John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2006, 242 pp. Thomas A. King’s light-handed romp through the annals of accounting history brings together the facts, the data, the personalities and some of the best lines of ...

IMGCAP(1)]In 1998 I read that Andersen Consulting would be spending $100 million to brand their company. This seemed unusual for a few reasons. 1. They were in heated litigation with Arthur Andersen ...

Using several data-analysis techniques, this paper seeks to construct a brief history of Accounting Information Systems (AIS). In an effort to achieve some degree of comprehensiveness, this paper ...

A HISTORY OF double-entry accounting? Not a sexy prospect. The very idea evokes rows of half-starved, bent-over Dickensian clerks, with visors and arthritic hands, scribbling in giant, unending ...