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.

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–)