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American Thought To 1921 Concerning Accounting For Changing Prices, Walker Eugene Fesmire

Accounting Historians Notebook

Would a review of the earlier writings by accountants on inflation reveal that many ideas which we now view as new or recent are actually restatement of earlier ideas or concepts? This article will review the ideas of those that considered the problem between 1918 and 1921. Included in the review will be the problems identified by those early writers and the obstacles that they found to the implementation of solutions.