This is a general history that begins with the British parentage of the firm from 1850-1901 and moves on to the American years beginning in 1901. It does include organizational charts from various years.

This book discuses a time period when the accounting profession was facing issues over third-party liability, confidence in the independence of public accountants, changes in standards and structure for self-regulation, and investigations in auditor performance, competition, education and minority participation, specialization and an increase in attention to international standards.

One of three books on public accounting firms from the Big Eight to the second tier written by Stevens. It was written between his two other books (see below) and tracks the changes to accounting firms in the early 1980’s brought on by the changing American and international economy.

This book focuses on the firms that make up of the Big Eight – Arthur Andersen; Arthur Young; Coopers & Lybrand; Deloitte Haskins & Sells; Ernst & Whitney; Peat, Marwick, Mitchell; Price Waterhouse; and Touche Ross.

There is a brief overview in the prologue about how mergers led to the emergence of the Big Six – Arthur Andersen, Coopers & Lybrand, Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG Peat Marwick, and Price Waterhouse. Several chapters are devoted to specific situations including Touche Ross and Beverly Hills Savings & Loan, ZZZZ Best, the tension at Andersen with the rise of consulting, and the remaking of Deloitte Haskins & Sells. The last two chapters detail the end of the Big Eight era and how the Big Six compete for clients.

This is general history of the firm. The title is broken into three major sections with the first covering the years 1845-1900, the second 1901-1956, and the last covering other offices of Deloitte & Co.

Printed in the University Illinois Bulletin (volume 40, Number 8 for October 13, 1942). Also see Zeff's The U.S. Accounting Profession in the 1890s and Early 1900s.

This is a general history of Coopers & Lybrand. It includes their 50th anniversary title covering the years 1898-1948 that was private printed by Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery. It also has a re-print of an article from the January-March 1958 L.R.B. & M. Journal (volume 39, number 1) which provides a picture of the firm at that time.

A general history of the firm from its founding in June of 1903 until 1960.

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This is a history of the firm published by the firm. It starts with the founding on December 1, 1913 and talks about the founder Arthur Andersen. It takes readers chronologically through its history through the year 1963. There is a reprint of this title in 1984 and an anniversary edition published ten years later in celebration of their 60th anniversary.

This book is a look into the 1989 merger involving the Big Eight accounting firms. Ernst & Whitney would merge with Arthur Young to form Ernst & Young while KPMG courted Coopers & Lybrand, and Price Waterhouse unsuccessfully courted Arthur Andersen, while Deloitte Haskins & Sells merged with Touche Ross. After all was done, the Big Eight would become eventually the Big Six.

This firm was started in New York by Charles Waldo Haskins and Elijah Watt Sells in 1896. It was renamed Touche, Ross, Bailey & Smart, in 1960 and later become Touche Ross in 1969. This is the firm that eventually merged with Deloitte to form Deloitte Haskins & Sells which merged with Touche Ross in 1989 to form Deloitte & Touche. This is a history of the firm and includes information on the founders.

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This is a history of the firm and does include information about the break-up of the firm in 2002 in the wake of ENRON, as well as a chapter on the implications for the wider public accounting industry.

Holdings cover 1967-1991, 1996.
Previous title: Yearbook - National Society of Public Accountants. Both are a continuation of the Membership Directory begun in 1957.

This is a general history of the firm from its genesis in London. Mentions are made of particular individuals and firms – Jones, Caesar & Co, the Dickinson team, William Bynner Campbell, John Crockhart Scobie. There are some special items as they relate to the firm as it was in 1950 including an organization chart, partners list (including birth date, birth location, apprenticeship to info), a list of the contract staff (with years of employment principal offices), and a list of the offices of members firms and resident partners/managers in charge. This is a reprint of book originally published in 1951.

This is a general history of the firm from its origins in Scotland and England and going forward.

Holdings: 1976-2010
"A directory - 8000 companies & 800 accounting firms." Includes some information on the accountants themselves.

This encyclopedia's more than 400 entries focus on such subjects as publications in the field, institutional bodies, accounting and economic concepts and much more. It is aimed at the student, researcher or professional.

An account of the first 36 members appointed to the Accounting Hall of Fame. It contains their biographies and contributions to the field. In the Preface it describes some of the qualifications that led to the selection of each accountant: for example, “A CPA who has been a partner in a public accounting firm. He has been active in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, serving as its president or the president of a state society of CPAs. He is a member of Beta Alpha Psi, the national accounting professional and scholastic organization for accounting students, and he has received the AICPAs highest honor, its Gold Medal. He has authored both accounting articles and books.” (iii) It then gives a quick account of some of the major contributions of the members and puts them into categories. Finally, it shows all of the 36 members in alphabetical order and gives a detailed description of their accomplishments, including their hobbies and a small part of their personal lives. With each description there is also a drawing of the face of the member along with a quote by the person.

Includes biographic sketches with contributions on a number of individuals including: Spurgeon Bell, James Bliss, William Morse Cole, Sir Arthur Lowes Dickinson, DeWitt Carl Eggleston, Paul-Joseph Esquerre, Henry Anson Finney, Stephen Gilman, Harry G. Guthmann, Henry Rand Hatfield, David Himmelblau, Roy Bernard Kester, Joseph Jerome Klein, Ananias Charles Littleton, James Oscar McKinsey, Robert H. Montgomery, George Hillis Newlove, Jerome Lee Nicholson, William Andrew Paton, Charles Forrest Rittenhouse, Earl Adolphus Saliers, D.R. Scott, Clinton Homer Scovell, Charles Ezra Sprague, Ross Graham Walker, and John R. Wildman. Each sketch includes citations to books and articles.

