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Salmagundi, Gloria Vollmers Jan 2012

Salmagundi, Gloria Vollmers

Accounting Historians Journal

No abstract provided.


Accounting History: Call For Papers: Accounting's Past In Sport Jan 2012

Accounting History: Call For Papers: Accounting's Past In Sport

Accounting Historians Journal

Call for papers: Accounting's past in sport


In Antitrust We (Do Not) Trust, Christopher L. Colvin Jan 2012

In Antitrust We (Do Not) Trust, Christopher L. Colvin

Accounting Historians Journal

No abstract provided.


How A Medieval Friar Forever Changed Finance, Academy Of Accounting Historians Jan 2012

How A Medieval Friar Forever Changed Finance, Academy Of Accounting Historians

Accounting Historians Journal

No abstract provided.


Academy Of Accounting Historians: Application For 2012 Membership Jan 2012

Academy Of Accounting Historians: Application For 2012 Membership

Accounting Historians Journal

Application for 2012 membership


Call For Nominations: The Academy Of Accounting Historians 2012 Vangermeersch Manuscript Award, Academy Of Accounting Historians Jan 2012

Call For Nominations: The Academy Of Accounting Historians 2012 Vangermeersch Manuscript Award, Academy Of Accounting Historians

Accounting Historians Journal

Vangermeersch (Richard G. J.) Manuscript Award


Xii National Conference Of The Italian Society Of Accounting History: Call For Papers; Ragioneria And Accounting Between 19th And 20th Centuries: A Comparison In Trends And Theories, Italian Society Of Accounting History Accounting History Jan 2012

Xii National Conference Of The Italian Society Of Accounting History: Call For Papers; Ragioneria And Accounting Between 19th And 20th Centuries: A Comparison In Trends And Theories, Italian Society Of Accounting History Accounting History

Accounting Historians Journal

No abstract provided.


Pacioli's Forgotten Book: The Merchant's Ricordanze, Alan Sangster, Gregory N. Stoner, Paul De Lange, Brendan O'Connell Jan 2012

Pacioli's Forgotten Book: The Merchant's Ricordanze, Alan Sangster, Gregory N. Stoner, Paul De Lange, Brendan O'Connell

Accounting Historians Journal

Double entry bookkeeping emerged by the end of the 13th century and was adopted by, for example, the Datini of Prato during the 1380s. In the transition from single to double entry evident in the Datini Archives, initially accounting records were kept in an account book called a Ricordanze. Record books of this name were typical of Tuscany and, when such books were first used in Tuscany, businessmen began to use them also as a form of personal diary and autobiographical record. Others not in business followed suit and maintained purely personal biographical diaries of the same name. For those …


Objectives Of Financial Reporting, Aboriginal Cost, And Pooling Of Interests Accounting, Hugo Nurnberg Jan 2012

Objectives Of Financial Reporting, Aboriginal Cost, And Pooling Of Interests Accounting, Hugo Nurnberg

Accounting Historians Journal

Through the years, pooling of interest accounting was criticized as contrary to the decision usefulness objective of financial reporting and potentially misleading to stockholders and creditors, the assumed principal users of financial reports. This paper does not dispute those criticisms. It demonstrates, however, that there were some very good reasons for permitting pooling accounting for certain business combinations when the method was developed in the 1940s. At that time, the basic objectives of financial accounting encompassed stewardship and decision usefulness for multiple users, including public utility regulators and public policy makers. Pooling accounting developed in part to satisfy the information …


Accounting Historians Journal, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 1 [Whole Issue] Jan 2012

Accounting Historians Journal, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 1 [Whole Issue]

Accounting Historians Journal

June issue


Old Du Pont Company's Accounting System Lasting A Hundred Years: An Overlooked Accounting System, Daijiro Fujimura Jan 2012

Old Du Pont Company's Accounting System Lasting A Hundred Years: An Overlooked Accounting System, Daijiro Fujimura

Accounting Historians Journal

Accounting historians have not yet realized that there existed another complete accounting system before the formation of the modern accounting system of today which Johnson and Kaplan's Relevance Lost characterizes by the integration of cost and financial accounts supported by inventory costing. In that earlier accounting system, cost and profit calculations were made in a past particular ledger account or accounts, namely trading account(s), where accounting practices opposed to inventory costing and integration were used. The historical existence of that accounting system is overlooked by accounting historians. The example of the old Du Pont Company (DPC) this paper presents will …


Examining Frank Adair Jr. As An African American Cpa Pioneer: A Historical Note, Keith Hollingsworth Jan 2012

Examining Frank Adair Jr. As An African American Cpa Pioneer: A Historical Note, Keith Hollingsworth

