Women, Accounting and Narrative

Women, Accounting and Narrative
Author: Rebecca E. Connor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2004-04-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134698437

In the early eighteenth century, the household accountant was traditionally female. Socio-linguistic acts of feminized accounting are examined alongside property, originality, and the development of the early novel.

A History of the Modern Fact

A History of the Modern Fact
Author: Mary Poovey
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2009-11-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226675181

How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences? Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact, ranging across an astonishing array of texts and ideas from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. She shows how the production of systematic knowledge from descriptions of observed particulars influenced government, how numerical representation became the privileged vehicle for generating useful facts, and how belief—whether figured as credit, credibility, or credulity—remained essential to the production of knowledge. Illuminating the epistemological conditions that have made modern social and economic knowledge possible, A History of the Modern Fact provides important contributions to the history of political thought, economics, science, and philosophy, as well as to literary and cultural criticism.

A History of Accountancy in the United States

A History of Accountancy in the United States
Author: Gary John Previts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 612
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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.

A History of Accounting and Accountants

A History of Accounting and Accountants
Author: Richard Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317792475

First published in 1968. Inspired by the occurrence of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the incorporation of Accountants in Scotland—in which country the Chartered Accountant first saw the light — suggested the propriety of writing an account of the origin and growth of the profession while it was still possible to ascertain the facts and describe the circumstances with some degree of fulness. This book also includes a history of Accounts, Auditing, and Book-keeping; in short, to treat of Accounting— as well as Accountants—from the historic standpoint.

Archaic Bookkeeping

Archaic Bookkeeping
Author: Hans J. Nissen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780226586595

This work brings together current scholarship on the earliest true writing system in human history. Invented by the Babylonians at the end of the fourth millennium BC, this script, called proto-cuneiform, survives in the form of clay tablets that have until now posed formidable barriers to interpretation. Many tablets, excavated in fragments from ancient dump sites, lack a clear context. In addition, the purpose of the earliest tablets was not to record language but to monitor the administration of local economies by means of a numerical system.

Particularis de Computis Et Scripturis

Particularis de Computis Et Scripturis
Author: Luca Pacioli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 91
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Bookkeeping
ISBN: 9780964777804

A new English interpretation of Fra Luca Pacioli's (the Father of Accounting) treatise on accounting, commemorating the 500th anniversary of its original publication in Venice in 1494. His PARTICULARIS was the first codification of double-entry accounting & a guide for merchants on sound accounting & business practice: "If you are in business & do not know all about your money, it will go like flies, that is, you will lose it."--(Luca Pacioli) Originally written not in Latin, but in vernacular Italian, it was a tremendous success, & earned Pacioli his place in history. "...the name Pacioli is linked with famous artists, writers, & political figures of his day"--(THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, January 29, 1993). This very readable translation by Dr. Jeremy Cripps brings Pacioli's material to life, & captures the enduring nature of the underlying principles of accounting & business. To order: for U.S. orders, send $45.00 check or money order (includes shipping & handling); for foreign orders send $60.00 (in U.S. dollars). Will accept purchase orders from U.S. institutions. Sorry, no credit cards. The Pacioli Society, Albers School of Business, Seattle University, 900 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122.