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Past: Prologue For The Future, Robert H. Colson Oct 2001

Past: Prologue For The Future, Robert H. Colson

Accounting Historians Notebook

As often occurs when someone retires from a position, my predecessor, Jim Craig, left behind as many things as possible to ease the transition of his successor. Among the items that have waited patiently for my attention is a desk drawer filled with cassette tapes of past interviews and symposia. Journal Editor Tom Morris and I went through these tapes and initially decided to discard them because their journalistic purpose had been fulfilled. They had been used to clarify points in interviews and symposia before their publication in the Journal. Because the published version becomes the formal, public record of …


Possibility Of And Potential For Misclassification Of Professional Accountants In Antiquity, Stanley C. W. Salvary Oct 1996

Possibility Of And Potential For Misclassification Of Professional Accountants In Antiquity, Stanley C. W. Salvary

Accounting Historians Notebook

The title of this brief note lends itself to a very parochial interpretation; however, the implications of this note are much broader than its title intimates. This paper could very well have been entitled: An Appreciation of Some Research Related Problems in Classifying Professionals in Antiquity: A Research Agenda. This alternate title aptly limits the parochial overtone. However, this note revolves around accounting history and focuses on three pervasive points.


Accounting History As A Worthwhile Study, William T. Baxter Mar 1981

Accounting History As A Worthwhile Study, William T. Baxter

Accounting Historians Notebook

The following article is a transcription of Professor Baxter's comments at the banquet at the Third International Congress of Accounting Historians held in August, 1980.