Persistence and Vigilance: A View of Ford Motor Company's Accounting Over Its First Fifty Years is an exploration of … upheaval of the early 20th century. Since its inception in 1903, the Ford Motor Company has implemented traditional accounting … methods, as well as innovative financial reporting and business policies, to navigate industry competition, two world wars …

accounting thought. He was one of the early accounting educators to express the high purpose of accounting and its importance in … the university, and he was among the early theorists in accounting to argue that accounting needed a coherent, theoretical … on accounting, but also shows how Paton was an active participant in the professional accounting organizations of his day …