Accounting Historians Journal

In 1932, Frank Adair Jr. achieved his Certified Public Accountant (CPA) status as the sixth African American CPA in the US and only the second in the Deep South. Although his active professional career was brief (5 years), it typifies not only the difficulty experienced by an African American achieving this designation in the Jim Crow South, but also the factors that were necessary for such an achievement to occur in that time period. First, Adair Jr. practiced in a dynamic and vibrant segregated business community. Second, he was educated at a black college. An African American who wanted to …


Academy Of Accounting Historians: Application For 2013 Membership; Application For 2013 Membership, Academy Of Accounting Historians Jan 2012

Academy Of Accounting Historians: Application For 2013 Membership; Application For 2013 Membership, Academy Of Accounting Historians

Accounting Historians Journal

No abstract provided.


Accounting Historians Journal, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 2 [Whole Issue] Jan 2012

Accounting Historians Journal, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 2 [Whole Issue]

Accounting Historians Journal

December issue


Contents [2011, Vol. 38, No. 1]; Statement Of Policy [2011, Vol. 38, No. 1]; Guide For Manuscript Submission [2011, Vol. 38, No. 1]; Note From The Co-Editors, Academy Of Accounting Historians Jan 2011

Contents [2011, Vol. 38, No. 1]; Statement Of Policy [2011, Vol. 38, No. 1]; Guide For Manuscript Submission [2011, Vol. 38, No. 1]; Note 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 Notes from the Co-Editors, 2010 Manuscript awards.


Call For Submissions: 2011 Vangermeersch Manuscript Award, Academy Of Accounting Historians Jan 2011

Call For Submissions: 2011 Vangermeersch Manuscript Award, Academy Of Accounting Historians

Accounting Historians Journal

No abstract provided.


Tracing The Development Of Accounting Thought By Analyzing Content, Communication, And Quality Of Accounting Research Over Time, Frank A. Badua, Gary John Previts, Miklos A. Vasarhelyi Jan 2011

Tracing The Development Of Accounting Thought By Analyzing Content, Communication, And Quality Of Accounting Research Over Time, Frank A. Badua, Gary John Previts, Miklos A. Vasarhelyi

Accounting Historians Journal

This paper analyzes the longitudinal development of accounting thought by characterizing the content of accounting research over several decades (1963 to 2003). The paper also investigates the interaction among accounting scholars and examines the relationship of research quality, topical coverage, methodological tools, and citation behavior. Thus, this analysis describes how accounting research has evolved, both in its content and in the way it has been used and perceived by its adherent scholars.


Role Of Financial Accounting In Investing In 1870s America, Joel E. Thompson Jan 2011

Role Of Financial Accounting In Investing In 1870s America, Joel E. Thompson

Accounting Historians Journal

The objectives of this study are to understand better the development of investment practices and the information that was available for those practices during the turbulent decade of the 1870s. This was a time of panic, depression, and manipulations by insiders. Nevertheless, outsiders chose to speculate and invest in corporate securities in Wall Street. Consequently, authors began to provide more specific investment advice, some of which required the use of earnings and other financial-accounting information. This study describes the availability of that information in the books and periodicals in an age dominated by railroad kings.


Accounting History Review Conference At Cardiff University, 12th-13th September 2011: Announcement And Call For Papers, Cardiff University. Cardiff Business School Cardiff Business School Jan 2011

Accounting History Review Conference At Cardiff University, 12th-13th September 2011: Announcement And Call For Papers, Cardiff University. Cardiff Business School Cardiff Business School

Accounting Historians Journal

No abstract provided.


Accounting History: Call For Research Proposals: The Second Accounting History International Emerging Scholars' Colloquium; Academy Of Accounting Historians: Application For 2010 Membership; Call For Research Proposals: The Second Accounting History International Emerging Scholars' Colloquium; Application For 2010 Membership, Academy Of Accounting Historians Jan 2011

Accounting History: Call For Research Proposals: The Second Accounting History International Emerging Scholars' Colloquium; Academy Of Accounting Historians: Application For 2010 Membership; Call For Research Proposals: The Second Accounting History International Emerging Scholars' Colloquium; Application For 2010 Membership, Academy Of Accounting Historians

Accounting Historians Journal

No abstract provided.


