1st Edition

The Accountant's Magazine An Anthology

Edited By Colin Storrar Copyright 1986
    184 Pages
    by Routledge

    184 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book, first published in 1986, contains a series of articles from The Accountants’ Magazine from the early years of the twentieth century. They provide insights into the development of accountancy as a profession, and the development of the professional bodies that oversaw it. Careful selection of the articles for this volume mean that there are often contrasting pairs of articles on the same subject, providing a neat summation of any debate on the topic.

    1. Eminent Accountants of the Past, III: Donald Lindsay (1897) J. Haldane  2. The Treatment of Bad and Doubtful Debts (1898)  3. Income Tax (1903) Editorial  4. The Relation of Auditors to Public Companies (1904) N.J.D. Kennedy  5. Cost Accounts (1905) F. Tod  6. Edinburgh University and Accountant Students (1906) Editorial  7. Capital and Revenue Accounts: Their Origin and Nature: The Genesis of the Double-Account System (1907) J.B. Macdonald  8. The Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the American Association of Public Accountants: Impressions of a Visitor (1908)  9. Counting by Electricity (1913)  10. Intimations and Reports: Society of Accountants in Edinburgh (1917)  11. The Apprentice in the Army (1918)  12. The Apprentice Returned (1919)  13. The Accountants Relationship with the Inland Revenue (1924) C.H. Temple  14. Verification of Assets (1924) Editorial  15. American Universities and the Teaching of Commerce (1933) W.T. Baxter  16. The Dunlop Rubber Company Accounts (1934) W.F. Eva  17. The Accountant and the Machine (1936) C.R. Curtis  18. Principles Underlying the Profit Statements and Balance-Sheets (1938) I.W. Macdonald  19. Accountancy Must Look Forward (1942) H.C.F. Holgate  20. Tax Avoidance (1940) T. Robinson  21. Public Ownership for the Steel Industry (1946)  22. Budgetary Control and Standard Costs (1946) R. Taylor  23. The Effects of the Price Level on Accountancy (1952) F.R.M. de Paula  24. Summer School Impressions (1953)  25. Interpretation of Company Accounts (1954) H.E. Wincott

    Biography

    Colin Storrar