Under the Ancien Régime France, collecting taxes was a business affair confided by the King to businessmen. After several unfruitful attempts to have his revenue under control, the King finally imposed, in 1788, the centralisation of the Treasury and the use of double entry bookeeping in that...

En France, le rythme de production de travaux d'histoire de la gestion des organisations augmente de façon significative depuis une dizaine d'années. C'est l'occasion d'un travail pluridisciplinaire fructueux entre gestionnaires, historiens, économistes et sociologues. Cet article tente donc...

This paper sets out to examine the development, in Britain and France prior to 1880, of industrial accounting, defined for the purposes of this paper as the practice of cost calculation within an accounting system based on double entry bookkeeping. Similarities and differences between the two...

Approximately 40 international congresses of accountants took place between 1889 and 2002. Before World War II, accountants were divided between two international networks: a group of Latin countries and a group led by the USA. Only the latter continued their activity after World War II. From...

Many researchers in management or in history of management often work on best sellers whereas the interest of such books could seem limited. This article tries to explain the reasons of the success. We have studied the historical case of the book of Eugène Léautey and Adolphe Guilbault, La...

When did the word comptabilité (accounting) appeared ? Which have been its different meanings? Those are the two questions addressed here. Drawing from accounting text- books and dictionaries, we try to describe and explain the emergence of the word after 1750, the competition with tenue des...

Nous examinons ici des expériences variées de calcul uniforme des coûts, dans des secteurs et à des époques distinctes, et nous essayons de mettre en évidence les raisons de leur apparition, ainsi que leurs différences. Nous affirmons ici que pendant l'entre deux guerres les systèmes...

Les auteurs comptables considérés sont ceux qui ont produit des ouvrages de doctrine, entre 1494, date de la publication du premier ouvrage et le milieu du XX° siècle, date à partir de laquelle l'élaboration de la doctrine a été ‘socialisée', c'est-à-dire prise en charge par des...