in doing so, the extant literature has also prioritized the idea of citizenship rights but has failed to acknowledge the importance of citizenship obligations and duties.
Constitutional Politics And Balanced Budgets,
2010
Northwestern University School of Law
Constitutional Politics And Balanced Budgets, Nancy Staudt
Faculty Working Papers
Unbalanced budgets have sparked decades of debate among legislators, scholars, and the public at large. Although the controversy has abated somewhat in recent years, many continue to believe that Congress has a tendency to pursue a level of public debt that is both inefficient and unfair. Foremost among those who criticize the federal budgeting process are fiscal constitutionalists, a group of public choice scholars who believe the constitutional constraints are the only means by which the public will obtain protection from legislative fiscal irresponsibility. This article explores the public choice argument for a balanced budget amendment and argues that it …
Taxation Without Representation,
2010
Northwestern University School of Law
Taxation Without Representation, Nancy Staudt
Faculty Working Papers
Poll taxes are unconstitutional and yet Americans continue to link political rights to economic status. When taxpayers claim, "We pay taxes and therefore should decide how public monies are spent," they claim a privileged position in society based on their monetary contributions to the state and federal fiscal position that, by implication, nontaxpaying Americans should not have. Not only do taxpayers claim they deserve special political privileges, but the law itself continues to couple political rights to taxpaying status in ways that legal scholars have largely left unexplored. This article examines a range of political benefits tied to the payment …
Accounting Historians Journal, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1 [Whole Issue],
2010
University of Mississippi
Accounting Historians Journal, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1 [Whole Issue]
Accounting Historians Journal
June issue
Accounting Trends And Techniques, 64th Annual Survey 2010 Edition,
2010
University of Mississippi
Accounting Trends And Techniques, 64th Annual Survey 2010 Edition, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)
Accounting Trends and Techniques
No abstract provided.
In Our Opinion… , March 2010,
2010
University of Mississippi
In Our Opinion… , March 2010, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Audit And Attest Standards Team
Newsletters
No abstract provided.
Academy Of Accounting Historians: Application For 2010 Membership; Application For 2010 Membership,
2010
University of Mississippi
Academy Of Accounting Historians: Application For 2010 Membership; Application For 2010 Membership, Academy Of Accounting Historians
Accounting Historians Journal
No abstract provided.
Financial Reporting In 1920: The Case Of Industrial Companies;,
2010
University of Mississippi
Financial Reporting In 1920: The Case Of Industrial Companies;, Jeffrey J. Archambault, Marie E. Archambault
Accounting Historians Journal
This study uses the 1920 Moody's Analysis of Industrial Investments to assess the extent of financial reporting by U.S. industrial companies. The reporting of an income statement and a balance sheet, as well as the amount of disclosure in both of these statements, is examined empirically to determine which economic factors influence this reporting. The results show that corporate-governance, operating, and financing factors all significantly influence the reporting of financial statements and the extent of disclosure within those statements. However, the significant factors vary across the two financial statements and the two decisions considered (reporting a particular statement and the …
