ABSTRACT
Global in scope, accounting has had its share of great thinkers and practitioners, from Luca Pacioloi, the father of accounting, to R. J. Chambers, W. W. Cooper, Yuji Ijiri, Stephen A. Zeff and other figures. This encyclopedia presents more than 400 entries that focus on such subjects as publications in the field, institutional bodies, accounting and economic concepts, accounting issues, authors in accounting, records, leaders in the profession, accounting in various countries, financial court cases, accounting exams and historical researchers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |53 pages
A
entry |1 pages
A Statement of Basic Accounting Theory (ASOBAT)
entry |1 pages
Academy of Accounting Historians
entry |2 pages
Accounting and the Accountant: Portrayals
entry |3 pages
Accounting Education in the United States
entry |2 pages
Accounting Hall of Fame
entry |4 pages
Accounting Principles Board (1959–1973)
entry |3 pages
Accounting Research Bulletins
entry |4 pages
Accounting Research Studies
entry |1 pages
Accounting Series Release No. 190
entry |1 pages
Accretion Concept of Income
entry |1 pages
Accrual Accounting
entry |2 pages
Activity Based Costing
entry |1 pages
Advertising by Accountants
entry |2 pages
Agency Theory
entry |2 pages
Agricultural Accounting
entry |1 pages
Alberti del Giudice
entry |2 pages
American Accounting Association
entry |9 pages
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
entry |1 pages
An Introduction to Corporate Accounting Standards
entry |1 pages
Andersen, Arthur E. (1885–1947)
entry |1 pages
Antoni, Tito (1915–)
entry |1 pages
Arabic Numerals
entry |1 pages
Archives and Special Collections in Accounting
entry |1 pages
Arithmetic and Accounting
entry |2 pages
Audit Committees
entry |1 pages
Auditing, External
entry |4 pages
Auditor's Report
entry |1 pages
Australia
letter |31 pages
B
entry |1 pages
Babbage, Charles (1792–1871)
entry |1 pages
Babylonia
entry |1 pages
Bad Debts
entry |1 pages
Badoer, Jachomo
entry |1 pages
Balance Account
entry |4 pages
Balance Sheet
entry |1 pages
Ball and Brown's “An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers”
entry |1 pages
Bankruptcy Acts
entry |1 pages
Barbarigo, Andrea (d. 1449)
entry |1 pages
BarChris Case
entry |1 pages
Bardi
entry |1 pages
Barter
entry |1 pages
Base Stock Method
entry |1 pages
Beaver, William (1940–)
entry |1 pages
Bentley, Harry Clark (1877–1967)
entry |1 pages
Berle and Means
entry |4 pages
Big Eight Accounting Firms
entry |1 pages
Big Six Accounting Firms
entry |1 pages
Blotter
entry |1 pages
Branch Accounting
entry |2 pages
Brazil: Inflation Accounting
entry |2 pages
Break-Even Chart
entry |1 pages
Brief, Richard P. (1933–)
entry |1 pages
Briloff, Abraham J. (1920–)
entry |1 pages
Brown, F. Donaldson (1885–1965)
entry |1 pages
Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Company
entry |3 pages
Budgeting
letter |98 pages
C
entry |4 pages
Canada
entry |1 pages
Canning, John Bennett (1884–1962)
entry |2 pages
Capital Account
entry |4 pages
Capital Maintenance
entry |1 pages
Capital Stock
entry |1 pages
Carpenter v. Hall
entry |1 pages
Cash Basis Accounting
entry |3 pages
Cash Flow Accounting
entry |1 pages
Center for International Education and Research in Accounting
entry |1 pages
Certified Management Accountant (CMA) Examination
entry |1 pages
Certified Public Accountant
entry |3 pages
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Examination: The Early Years (1896–1930)
entry |2 pages
Chambers, Raymond John (1917–)
entry |2 pages
“Charge and Discharge” Statement
entry |3 pages
Chart of Accounts
entry |3 pages
Chartered Accountants Examinations in England and Wales
entry |1 pages
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
entry |2 pages
Chief Accountants of the Securities and Exchange Commission
entry |1 pages
China
entry |2 pages
Church, Alexander Hamilton (1866–1936)
entry |1 pages
City of Glasgow Bank
entry |2 pages
