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A history of accountancy in the United States : the cultural significance of accounting

Title
A history of accountancy in the United States : the cultural significance of accounting / Gary John Previs and Barbara Dubis Merino.
Author
Previts, Gary John.
Publication
Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University Press, 1998.

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Merino, Barbara Dubis.
Description
xx, 577 pages : portraits; 24 cm.
Summary
  • The only comprehensive chronicle of American accountancy from the colonial period to the present, this completely revised edition provides practicing accountants and professional accounting students with a thorough knowledge of the origins of their profession.
  • Gary John Previts and Barbara Dubis Merino address the evolution of accounting in social, political, and economic terms and discuss the major figures in each historical period. They consider the development of accounting in all of its major institutional domains, including public practice, financial reporting, business management, government, and education.
Series Statement
Historical perspectives on business enterprise series
Uniform Title
Historical perspectives on business enterprise series.
Subject
Note
  • Rev., enl. ed. of: A history of accounting in America. 1979.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. 1492-1775: Accounting from Discovery to Revolutionary Times -- Ch. 2. 1776-1826: The Formation of a National Economy -- Ch. 3. 1827-1865: The Beginnings of Corporate America -- Ch. 4. 1866-1896: Accounting in the Gilded Age -- Ch. 5. 1897-1918: The Formation of an Accounting Profession -- Ch. 6. 1919-1945: Accountancy Comes of Age: The Interwar Period -- Ch. 7. 1946-1972: Expansion and Controversy: Accountants in an Age of Uncertainty -- Ch. 8. 1973-1995: Accountancy and the Global Capital Market: From the Trueblood Report to the Jenkins Committee.
ISBN
  • 0814207278 (alk. paper)
  • 0814207286 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
97024109
OCLC
  • 37260923
  • ocm37260923
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries