The Accounting Historians Journal
Fall 1979
Volume 6, Number 2

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THE ACCOUNTING HISTORIANS JOURNAL
Semiannual Publication of The Academy of Accounting Historians
Volume 6, Number 2    Fall 1979

CONTENTS

Feature Articles

Cost Accounting: An Institutional Yardstick For Measuring British Entrepreneurial Performance, Circa 1914 — Robert R. Locke
Development of Corporate Accounting in Australia — Robert W.  Gibson
Distribution Cost Analysis Methodologies, 1901  – 1941 — Paul F. Anderson

Historical Nuggets

On The Life of Luca Pacioli — Akira Nakanishi
An 1870 Corporate Audit Committee — Thomas E. McKee

Book Reviews                

SCHMALENBACH AND AFTER
IL BILANCIO  Dl  UNA AZIENDA LANIERA DEL TRECENTO
DIE CASA Dl S. GIORGIO: GENUESER FINANZWESEN  MIT BESONDERER BERUECKSICHTIGUNG DER CASA Dl S. GIORGIO,  II
TRANSPORTATION COSTS AND COSTING 1917-1973
HISTORY OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTING IN THE UNITED STATES
SOULE’S NEW SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF ACCOUNTS

Research and Publication  Features

Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts—Collins, Moreira, Finkel,
Tarn, Divecha, Kahn, Zervoudakis
Announcements