Clark, John Maurice (1884–1963)
entry |2 pages
Closing Entries and Procedures
entry |2 pages
Cohen Commission: Commission on Auditors' Responsibilities
entry |1 pages
Cole, William Morse (1866–1960)
entry |1 pages
Collector v. Hubbard
entry |2 pages
College and University Accounting
entry |1 pages
Colonial America, Accounting in
entry |1 pages
Commander Theory
entry |1 pages
Commenda Contracts
entry |1 pages
Common Costs
entry |3 pages
Companies Acts
entry |5 pages
Comparability
entry |1 pages
Compound Entries
entry |1 pages
Compound Interest
entry |5 pages
Computing Technology in the West: The Impact on the Profession of Accounting
entry |4 pages
Conceptual Framework
entry |2 pages
Congresses on Accounting, International
entry |3 pages
Congressional Views
entry |8 pages
Conservatism
entry |1 pages
Consignment Accounts
entry |1 pages
Consistency
entry |1 pages
Consolidated Financial Statements
entry |1 pages
Continental Vending Case
entry |2 pages
Continuing Professional Education
entry |3 pages
Continuity
entry |1 pages
Control Accounts
entry |1 pages
Control: Classical Model
entry |2 pages
Cooper, William Wager (1914–)
entry |1 pages
Corporations: Evolution
entry |2 pages
Cost Accounting Standards Board (1970–1980; 1988–)
entry |3 pages
Cost and/or Management Accounting
entry |1 pages
Cotrugli, Benedetto
entry |1 pages
Craig v. Anyon
entry |1 pages
C redit
entry |1 pages
Critical Event Theory
entry |1 pages
Cronhelm, Frederic William
letter |33 pages
D
entry |1 pages
Dafforne, Richard
entry |1 pages
Datini, Francesco de Marco (1335–1410)
entry |1 pages
Davidson, Sidney (1919–)
entry |1 pages
Day Book
entry |1 pages
Debit and C redit
entry |3 pages
Deferred Income Tax Accounting
entry |3 pages
Definitions of Accounting
entry |1 pages
Demski, Joel S. (1940–)
entry |1 pages
De Paula, Frederic Rudolf Mackley (1882–1954)
entry |4 pages
Depreciation
entry |1 pages
Devine, Carl (1911–)
entry |1 pages
Dickinson, Arthur Lowes (1859–1935)
entry |1 pages
Dicksee, Lawrence (1864–1932)
entry |3 pages
Direct Costing
entry |1 pages
Directives of the European Community (Union)
entry |1 pages
Discounted Cash Flow
entry |3 pages
Distribution Costs
entry |2 pages
Diversified Reporting
entry |1 pages
Dividends
entry |1 pages
Dodson, James (1710–1757)
entry |1 pages
Domesday Book
entry |1 pages
Donaldo Soranzo and Brothers
entry |2 pages
Double Account Method
entry |1 pages
Double Entry Bookkeeping: Origins
entry |1 pages
Doyle v. Mitchell Brothers Company
letter |20 pages
E
entry |1 pages
Earned Surplus
entry |2 pages
East India Company
entry |1 pages
Edwards and Bell: Replacement-Cost Accounting
entry |1 pages
Edwards, James Don (1926–)
entry |1 pages
Efficient Market Hypothesis
entry |1 pages
Egypt
entry |1 pages
Eisner v. Macomber
entry |1 pages
Emerson, Harrington (1853–1931)
entry |2 pages
Engineering and Accounting
entry |1 pages
Enterprise Theory
entry |1 pages
Entity Theory
entry |2 pages
Escott v. BarChris Construction Corporation
entry |1 pages
Estate Accounting
entry |2 pages
Ethics, Professional
entry |2 pages
European Community (Union) Accounting: Fourth and Seventh Accounting Directives
entry |3 pages
External Auditing
letter |27 pages
F
entry |1 pages
Farolfi Company Ledger
entry |5 pages
Federal Government Accounting (U.S.)
entry |4 pages
Financial Accounting Standards Board
entry |3 pages
Financial-Statement Analysis
entry |1 pages
Fini, Rinerio
entry |1 pages
Fischer v. Kletz
entry |1 pages
Fisher, Irving (1867–1947)
entry |1 pages
Fixed Assets
entry |1 pages
Flint v. Stone Tracy Company
entry |1 pages
Fiori, Ludovico (1579–1647)
entry |2 pages
Foreign Currency Translation (1931–1981)
entry |3 pages
France
entry |2 pages
Fraud and Auditing
entry |1 pages
Fugger Cost Accounts
entry |2 pages
Funds Flow Statement
letter |21 pages
G
entry |1 pages
Gantt, Henry Laurence (1861–1919)
entry |1 pages
Garcke and Fells
entry |1 pages
Garner, S. Paul (1910–)
entry |3 pages
General Accounting Office, U.S.
