A history of accountancy in the United States : the cultural significance of accounting / Gary John Previts and Barbara Dubis Merino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Previts, Gary John.

Contributor:

Merino, Barbara Dubis.

Previts, Gary John.

Series:

Historical perspectives on business enterprise series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Accounting--United States--History.

Accounting.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 577 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [1998]

Summary:

In this edition, the authors present the research done during the fifteen years since the book's initial publication. They have also reconsidered their earlier material -- for which they won the Hourglass Award of the Academy of Accounting Historians -- especially their discussion of the relationship between developments in accounting and in society.

Gary John Previts is a professor of accountancy at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of several books on accounting, including Historical Perspectives of Selected Financial Accounting Topics.

Notes:

Rev., enl. ed. of: A history of accounting in America. 1979.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-557) and index.

Related Work:

Previts, Gary John. History of accounting in America. c1979.

ISBN:

0814207278

0814207286

OCLC:

37260923