Using archival and published sources, the author studies the evolution of thinking, teaching and writing at the Harvard Business School from 1908 to 1980 in the areas of cost/management accounting, financial accounting, and management control, including information systems, and how the Business...

From its founding in 1934 until the early 1970s, the SEC and especially its Chief Accountant disapproved of most upward revaluations in property, plant and equipment as well as depreciation charges based on such revaluations. This article is a historical study of the evolution of the SEC's...

Future developments in financial reporting, we believe, will need to be in the form of expansions beyond the basic financial statements, as we now know them. Any meaningful reform of the income statement and balance sheet alone is made difficult, if not impossible, by the constraints imposed by...

The aim of this paper is to trace the principal ideas in Paton and Littleton's influential 1940 monograph to their previous and contemporaneous writings, and thus to uncover the ideas' origins in the literature

Based on Camfferman & Zeff (2015) we reflect on possibilities for academic research on the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and its International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs). We argue that a research agenda may be formed around the notion that the IASB differs from...

The first two-thirds of this paper is a review and analysis of the evolution of the accounting research and education environments, primarily in the United States but also with respect to Canada, from the 1960s to the present time. The final third of the paper consists of a critique of...

Although many countries have passed laws to require the use of ‘IFRS as issued by the IASB' for certain types of financial reporting, that is not the typical approach to adoption of IFRS in major developed countries. This paper uses Australia and Pakistan as examples of minor and major...

The 1972 report of the Wheat Study on Establishment of Accounting Principles became the blueprint for the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which began its official operations on July 1, 1973, succeeding the Accounting Principles Board. The FASB was the world's first independent,...

This paper examines the background and work of the AICPA's Accounting Objectives Study Group, chaired by Robert M. Trueblood, which issued its important report in October 1973. In particular, the research is informed by interviews with three members of the Study Group and with four of the...

This paper discusses the circumstances in which the Accounting Principles Board issued Opinions 3 and 19, in 1963 and 1971, respectively, when the Board encouraged and then required companies to publish a statement of source and application of funds, known as the funds statement. In doing so,...