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Harold Cecil Edey
Harold Cecil Edey was instrumental in the development of British accounting thought in the mid-1900s, and his scholarship influenced a generation of students. This edited collection of his unpublished manuscripts sheds light on his contribution to modern accounting thought.
Historical Developments in the Accountancy Profession, Financial Reporting, and Accounting Theory
Historical Developments in the Accountancy Profession, Financial Reporting, and Accounting Theory contains ten manuscripts authored by C. Richard Baker during an academic career that spans four decades, picking up on various understudied threads of academic and professional initiatives over the past several hundred years.
A. C. Littleton’s Final Thoughts on Accounting
Volume 20 of Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought (SDAT) is informative and provides reflective analysis in line with other volumes in the series.
The Australian Accounting Academic in the 1950s
This article examines the challenges faced by an Australian accounting academic, R. J. Chambers, in the 1950s, in breaking into the accounting research community; at that time almost entirely located in the United States and the United Kingdom. For academics outside the networks of accounting research publication in these countries, there were significant, but not insurmountable obstacles to conducting and publishing accounting research. We examine how these obstacles could be overcome, using the notion of “trials of strength” to trace the efforts of Chambers in wrestling with intellectual issues arising from post-war inflation, acquiring accounting literature from abroad, and publishing his endeavors.
Accounting Thought and Practice Reform
Raymond John Chambers was born just over a century ago on 16 November 1917. It is more than fifty years since his first classic, Accounting, Evaluation and Economic Behavior, was published, more than forty since Securities and Obscurities: Reform of the Law of Company Accounts (republished in 1980 as Accounting in Disarray) and over twenty since the unique An Accounting Thesaurus: Five Hundred Years of Accounting. They are drawn upon extensively in this biography of Chambers’ intellectual contributions, as are other of his published works. Importantly, we also analyze archival correspondence not previously examined. While Chambers provided several bibliographical summaries of his work, wit...
Accounting Measurements, Profit, and Loss
This study presents a hereto unpublished one-act play that was used in the teaching of advanced accounting seminars at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the 1960s. The original author of this play, Harold C. Edey, is one of the intellectual forefathers in the development of British accounting thought and the aim of his exercise was to explore the problem of profit determination, and appropriate taxation, during a period of changes in specific and general prices. To contextualize this play, the study also traces the history of the institution, the author, and some of the ideas from the accounting measurement literature that would have been familiar to students attending these advanced accounting seminars.
Alvin R. Jennings
Alvin R. Jennings (1905-1990) was a rare breed of an accountant. He was trained as a practitioner and rose to become a managing partner at Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery, but he kept a constant watch on the academic field of accounting research. Jennings served on the influential American Institute of Accountants' Committee on Auditing Procedure (1946-49) and later as the president of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (1957-58). This paper explores these activities and Jennings' contribution to the professional, academic, and institution discourse of the accounting discipline.
Elmer G. Beamer and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
This paper investigates Elmer G. Beamer's (1909-2000) activities at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants during a thirty-year period beginning in the 1950s, using a theoretical lens from the sociology of professions literature. Beamer was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1909 and trained as an accountant with Haskins & Sells after graduating from high school. He stayed with the same firm throughout his career and rose to the position of partner. While in public practice, Beamer gave unselfishly of his time to the profession. As a member of the AICPA, Beamer chaired the Committee on the Common Body of Knowledge of CPAs, Committee on Education and Experience Requirements, and the ...
A. C. Littleton's Final Thoughts on Accounting
This edited volume represents Ananias Charles Littleton's (1886-1974) final monograph on accounting theory. Its purpose is twofold. It is a continuation of his seminal monographs Accounting Evolution to 1900 (1933), Structure of Accounting Theory (1953), and Introduction to Corporate Accounting Standards (with William A. Paton, 1940). It is also a response to some of Littleton's fiercest critics, such as Raymond J. Chambers, Robert Sterling, and William T. Baxter. The volume constitutes his last “excursion into accounting theory.” It marks Littleton's concluding attempt to examine aspects of accounting practices with the goal of inductively deriving “... elements of implicit logic capa...
