This is a helpful encyclopedia for accountants to answer any questions they might face in their daily professional life. Paton issued additional editions in 1934, 1937, 1938, 1943. Later editions continued using alternate editors including D. R. Carmichael.

A basic text on accounting. There is a reprint of this title in 1971. The title includes bibliographies and index.

This presentation of accounting practices and principles has an audience that is not accounting professionals so the detail and perspective will not be like those in an accounting textbook or handbook whose primary audience are CPAs.

A text-book like explanation of the subject of accounting, starting with bookkeeping and finishing with the duties and responsibility of the public accountant. The reproduction contains a small biography of Dickinson. A second edition was published in 1918.

This is more of an introductory accounting handbook.

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There are other editions published in 1922, 1930, 1933, 1934. The 1916 edition is also available in microfiche.

This book was intended for college and university students, as well as professionals to help with the study of advanced accounting.

This is an advanced textbook that looks at more complex accounting issues.

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This title is focused on topics specific to auditing like planning the audit but also on specifics like the treatment of cash, receivables, inventories, liabilities, etc. A second edition was printed in 1954.

This textbook covers auditing principles, auditing problems, and related auditing topics.

This is an important title on auditing and its functions. It touches on all subjects used in auditing as well as accounting. The first edition was published in 1915 with additional editions printed in 1921, 1929, 1934, 1940, 1949, 1957, 1975, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1990, and 1998. A variety of individuals have served as editors of later editions.

Chapters include: Modern accounting methods; The accountant, the industrial engineer, and the banker; The present day accountant : his contribution to the problems of financing; The accountant's function as business adviser; The functions and duties of the office of comptroller; The possibilities and the dangers inherent in mergers, consolidations and acquisitions; The accountant and his clientele; Duties and responsibilities of the comptroller; Excerpts from Mr. Andersen's talk before the annual meeting of the partners and managers of Arthur Andersen & Co.; etc.

This is a general book on cost accounting.

This book contains reprinted lectures given in the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration through the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Fund. George Oliver May was an appointed lecturer in 1936-37 and gave three lectures regarding the improvement of financial accounts. He divided it into Historical, The Problem of Uniformity, and Practical Lines of Improvement. Sir Laurence Halsey, 1937-38, gave lectures on The Position of the Public Accountant in Relation to Business and Government in Great Britain. He divided his talks into The Origin of The Profession and Its Function in Relation to Limited Liability Companies, and The Function of Public Accountants in Relation to Public Institutions, Private individuals, and Government Departments. Finally, William A. Paton (Accounting Hall of Fame Inductee) 1939-40, gave lectures on Recent and Prospective Developments in Accounting Theory. He divides his lectures into Preliminary Considerations, The Focus of Accounting, Measurement of Performance, The Period of Reckoning, and Costs and Values.

This is an introductory accounting textbook.

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This is a collection of essays from articles and other sources. It is broken down into 4 parts - History, Theory, the Profession, and Education.

This is essentially a textbook on accounting, defining accounting and its terms. Additional editions were printed in 1949, 1958, and 1966.

This book touches on the subject of what is financial accounting and all of the subjects that fall under it such as depreciation and cost. It also contains a historical part on the “development of business and corporate accounts.”

This is a basic accounting textbook.

This is a basic accounting textbook.

This book contains the original publication of May's lectures at Harvard University in 1937 on the topic of Improvement in financial accounts.

This introductory title presents the standards and framework accountants use to analyze corporations and write up reports.

This is an introductory accounting textbook.

Other editions are available for 1936, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1948, 1953 (this edition was the first to be done jointly with Herbert E. Miller), 1957, 1958 (related names Herbert E. Miller and C. Lin Mitchell), 1963, 1965 (related names Herbert E. Miller and Charles Mitchell), 1970 (related names Glenn L. Johnson and James A. Gentry, Jr.), 1972, and 1980.

This is a reprint of a 1909 edition and is a basic accounting text.

There is also a Modern Business Arithmetic, brief course, published in 1916. A revised edition was also issued in 1922.

This is a textbook treating of accounting practices. Another edition printed in 1931.

Other editions were also published in 1931, 1934, 1935, 1942, 1946, 1951, 1958, 1959, 1965, 1966, and 1974. In the 1951 edition Herbert Miller was added as an author. By the 1974 it was known as Finney and Miller's "Principles of Accounting," by Glenn L. Johnson and James A. Gentry.

This textbook covers the principles of accounting and includes exercises and problems for practicing. Another edition was printed in 1918 but, more modern editions printed in 1976 and 1978.

First published in 1917 as vol. I of the author's "Accounting Theory and Practice."

This is a textbook treatment of auditing practices. Other editions published in 1927 and 1932.

This book is a description of what profit means in a company, in terms of assets, dividends, stockholders, etc.

On cover: "The lectures delivered [under the Arthur Lowes Dickinson fund] ... at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in the spring of 1940 are reproduced herewith."

This title is broken into six parts: History (An historical defense of bookkeeping -- Public rules for private accounting in France, 1673 and 1807 -- Old and new in management and accounting -- Increasing emphasis on accounting as a social force); Postulates and principles; Price-level changes; Cost analysis; Accounting under regulation; and Specialized topics .

This book contains "a full exposition ... of double and single entry bookkeeping, with the most approved ... forms of merchandising, commission ... and other lines of business ... "
It also contains a brief summary of the history of accounting books and its authors. Editions were also printed in 1891, 1895, 1903, 1906, and 1911.

This title includes accounting reproductions of pronouncements of both the Committee on Accounting Procedure and the Committee on Auditing Procedure. It terminates in 1953 because that was the year the Institute's Committee on Accounting Procedure issued a restatement and revision of its first 42 Accounting Research Bulletins.

This title provides information about the ways a business would function and keep its accounts back in the 1920s, which includes the development of billing machines, time cards, duties defined, filling orders, etc. The library holds Volumes 1-7.

This is a straight dictionary of accounting terms which predates the dictionary produced by Eric Kohler. Editions are available for 1930 and 1936.

This bibliography, created by Walter Hausdorfer, a scholar and librarian at Temple University, contains books and titles related to the method of accounting though the author indicates in his preface that some other important treatises were included. It seems that the author did not include European works after 1801 due to the sheer number unless they were reprinted or adapted in the Americas. Hausdorfer also indicates that the cut-off for works is 1910 because he felt that there was a new wave of accounting beginning about that time. There was an attempt to determine locations of individual items at the time of publication when possible. Part III covers printed works and manuscripts, Part IV focusses on accounting and bookkeeping periodicals, Part V is a chronological index to first printed works and manuscripts, Part VI lists bibliographies and biographies, Part VII is a bibliography of accounting history, and lastly Part VIII is a subject index.

Volume one covers the years 1796-1900 and volume two covers the years 1901-1934. Both volumes have an author index while volume 2 has a subject index. There are reprints for this title in 1970 and a one volume edition in 2005.

Volume 3 of this encyclopedia contains information regarding Income Tax, Corporations (Corporation Accounting), and Accounting. Volume 2 contains information regarding Production, Personnel, and Cost Accounting.

For many years this was the standard dictionary of accounting. Later editions were printed in 1957, 1963, 1970, 1975, and 1983.

Dictionary style listing all of the terms with definitions associated with cost accounting. Additional editions published in 1937 and 1952.

The title contains detailed descriptions on Modern Practical Accounting in volume VII, Higher Accountancy in volume VIII, and Auditing and Cost Accounting in volume XI.