| Description |
1 online resource (441 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Library Editions: Accounting ; volume 4 |
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Routledge library editions. Accounting ; v. 4.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; History; An Historical Defense of Book-keeping; Some Topics in the History of Financial Accounting in England, 1500-1900; Asset Valuation and Income Theory; Income Measurement in a Dynamic Economy; Economics and Accounting: The Uncongenial Twins; The Nature and Measurement of Income; The Economist's Cost Concept and Business Problems; The Accounting Theory of Profit: An Analysis Based on Material from Practice; What's Wrong with Accounting?; Capital Value and Income |
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Allocation: the Fallacy and the TheoristsAsset Values and Enterprise Income; Depreciation; Depreciation and Obsolescence as Factors in Costing; Price Change; An Application of Replacement Value Theory; Postscript; The Accountant and the Community; Toward a Theory for Social Accounting; Authority; The Role of the Reporting Accountant Today; Accounting Standards in the British Isles; Law; The Evolution of the Dividend Law of England; Outside the Law; The Greatest Accountant in the World; The Case of the Royal Mail; Special Aspects; Portfolio Theory and Accounting |
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Accounting Research, Education, and PracticeThings to Come; Diversified Models-An Alternative to the Illusion of Certainty in Accounting Reports; Predictive Value: A Criterion for Choice of Accounting Methods; Index |
| Summary |
This volume brings together noteworthy articles in accounting. Some of the pieces existed in journals, but many were commissioned specifically for this volume. They fill gaps in the usual text-books, gaps that are particularly glaring where concepts are at issue. Among other things the articles cover: depreciationdividend lawsocial accountingvalue and incomeinflation |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Accounting.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Accounting -- Financial.
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Accounting
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baxter, William T. (William Threipland), 1906-2006.
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Davidson, Sidney, 1919-2007.
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Davidson, Sidney
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| ISBN |
9781134632404 |
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1134632401 |
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9781134632336 |
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1134632339 |
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9781315885476 |
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1315885476 |
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1306419263 |
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9781306419260 |
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9780415709552 |
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0415709555 |
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