Product Description: This volume faithfully reproduces the public correspondence between Mr. Thomas A. Murphy, former Board Chairman of General Motors Corporation, and two accounting leaders, during the latter two's term of service as Chair of the Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Hardbound. Foundations for the Future documents the many significant events that impacted the accounting profession during the years 1980-1995. This time period was critical for our profession. The AICPA membership doubled and the nature of services offered to clients was dramatically transformed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book ties together selected contributions by George Staubus to the early development of the decision-usefulness theory of financial accounting--the theory that has become generally accepted accounting theory in the last half of the twentieth century and is the basis for the FASB's conceptual framework...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The only comprehensive chronicle of American accountancy from the colonial period to the present, this completely revised edition provides practicing accountants and professional accounting students with a thorough knowledge of the origins of their profession. Gary John Previts and Barbara Dubis Merino address the evolution of accounting in social, political, and economic terms and discuss the major figures in each historical period. They consider the development of accounting in all of its major institutional domains, including public practice, financial reporting, business management, government, and education.

Product Description: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in 1996

Product Description: Accounting carries with its history a vast number of ideas which have slowly developed along with it. This volume relates this history as it took place during the first three decades of the twentieth century in the United States. In particular it deals with those individuals who were for the most part responsible for it...read more

Traces the history of the accounting firm of Price Waterhouse, discussing its role as auditor to America's largest corporations (view table of contents)

Product Description: First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Indicts accounting and auditing firms and related organizations and institutions, including the prestigious American Institute of Public Accountants, for allying themselves with corporate management in the preparation of deceptive, inaccurate corporate financial statements. Bibliogs

Describes accounting theory and the dubious practices that have emerged in recent years, urging reform to restore the integrity of the accounting profession