ABSTRACT

This book, first published in 1986, contains a series of articles from The Accountants’ Magazine from the early years of the twentieth century. They provide insights into the development of accountancy as a profession, and the development of the professional bodies that oversaw it. Careful selection of the articles for this volume mean that there are often contrasting pairs of articles on the same subject, providing a neat summation of any debate on the topic.

chapter |5 pages

Eminent Accountants of the Past

ByLindsay Donald

chapter |5 pages

The Treatment of Bad and Doubtful Debts

ByColin Storrar

chapter |4 pages

The Accountants’ Magazine Vol. VII July 1903. No. 67

ByColin Storrar

chapter |18 pages

The Relation of Auditors to Public Companies

ByNeil J. D. Kennedy

chapter |8 pages

Cost Accounts

ByFrederick Tod

chapter |4 pages

The Accountants’ Magazine Vol. X. June 1906. No. 96

ByColin Storrar

chapter |4 pages

Counting by Electricity

ByColin Storrar

chapter |6 pages

Edinburgh

ByColin Storrar

chapter |2 pages

The Apprentice in the Army

ByColin Storrar

chapter |2 pages

The Apprentice Returned

ByColin Storrar

chapter |5 pages

The Accountants Relationship with the Inland Revenue 1

ByCyril H. Temple

chapter |3 pages

Editorial

ByColin Storrar

chapter |8 pages

American Universities and the Teaching of Commerce

ByW. T. Baxter

chapter |6 pages

The Dunlop Rubber Company Accounts

ByW. F. Eva

chapter |6 pages

The Accountant and the Machine

ByC. Ralph Curtis

chapter |12 pages

Principles Underlying Profit Statements and Balance-Sheets

ByIan W. Macdonald

chapter |2 pages

Accountancy Must Look Forward

ByH. C. F. Holgate

chapter |4 pages

Tax Avoidance

ByT. Robinson

chapter |2 pages

The Accountants’ Magazine Vol. I. June 1946 No. 496

ByColin Storrar

chapter |9 pages

Budgetary Control and Standard Costs

ByRobert Taylor

chapter |8 pages

The Effects of the Price Level on Accounting *

ByF. R. M. de Paula

chapter |6 pages

Summer School Impressions

ByColin Storrar

chapter |9 pages

Interpretation of Company Accounts *

ByH. E. Wincott