CONTACT NOTES
-Information about the Business Archives Council and their newsletter can be obtained by writing A. W. Murdoch, Assistant Provincial Archivist, Archives of Ontario, 77 Grenville Street, Queens Park, Toronto, Ontario M7A 1C7, Canada. Mr. Murdoch also is familiar with the records management program going on throughout Ontario Government and may be contacted with regard to such programs as they affect archival information.
-Two concurrent sessions during next April’s regional meeting of the Southeastern AAA group will be devoted to accounting history. For more information on the details of the program contact Professor Richard A. Scott at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA 23220. Historical research sessions will be featured at the Southwestern AAA group meeting set for March. For more information contact Professor Kenneth Most, Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843.
-The Accounting History Society met on Wednesday, September 25th at 2:30 p.m. in London. Copies of the minutes and more information about the Society can be obtained from Dr. Geoffrey Lee, Secretary, c/o The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2 RD, United Kingdom.
-The Second Meeting of the Ealing Business History Seminar was conducted November 8, 1974, at Ealing Technical College, London. Program information and copies of material can be obtained by writing Profesor Derek J. Oddy, School of Business & Social Science, Ealing Technical College, St. Mary’s Road, Ealing, London, W5, United Kingdom.
-Two Papers on the history of accounting in America from 1875-1925 will be presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference. See details in the announcement located in this edition of The Accounting Historian.
-The annual meeting of the Japan Accounting Association was held in Sapporo from September 3 to 5, 1974. The study group on the History of Accounting Development in Japan made an interim report. This was the second report of the group, the first report, given last year, covered the period since the end of World War II.
Dr. Kurosawa, President of the Japan Accounting Society, can be contacted for more information about the work of this group. Professor Kojiro Nishikawa is serving as a contact member with regard to activities in Japan.
—Copies of the Papers and Proceedings of recent sessions of the Business History Conference can be obtained at the price of $5.00 per copy from Professor Fred Batement, Secretary-Treasurer, The Business History Conference, Graduate School of Business 670, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401.
(Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 9, 1975)
-The Annual Conference of the Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand (to include a session for the Accounting History Committee subgroup) will be held in Melbourne dur-ing August 1975. Dr. Murray Wells presented a paper “Steps in the Revolution in Accounting Theory,” at the February 1975 annual meeting of the History Committee.
-A workshop on “The Use of Historical Materials in Teaching Ac-counting” was conducted at the American Accounting Association Southwest Region meeting in Houston during March. Professors R. H. Hornburger, Jim G. Ashburne and Hans V. Johnson were panel members.
-The Ealing Business History Seminars (Dr. D. J. Oddy, Secretary) announces the third meeting to be held during May 1975. Papers of the meeting include:
—”Working Capital in the Early English Cotton Industry, 1770-1850,” Dr. S. D. Chapman. —”Some Aspects of Capital Formation in Shipping in the Age of
Sail and Steam,’’ Mr. R. S. Craig. —”Capital Formation, Entrepreneurship and Technical Progress:
a Case Study of Firms in Reading, 1800-1900,” Mr. T. A. B. Corley.
-“The Study of Accounting History,” was the subject of a concurrent session at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Region of the American Accounting Association hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Proceedings from the meeting will be published and can be obtained by writing Prof. Ed Coffman at VCU, Richmond 23284. Papers on Historical
Methodology, and Mediaeval Double-Entry (Prof. Martinelli) were the subjects of the session.
(Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 7, 1975)
—-The Accounting History Society (England) has announced its in-tention to prepare a newsletter (“Accounting History”) twice yearly. The Editorial Board of the newsletter includes John Freear, Geoffrey Lee and Robin Waldron. For information contact Professor Freear at Rutherford College, The University, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NX United Kingdom.
—The March 16-20, 1975 SW AAA Regional Meeting in San Antonio will feature a history session with Charles Handy, Adrian Kline, Joyce Lambert and Jos. Lambert. Contact Hans Johnson at The University of Texas, San Antonio for details.
—The Second World Congress of Accounting Historians is planned for August 19-22,1976 in Atlanta, Georgia. Contact Professor Hugh Hughes, College of Business, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303.
(Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 1, 1975)