entry |4 pages
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
entry |2 pages
Germany
entry |1 pages
Gilman, Stephen (1887–1959)
entry |3 pages
Goodwill
entry |1 pages
Grady, Paul (1900–1984)
entry |1 pages
Graham, Willard J. (1897–1966)
entry |1 pages
Greece (750–31 b.c.)
entry |1 pages
Green, Wilmer L.
entry |2 pages
Gregory Case
entry |1 pages
Guo, Daoyang (1940–)
letter |15 pages
H
entry |1 pages
Hamilton, Robert (1743–1829)
entry |1 pages
Harrison, G. Charter (1881–)
entry |1 pages
Haskins, Charles Waldo (1852–1903)
entry |1 pages
Hatfield, Henry Rand (1866–1945)
entry |1 pages
Herzfeld v. Laventhol, Krekstein, Horwath and Horwath
entry |4 pages
Historical Cost
entry |1 pages
Hochfelder v. Ernst and Ernst
entry |1 pages
Hopwood, Anthony G. (1944–)
entry |1 pages
Horngren, Charles T. (1926–)
entry |1 pages
Hoxsey, J.M.B.
entry |1 pages
Hugli, Friedrich
entry |2 pages
Human Resource Accounting
letter |44 pages
I
entry |3 pages
Ijiri, Yuji (1935–)
entry |2 pages
Imputed Interest on Capital
entry |4 pages
Income-Determination Theory
entry |3 pages
Income Statement/Income Account
entry |4 pages
Income Taxation in the United States
entry |3 pages
Independence of External Auditors
entry |1 pages
India (600 b.c.–a.d. 1856)
entry |2 pages
Industrial Relations and Accounting
entry |3 pages
Inflation Accounting
entry |3 pages
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
entry |1 pages
Institute of Cost and Management Accountants
entry |1 pages
Institute of Internal Auditors
entry |2 pages
Institute of Management Accountants
entry |2 pages
Intangible Assets
entry |2 pages
Internal Auditing
entry |4 pages
Internal Control
entry |1 pages
International Accounting Standards Committee
entry |2 pages
Inventory Valuation
entry |3 pages
Italy, after Pacioli
letter |9 pages
J
entry |3 pages
Japan
entry |1 pages
Johnson and Kaplan's Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting
entry |1 pages
Johnson, H. Thomas (1938–)
entry |1 pages
Jones, Edward Thomas (1767–1833)
entry |1 pages
Jones, Thomas (1804–1889)
entry |1 pages
Journal
entry |1 pages
Just-in-Tïme Manufacturing
letter |5 pages
K
entry |1 pages
Kempten, Valentin Mennher von (1521–1571)
entry |1 pages
Kimura, Wasaburo (1902–1973)
entry |1 pages
Kingston Cotton Mills Company
entry |1 pages
Kohler, Eric Louis (1892–1976)
entry |1 pages
Kojima, Osamu (1912–1989)
entry |1 pages
Kraayenhof, Jacob (1899–1982)
letter |24 pages
L
entry |1 pages
Ladelle, O.G. (1862–1890)
entry |3 pages
Last In, First Out (LIFO)
entry |2 pages
Law and Accounting
entry |1 pages
Ledger
entry |1 pages
Lee v. Neuchatel Asphalte Company
entry |1 pages
Leeds Estate Building & Investment Company v. Shepard
entry |3 pages
Legal Liability of Auditors
entry |2 pages
Leonardo of Pisa (Leonardo Pisano) (Fibonacci) (11??–12??)
