The Birth of American Accountancy

ISBN-13: 9780367534776 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 266 str.

Opis

This book, first published in 1988, is a comprehensive, analytical and annotated bibliography of all American Accounting Works up to 1820. It extends, clarifies and corrects our knowledge of early American publications on accounting. Each work is reviewed, representing the first modern analyses of these early accounting writings.

Spis treści

1. The Secretary’s Guide (1737) The George Fisher Series Beginning 1737  2. The Deputy Commissary’s Guide (1774) Elie Vallette  3. Rural Economy, or Essays on the Practical Parts of Husbandry (1776) Arthur Young  4. A Course of Bookkeeping, According to the Method of Single Entry (1788) The Charles Hutton Series Beginning 1788  5. An Introduction to the Counting House (1789) Thomas Sarjeant  6. The Town Officer (1791) Samuel Freeman  7. The Young Book-Keeper’s Assistant (1794) The Thomas Dilworth Series Beginning 1794  8. A New Introduction to Book Keeping (1794) Richard Turner  9. Jones’s English System of Book-Keeping, by Single or Double Entry (1796) Edward T. Jones  10. A New and Complete System of Book-Keeping, By An Improved Method of Double-Entry (1796) William Mitchell  11. The American Accomptant (1797) Chauncy Lee  12. A Treatise of Practical Arithmetic and Bookkeeping (1797) F. Nichols  13. A Concise Introduction to Practical Arithmetic (1798) Samuel Temple  14. The Country Trader’s Assistant (1799) William Cobb  15. Book-Keeping in the True Italian Form (1801) William Jackson  16. The Elements of Bookkeeping (1803) Patrick Kelly  17. An Epitome of Book-Keeping by Double Entry (1804) Thomas Turner  18. A Short System of Practical Arithmetic (1807) William Kinne  19. Book-Keeping by the Method of Single Entry (1808) O.E.  20. The Mercantile Manual, or Accountant’s Guide (1810)  21. The Private Instructor (1815) John Blake  22. The American Book-Keeper (1815) B. Sheys  23. An Epitome of Book-Keeping by Single Entry (1817) Edmund Gale  24. Modern Book-Keeping, by Double Entry (1817) Charles Gerisher  25. The Family Clerk and Student’s Assistant (1817) James Maginness  26. The Trial Balance, or the Book Keeper’s Directory (1818) Thomas H. Goddard  27. The American Tutor’s Assistant (1819) Zachariah Jess  28. A New and Compendious System of Book-Keeping by Double-Entry (1818) D.C. Roscoe  29. The American Book-Keeper (1818) B. Sheys  30. Staniford’s Practical Arithmetic (1818) Daniel Staniford  31. A New and Concise System of Book-Keeping (1819) Benjamin Davies  32. The Young Mercantile’s Manual, or Practical Book-Keeper (1820) I. Alger  33. The American System of Practical Book-Keeping (1820) James Bennett

O autorze

Peter J. McMickle and Paul H. Jensen