A second edition of was printed in 1954.

Carman Blough was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 1961. This is a series of reprints of article published by Blough throughout his career. Several are biographical in nature though most are about specific issues, practices, and industry situations.

Includes reprints of three titles of the same name: Duties of the Junior Accountant by W.B. Reynolds and F.W. Thornton, Duties of the Junior Accountant by Alfred B. Cipriani, and "Duties of the Junior Accountant" by R.K. Mautz. The title by Reynolds and Thornton is also available online via the Hathi Trust External. The work by Cipriani is described in an Editor's note as based "to some extent on an earlier work under the same title by W. B. Reynolds and F. W. Thornton."

This is a reprint of a title written by F.W. Thornton and John C. Martin in 1932. The Martin contribution was from a separate title, "Duties of Junior and Senior Accountants," a supplement to the CPA Handbook edited by Robert L. Kane, Jr..

Kohler was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 1961 and has written may works on accounting including one of the best accounting dictionaries. This is a collection of his writings.

This title is a series of articles written by several different authors covering aspects of Kohler's life and career, including his time as comptroller of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), his work at the General Accounting Office (GAO), work on the Marshall Plan, and his contributions to early accounting, etc.

Eric Kohler was a giant in the accounting world and wrote many books most notably his dictionary, a title that was the standard accounting dictionary for over 40 years. This is a history of his work in the profession and contributions to accounting principles. Particular attention is paid to his dictionary, accounting for government agencies, and his impact on the profession.

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This book is written in the first person. Montgomery gives an account of most of his life; which includes his education, career, and personal life as well. The rest of the book contains papers, reports, and prefaces by Montgomery. The chapters are divided into parts; the first part being Public Accounting, the second Taxes and How I was Forced Into The Practice of Law, third is War, and fourth Hobbies.

Spacek worked at Arthur Andersen beginning in 1928 and became a partner in 1940 after the death of Arthur Andersen. He was chief executive beginning in 1947 and served as chairman of the partnership from 1963 until he retired in 1973. This is a biography and history of the firm as seen through his tenure at the firm.

This book studies the first full-time accounting professor in a US university; his two textbooks, Modern Accounting (1909) and Accounting (1927), were among the most respected accounting works in the first half century. It is broken down into time periods: the first outlines his professional career, then moves to the early years 1866- 1904, the years 1904-1919/20 (at Berkeley and in Washington), the “historical Defense” and accounting between 1919/20-1930, and final active years, 1930-1945. There is a discussion of his contributions and personal life as well as information on his papers (the Hatfield Collection in the business school at the University of California, Berkeley) and publications.

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George May was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 1950 as part of its very first group. This is his autobiography and covers his professional career and contributions. It is divided into three parts, Part I Memoirs, Part II Accounting Thought, and Part III Thought Across the Years of the first inductee. In part I, the author described his education, how he wanted to study mathematics but a visit from a relative changed his mind and he decided to study accountancy instead. Details from his personal life are included, for example the people he met such as Arthur Lowes Dickinson, Robert H. Montgomery, and William Andrew Paton; as well as his beloved wife, career, how he traveled and was able to undertake projects assigned to him. Part II and III examine his thoughts on accounting and also contain his letters, lectures, speeches, and writings about accounting issues. At the very end, there is a collection of his “sayings” regarding accounting, such as “In the accounting field there seems to be a constant disposition to sacrifice accuracy to terseness” (296), which demonstrates a deeper view into May's accounting mind.

Paton was inducted to the Accounting Hall of Fame. This book begins with a biographical portrait of the author and is a collection “selected writings.” The author does well in including facts about Paton's life so the reader can relate to Paton on some level. The author moves on to Paton's writings, including, The Educational Value of training in Accounting, Assumptions of the Accountant, Aspects of Asset Valuations, etc.

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Brundage was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 1955. Family and general correspondence, speeches, writings, subject files, financial records, legal records, clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating to Brundage's service as director of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget and to his activities with the Atlantic Council of the United States; Federal Union; Price, Waterhouse & Company; and Project Hope. Subjects include the federal budget; economic policy; etc.

This is an autobiography detailing Bell's career over fifty years. It includes a number of brief anecdotes and other interesting memories.

This book contains essays and discussions and is edited by Bishop Carleton Hunt, honoring Mr. May for his 40 years of service to Price, Waterhouse & Co. where he was a senior partner for 25 years.

Among the major professions, certified public accountancy has the most severe underrepresentation of African Americans: less than 1 percent of CPAs are black. Theresa Hammond explores the history behind this statistic and chronicles the courage and determination of African Americans who sought to enter the field. In the process, she expands our understanding of the links between race, education, and economics. Drawing on interviews with pioneering black CPAs, among other sources, Hammond sets the stories of black CPAs against the backdrop of the rise of accountancy as a profession, the particular challenges that African Americans trying to enter the field faced, and the strategies that enabled some blacks to become CPAs. Prior to the 1960s, few white-owned accounting firms employed African Americans. Only through nationwide networks established by the first black CPAs did more African Americans gain the requisite professional experience. The civil rights era saw some progress in integrating the field, and black colleges responded by expanding their programs in business and accounting. In the 1980s, however, the backlash against affirmative action heralded the decline of African American participation in accountancy and paved the way for the astonishing lack of diversity that characterizes the field today.