entry |1 pages
Lewis, J. Slater
entry |2 pages
Liabilities
entry |2 pages
Limited Liability
entry |2 pages
Limperg, Theodore Jr. (1879–1961)
entry |3 pages
Liquidity: Accounting Measurement
entry |1 pages
Littleton, A.C. (1886–1974)
letter |36 pages
M
entry |2 pages
MacNeal, Kenneth (1895–1972)
entry |3 pages
Management Accounting
entry |2 pages
Management Advisory Services by CPAs
entry |2 pages
Manipulation of Income
entry |1 pages
Manorial Accounting
entry |1 pages
Manzoni, Domenico
entry |1 pages
Massari Commune Ledgers
entry |2 pages
Matching
entry |2 pages
Materiality
entry |2 pages
Mattessich, Richard V. (1922–)
entry |1 pages
Mautz, Robert K. (1915–)
entry |2 pages
May, George Oliver (1875–1961)
entry |1 pages
McKesson & Bobbins Case
entry |1 pages
McKinsey, James O. (1889–1937)
entry |1 pages
Medici Accounts
entry |2 pages
Medieval Accounting
entry |1 pages
Memorandum Book
entry |1 pages
Mercantilism
entry |1 pages
Metcalfe, Henry (1847–1927)
entry |4 pages
Microeconomics in Germany
entry |1 pages
Money
entry |1 pages
Monteage, Stephen (1623–1687)
entry |2 pages
Montgomery, Robert Hiester (1872–1953)
entry |1 pages
Moonitz, Maurice (1910–)
entry |1 pages
Most, Kenneth S. (1924–)
entry |2 pages
Municipal Accounting Reform (1890–1920)
letter |12 pages
N
entry |1 pages
National Association of Accountants
entry |1 pages
National Association of State Boards of Accountancy
entry |2 pages
National Income Accounting
entry |2 pages
Natural Business Year
entry |2 pages
Netherlands
entry |2 pages
New York Stock Exchange
entry |1 pages
Nicholson, J. Lee (1863–1924)
entry |2 pages
Normative Accounting
letter |6 pages
O
entry |2 pages
Objectivity
entry |1 pages
Oldcastle, Hugh
entry |2 pages
Operational (Value-for-Money) Auditing
entry |1 pages
Opportunity Cost
letter |40 pages
P
entry |3 pages
Pacioli, Luca (c. 1445–c. 1517)
entry |2 pages
Packard, Silas Sadler (1826–1898)
entry |1 pages
Paid In Capital
entry |1 pages
Par Value Doctrine
entry |1 pages
Parker, Robert Henry (1932–)
entry |2 pages
Partnership Accounting
entry |1 pages
Paton, William Andrew (1889–1991)
entry |1 pages
Payen, Anselme (1795–1871)
entry |1 pages
Peele, James (d. 1585)
entry |3 pages
Periodicity
entry |1 pages
Perpetual Inventory
entry |2 pages
Personification of Accounts
entry |1 pages
Peru
entry |1 pages
Peruzzi
entry |2 pages
Philips Industries (N.V.)
entry |1 pages
Pietra, Angelo (d. 1590)
entry |1 pages
Pipe Roll
entry |1 pages
Pixley, Francis William (1852–1933)
entry |1 pages
Plantin, Christopher (1514–1589)
entry |2 pages
Poland
entry |1 pages
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company
entry |3 pages
Pooling of Interests
entry |2 pages
Positive Accounting
entry |3 pages
Postulates of Accounting
entry |1 pages
Present Value
entry |1 pages
Previts, Gary John (1942–)
entry |1 pages
Printing Press
entry |1 pages
Professional Accounting Bodies
entry |1 pages
Proffer System
entry |2 pages
Proprietary Theory
entry |1 pages
Proprietorship
entry |2 pages
Public Oversight Board
letter |2 pages
Q
entry |2 pages
Quasi-Reorganization
letter |23 pages
R
entry |5 pages
Railroad Accounting (U.S.)
