The Accounting Historians Journal
June 1990
Volume 17, Number 1

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THE ACCOUNTING HISTORIANS JOURNAL
Semiannual Publication of The Academy of Accounting Historians
Volume 17, Number 1 June 1990

CONTENTS

Main Articles

What is Publishable Accounting History Research: An Editorial View — Dale L. Flesher and William D. Samson
Characteristics of the Work of Leading Authors of The Accounting Review, 1926-1945 — Robert J. Fleming, Samuel P. Graci, and Joel E. Thompson
An Early Attempt at Balance Sheet Classification and Financial Reporting — Vahe Baladouni
Accounting for Labor in the Early 19th Century: The U.S. Arms Making Experience — Thomas Tyson
Cost Accounting at Keswick, England, c. 1598-1615: The German Connection — John Richard Edwards, George Hammersley, and Edmund Newell
A World War II Cost Accounting Assignment — Dixon Fagerberg, Jr
Creating an Accounting Culture in the Classroom — David R. Koeppen

Reviews of Books and Other Publications

Economists and the Economy: The Evolution of Economic Ideas 1600 to the Present Day — Alistair Preston
Congress and the Income Tax — Adrianne E. Slaymaker
The Memoirs of Edwin Waterhouse: A Founder of Price Waterhouse — Michael J. Mepham
George Washington’s Expense Account — James H. Potts
Five Years Hard! Memoirs of an Articled Clerk 1928-1933 — John Freear
The Evolution of Selected Annual Corporate Financial Reporting Practices in Canada: 1900-1970 — John K. Courtis
Education for the Mercantile Counting House: Critical and Constructive Essays by Nine British Writers, 1716-1794 — G. A. Swanson
The Historical Development of Management Accounting — Takashi Oguri
Managerial Accounting — Thomas Tyson

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