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More than a numbers game : a brief history of accounting / Thomas A. King.

By: King, Thomas A, 1960-Material type: Text

TextSeries: Wiley finance: Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2006Description: xiii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0470008733 (cloth); 9780470008737 (cloth)Subject(s): Accounting -- United States -- History | Accounting -- Standards -- United States -- History | Accounting -- Law and legislation -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 657.0973 LOC classification: HF5616.U5 | K53 2006Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description | Contributor biographical information

Contents:

About the cover -- Preface -- Double-entry -- Railroads -- Taxes -- Costs -- Disclosure -- Standards -- Science -- Inflation -- Volatility -- Intangibles -- Debt -- Options -- Earnings -- SOX -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.

Review: "More Than a Numbers Game takes a detailed look at more than one hundred years of corporate accounting history in the United States - from the initial use of double-entry bookkeeping to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) - and shows how accounting has solved numerous financial problems as well as created substantial controversy along the way."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-234) and index.

About the cover -- Preface -- 1. Double-entry -- 2. Railroads -- 3. Taxes -- 4. Costs -- 5. Disclosure -- 6. Standards -- 7. Science -- 8. Inflation -- 9. Volatility -- 10. Intangibles -- 11. Debt -- 12. Options -- 13. Earnings -- 14. SOX -- 15. Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.

"More Than a Numbers Game takes a detailed look at more than one hundred years of corporate accounting history in the United States - from the initial use of double-entry bookkeeping to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) - and shows how accounting has solved numerous financial problems as well as created substantial controversy along the way."--Jacket.

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