Accounting Historians Journal, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 1 [Whole Issue] Jan 2011

Accounting Historians Journal, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 1 [Whole Issue]

Accounting Historians Journal

June issue


Accounting On English Landed Estates During The Agricultural Revolution -- A Textbook Perspective, John Richard Edwards Jan 2011

Accounting On English Landed Estates During The Agricultural Revolution -- A Textbook Perspective, John Richard Edwards

Accounting Historians Journal

The agricultural revolution has been portrayed as the time when landowners began to display a capitalist mentality. This paper seeks to add to our knowledge of the use of accounting for managerial purposes during this period by exploring the content of treatises advocating different ways of accounting on landed estates. Two research questions are addressed. The first is the degree of inter-relationship between accounting methods charge-and-discharge accounting (CDA) and double-entry bookkeeping that have been presented in the literature as distinct in terms of their objectives and operation. The second objective is to assess the extent to which CDA could be …


Accounting History: Announcement: The Third Accounting History International Emerging Scholars' Colloquium; Announcement: The Third Accounting History International Emerging Scholars' Colloquium, Academy Of Accounting Historians Jan 2011

Accounting History: Announcement: The Third Accounting History International Emerging Scholars' Colloquium; Announcement: The Third Accounting History International Emerging Scholars' Colloquium, Academy Of Accounting Historians

Accounting Historians Journal

No abstract provided.


In Defense Of Pacioli, Alan Sangster, Gregory N. Stoner, Patricia Mccarthy Jan 2011

In Defense Of Pacioli, Alan Sangster, Gregory N. Stoner, Patricia Mccarthy

Accounting Historians Journal

This paper responds to Basil Yamey's paper in the December 2010 issue of this journal. In that paper, Professor Yamey contradicts some of the points made in our 2008 paper, also in this journal, in which we conclude that Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita (1494) was written primarily for merchants and their sons. He does so by attempting to explain why Pacioli's exposition of double-entry bookkeeping, De Computis et Scripturis, was neither an effective reference text for merchants nor a satisfactory school text for their sons. We are unconvinced by Professor Yamey's argument and counter it in …


Two-Currency, Nostro And Vostro Accounts: Historical Notes, 1400-1800, Basil S. Yamey Jan 2011

Two-Currency, Nostro And Vostro Accounts: Historical Notes, 1400-1800, Basil S. Yamey

Accounting Historians Journal

Suppose a merchant in country A has dealings with an agent in country B. The indebtedness between the merchant (principal) and his foreign correspondent (agent) has to be settled in terms of B's currency. Fluctuations in the exchange rate give rise to gains or losses, borne by the merchant. This paper discusses one accounting treatment (in the principal's ledger) of the dealings between domestic principal and foreign agent. It also considers the treatment where the merchant serves as agent for a foreign principal. The discussion is illustrated by references to two 15th century Italian ledgers and to passages in several …


Academy Of Accounting Historians: Application For 2012 Membership; Application For 2012 Membership, Academy Of Accounting Historians Jan 2011

Academy Of Accounting Historians: Application For 2012 Membership; Application For 2012 Membership, Academy Of Accounting Historians

Accounting Historians Journal

No abstract provided.


First External Auditors Of The Hudson's Bay Company, 1866, Gary P. Spraakman Jan 2011

First External Auditors Of The Hudson's Bay Company, 1866, Gary P. Spraakman

Accounting Historians Journal

At the request of shareholders, the Hudson's Bay Company had its financial statements audited for the first time in 1866. Two external auditors were hired, one for the shareholders and one for management. Three inter-related forces led to this decision: (1) most importantly, the company's shareholders demanded audited financial statements, (2) there was emerging in London at the time the capacity and willingness among London accountants to provide external audit services, and (3) the British Parliament passed various acts that required financial statements of companies in other industries to be audited. After a few years, only the management's external auditor …


From Mellmott To Madoff: History In The (Re) Making, Aida Sy, Tony Tinker Jan 2011

From Mellmott To Madoff: History In The (Re) Making, Aida Sy, Tony Tinker

Accounting Historians Journal

No abstract provided.


Accounting Historians Journal, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 2 [Whole Issue] Jan 2011

Accounting Historians Journal, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 2 [Whole Issue]

Accounting Historians Journal

December issue


Earnings Management Among Firms During The Pre-Sec Area: A Benford's Law Analysis, Jeffrey J. Archambault, Marie E. Archambault Jan 2011

Earnings Management Among Firms During The Pre-Sec Area: A Benford's Law Analysis, Jeffrey J. Archambault, Marie E. Archambault

Accounting Historians Journal

This paper examines the existence of financial statement manipulation in the U.S. during a time period when many of the current motivations did not exist. The study looks for types of manipulations that would be motivated by the pre-SEC operating environment. To examine this issue, a sample of U.S. firms from the 1915 Moody's Analyses of Investments is divided into industrial firms, railroads, and utilities. The railroad and utility companies faced rate regulation during this time period, providing incentives to manipulate the financial reports so as to maximize the rate received. Industrial firms were not regulated. These companies wanted to …