entry |3 pages
Realization
entry |1 pages
Regulation (Federal U.S.) and Accounting
entry |1 pages
Regulation of Railways Act (Britain, 1868)
entry |3 pages
Research Methods in Accounting History
entry |1 pages
Residual Equity Theory
entry |2 pages
Retained Earnings
entry |1 pages
Retained Earnings Appropriations
entry |1 pages
Return on Investment
entry |1 pages
Rex v. Kylsant
entry |3 pages
Ripley, William Z. (1867–1941)
entry |1 pages
Roman Numerals
entry |2 pages
Rome (509 b.c.–a.d. 476)
entry |1 pages
Rogenblum v. Adler
entry |1 pages
Royal Mail Case
entry |1 pages
Russia
letter |64 pages
S
entry |1 pages
Sanders, Hatfield, and Moore
entry |2 pages
Sanders, Thomas Henry (1885–1953)
entry |1 pages
Sandilands Report
entry |1 pages
Savary, Jacques (1622–1690)
entry |2 pages
Schmalenbach, Eugen (1873–1955)
entry |2 pages
Schmidt, Julius August Fritz (1882–1950)
entry |1 pages
Schrader, William Joseph (1929–)
entry |1 pages
Schreiber, Heinrich (c. 1496–1525)
entry |1 pages
Schweicker, Wolfgang
entry |2 pages
Scotland: Early Writers in Double Entry Accounting
entry |1 pages
Scott, Dr (1887–1954)
entry |1 pages
Scribes
entry |5 pages
Securities and Exchange Commission
entry |1 pages
Sells, Elijah Watt (1858–1924)
entry |2 pages
Separate Entities
entry |1 pages
Single Account Method
entry |1 pages
Single Entry Bookkeeping
entry |1 pages
Sixteenth Amendment (1913)
entry |1 pages
Smith, Adam (1723–1790)
entry |1 pages
Smyth v. Ames
entry |1 pages
Snell, Charles (1670–1730)
entry |2 pages
Social Responsibilities of Accountants
entry |1 pages
Societas Maris
entry |2 pages
Solomons, David (1912–1995)
entry |1 pages
Sombart, Werner (1863–1941)
entry |1 pages
Soranzo Brothers
entry |1 pages
Soul George (1834–1926)
entry |1 pages
South Sea Bubble
entry |2 pages
Spacek, Leonard (1907–)
entry |2 pages
Spain
entry |2 pages
Sprague, Charles Ezra (1842–1912)
entry |1 pages
Springer v. United States
entry |3 pages
Standard Costing
entry |2 pages
State and Local Governments (U.S., 1901–1991)
entry |2 pages
State Regulation of the Accountancy Profession (U.S.)
entry |4 pages
Statistical Sampling
entry |1 pages
Stephens, Hustcraft
entry |1 pages
Sterling, Robert R. (1931–)
entry |1 pages
Sterrett, Joseph Edmund (1870–1934)
entry |1 pages
Stevelinck, Ernest Jean Leon (1905–)
entry |1 pages
Stevin, Simon (1548–1620)
entry |1 pages
Stewardship
entry |2 pages
Stock Dividents
entry |1 pages
Stone, williard E. (1910–)
entry |1 pages
Study Group on Business Income's Five Monographs on Business Income
entry |1 pages
Subsidiary Ledger
entry |1 pages
Summa Summarium
entry |2 pages
Sweeney, Henry Whitcomb (1898–1967)
letter |17 pages
T
entry |1 pages
Tally Stick
entry |2 pages
Tax-Ordained Accounting
entry |2 pages
Tax Reform Acts
entry |1 pages
Taylor, Frederick Winslow (1856–1915)
entry |1 pages
Thomas's The Allocation Problem in Financial Accounting Theory
entry |1 pages
Towne v. Eisner
entry |2 pages
Transfer Prices
entry |3 pages
Treadway Commission
entry |1 pages
Treasury Stock
entry |1 pages
Trial Balance
entry |2 pages
Trueblood, Robert Martin (1916–1974)
entry |1 pages
Trustee Accounts
letter |11 pages
U
entry |2 pages
Ultramares Corporation v. Touche, Niven & Company
entry |1 pages
Uniform Accounting
entry |1 pages
Uniform Accounting Systems
entry |2 pages
Uniformity
entry |2 pages
U.S. Industrial Commission
entry |1 pages
United States of America v. Carl Simon
entry |2 pages
United States Steel Corporation
letter |2 pages
V
entry |2 pages
Vatter, William Joseph (1905–1990)
entry |1 pages
Vitruvius
letter |7 pages
W
entry |1 pages
Waste Book
entry |1 pages
Wells, Murray Charles (1936–)
entry |1 pages
Westec Case
entry |2 pages
Wheat Committee
entry |1 pages
Whitmore, John
entry |2 pages
Wildman, John Raymond (1878–1938)
entry |2 pages
Women in Accounting
letter |2 pages
Y
entry |1 pages
Yale Express Case
entry |1 pages
Yamey, Basil Selig (1919–)
entry |1 pages
Ympyn, Jan (1485–1540)
letter |4 pages
Z
entry |2 pages
Zappa, Gino (1879–1960)
entry |1 pages
Zeff, Stephen A. (1933–)
entry |1 pages
Zimmerman, Vernon K. (1928–)