King, Thomas A.,  1960- <br/><br/>
More than a numbers game :  a brief history of accounting / 
Thomas A. King. 
 - Hoboken, N.J. :  John Wiley & Sons,  c2006. 
 - xiii, 242 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Wiley finance .
 - Wiley finance. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-234) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  13.  14.  15. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0470008733 (cloth) 9780470008737 (cloth) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005037200 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Accounting--History.--United States<br/>Accounting--Standards--History.--United States<br/>Accounting--Law and legislation--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HF5616.U5  / K53 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>657.0973