1st Edition

The Institute of Accounts

By Stephen E. Loeb, Paul J. Miranti Copyright 2004
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

This book focuses upon the Institute of Accounts (IA), an organization to which the modern United States accounting profession can trace its roots. The IA was organized in the early 1880s in New York City and, as discussed in this book, attracted a diverse membership that included some of the leading accounting thinkers of the period. The Institute of Accounts describes the association's early... Read more
Foreword, Acknowledgments, Section 1 Introduction, Section 2 Origins, goals, membership, and professional characteristics, Section 3 Functionality of the IA and its role in professionalization, Section 4 The structure of accounting knowledge and the natural order of society, Section 5 Decline of the IA, Section 6 Legacy, Notes, References, Index

Biography

Paul J. Miranti Jr. is a professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems and was formerly associate dean of faculty and research at Rutgers Business School.