Written by an internationally respected expery, this is the first and only book to offer a comprehensive survey of accounting, authorative research on a broad international scale for the last two centuries.
Written by an internationally respected expery, this is the first and only book to offer a comprehensive survey of accounting, authorativ...
This book has been written primarily for the applied and social scientist and student who longs for an integrated picture of the foundations on which his research must ultimately rest; but hopefully the book may also serve philosophers interested in applied disciplines and in systems methodology. If integration was the major motto, the need for a method ology, appropriate to the teleological peculiarities of all applied sciences, was the main impetus behind the conception of the present work. This need I felt a long time ago in my own area of analytical and empirical research in accounting...
This book has been written primarily for the applied and social scientist and student who longs for an integrated picture of the foundations on which ...
Based on recent archaeological, historical and accounting research, this book presents a series of well-supported, but often surprising hypotheses on the 10,000 year-old history of accounting. Mattessich also illustrates the astounding sophistication manifested in some of the accounting and budgeting procedures throughout history. The second part of the book deals with the first manuscript containing sections describing accounting activities, the Kautilya's Arthasastra, written about 300 BC in India.
Based on recent archaeological, historical and accounting research, this book presents a series of well-supported, but often surprising hypotheses on ...
