Accounting Historians Journal articles from June 2001

Accounting Historians Journal archives from June 2001

FROM THE EDITOR.
June 1, 2001... For over twenty years The Accounting Historians Journal has provided a major international medium for the dissemination of research findings on the history of accounting thought and practice. During that period the growth of academic interest...

AN ARCHIVAL INVESTIGATION OF A LATE 19TH CENTURY ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM: THE USE OF DECISION AIDS IN THE AMERICAN PRINTING INDUSTRY.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... Abstract: This study investigates management's use of decision aids within the context of an accounting information system of a late 19th century American printing firm. Our findings suggest that the use of decision aids by management...

INTERNAL AUDIT AT THE HISTORICAL HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY: A CHALLENGE TO ACCEPTED HISTORY.
June 1, 2001... Abstract: The accepted history of managerial internal audit is that its origins are in financial and compliance auditing. Managerial was added after firms started to expand geographically or into other businesses. That expansion increased...

SMALL-TIME ACCOUNTING: A 19TH CENTURY MEAT MERCHANT IN MAINE.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... Abstract: The journal of Amos K. Hersey, a 19th century meat merchant from Pembroke. Maine is examined in this paper. The accounting system used by Hersey is analyzed and compared with contemporary prescriptions for account keeping. The paper...

THE LADY AND THE ACCOUNTS: MISSING FROM ACCOUNTING HISTORY?
June 1, 2001... Abstract: Amanda Vickery's, The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England, [1998] provides a challenging and controversial account of the lives of genteel women in provincial England. In this review essay, we consider the...

TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS AND THE WORK OF THE ACCOUNTING HISTORIAN: SOME KEY ISSUES.
June 1, 2001... Abstract: This paper considers how innovations in information technology have changed the process by which accounting historians collect primary and secondary sources of information. It examines how web-based systems have made it possible for...

ACCOUNTING HISTORY: A SURVEY OF ACADEMIC INTEREST IN THE U.S.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... Abstract: A number of the reports by academicians and practitioners in the United States have called for significant change in accounting education and an enhanced role for accounting history in curricula and research. However, the survey...

ACCOUNTING HALL OF FAME 2000 INDUCTION.
June 1, 2001... Remarks, Citation, and Response JOEL S. DEMSKI REMARKS by Professor Charles T. Horngren Stanford University Hall of Fame Member This occasion is a special honor and treat for me. I have know Joel Demski since 1963, when...