Pub Date : 2017-08-03DOI: 10.1080/21552851.2017.1359100
José-Miguel Lana-Berasain
ABSTRACT The accountability, which both monitors and other officials have to users, is an important condition for long-lasting common pool resources. This study examines the historical use of accounting techniques as an ingredient of common property regimes, emphasising stewardship theory. The use of accounting by peasant communities, at least from the sixteenth century, is demonstrated through two case studies: a small irrigation community (Regadío de Arbanta) and a large intercommon forest (Sierra de Lóquiz), both in the Spanish province of Navarre. Although other hierarchical institutions, such as royal officers, religious entities and lords, made use of calculation at the time, the peculiarity of peasant accounting is that it was embedded in an egalitarian culture and served to ensure intergenerational reciprocity. Small size and low levels of inequality favoured accountability in a horizontal scheme. The article concludes that those rural communities made use of the calculation technologies available during the Renaissance mainly due to endogenous motivation. The use of accounting served the needs of local communities’ financial control, and reinforced community links, thereby favouring the sustainability of both the communities themselves and their resources.
监督者和其他官员对使用者的问责制是公共资源持久存在的重要条件。本研究考察了会计技术作为共同财产制度组成部分的历史使用，强调了管理理论。至少从16世纪开始，农民社区使用会计通过两个案例研究来证明:西班牙纳瓦拉省的一个小型灌溉社区(Regadío de Arbanta)和一个大型公共森林(Sierra de Lóquiz)。尽管其他等级制度，如皇室官员、宗教团体和领主，在当时也使用了计算，但农民会计的特点在于，它植根于平等主义文化，并有助于确保代际互惠。规模小、不平等程度低有利于横向方案中的问责制。文章的结论是，这些农村社区利用文艺复兴时期可用的计算技术主要是出于内生动机。会计的使用满足了地方社区财政控制的需要，并加强了社区的联系，从而有利于社区本身及其资源的可持续性。
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Pub Date : 2017-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21552851.2017.1326955
Lan Peng, Alistair M. Brown
ABSTRACT This study examines the Chinese accounting reformation of the 1930s. The reformist work of Xu, the 1929 Company Law and the rapid expansion of Chinese commercial activity allowed a melding of the Westernised debit-credit model with the Chinese traditional accounting model. The fusion was complex, partly because two competing groups – reformationists and transformationists – had a different sense of scientific accounting development. What transpired, however, was a clinging by small to medium-sized entities to the Chinese traditional indigenous bookkeeping system, a preparedness by other small to medium-sized entities to take on Xu’s reformed Chinese-style method, and a willingness by large entities to engage with Western forms of accounting.
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Pub Date : 2017-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21552851.2017.1286820
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Pub Date : 2017-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21552851.2016.1264984
R. Baker, Morina D. Rennie
ABSTRACT This study examines the introduction of an accounting technology in the Province of Canada, namely the collection and reporting of all revenues and expenditures from departments and customs offices. Drawing on insights from Foucault’s discontinuities in systems of thought, governmentality, and discipline, we argue that while this technology was not an incontrovertibly superior approach, it was consistent with a new rhetoric associated with the transition from colonial sovereign rule to responsible government.
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Pub Date : 2017-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21552851.2017.1323652
Y. Sumi
ABSTRACT This study presents an additional important case clarifying the role of accounting in reconciling the dilemma faced by Japanese special companies in choosing between pursuing profits as a private entity and responding to the national interest under the conditions of the Second World War. The focus is placed on the transformations that occurred in the accounting practices adopted by the South Seas Development Company (SSDC), a special company heavily committed to Japan’s territory management in Micronesia during the inter-war period. The study demonstrates that the SSDC’s management initially used accounting information, such as segment profitability, to make economic decisions for the purpose of selecting its business centres, in response to the ‘South Construction Project’ requested by the Japanese army. However, subsequent to the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, the nature of accounting information used was transformed in order for the SSDC to be able to manipulate accounting income to secure an acceptable level of dividends to respond to the demands of shareholders.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-19DOI: 10.1080/21552851.2017.1314014
M. Giraudeau
The shop, the factory, the office: these appear, to the popular imaginary, as natural sites for accounting, and for accountants. They are the places where accounting is usually said to be invented and practised, the places where accounting sustains business. The shop stands for commerce, which reportedly saw the emergence of double-entry bookkeeping in the so-called ‘commercial revolution’ of the early-modern times. The factory stands out as the chief target of management accounting from the nineteenth century and its ‘industrial revolution’. The office is where accounting clerks work, but also itself an object of productive accountability in the ‘service economy’ of the twentieth century.
{"title":"The farm as an accounting laboratory: an essay on the history of accounting and agriculture","authors":"M. Giraudeau","doi":"10.1080/21552851.2017.1314014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21552851.2017.1314014","url":null,"abstract":"The shop, the factory, the office: these appear, to the popular imaginary, as natural sites for accounting, and for accountants. They are the places where accounting is usually said to be invented and practised, the places where accounting sustains business. The shop stands for commerce, which reportedly saw the emergence of double-entry bookkeeping in the so-called ‘commercial revolution’ of the early-modern times. The factory stands out as the chief target of management accounting from the nineteenth century and its ‘industrial revolution’. The office is where accounting clerks work, but also itself an object of productive accountability in the ‘service economy’ of the twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":43233,"journal":{"name":"Accounting History Review","volume":"21 1","pages":"201 - 215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81700828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21552851.2016.1192048
José-Manuel Prado-Lorenzo, Rufino García-Salinero, M. González-Bravo
ABSTRACT Pósitos were institutions established in Spain from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries onwards to ensure continuity in the supply of grain (at reasonable prices) to sectors of the rural population of modest means, for whom they provided a vitally important subsistence lifeline in years of bad harvests. They were funded by a mixture of contributions from local municipal councils, from the Church and from wealthy individuals, and each pósito was governed by its own individual foundation documents until 1584, when a Royal Pragmatic (a type of legislation particular to Spain) introduced a common system of regulation to be followed by all pósitos. The main purpose of this article is to describe and analyse the development of the operational and accounting regulations applicable to pósitos and to contextualise the issuance of new or updated regulations against a range of background political, social and economic developments, beginning with the standardisation of the pósitos in 1584 and ending with their virtual disappearance in 1998. Although the bookkeeping employed in the administration of the pósitos continued to be in single-entry form, in association with related internal controls it was adequate to record the transactions undertaken by the pósitos.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21552851.2016.1192049
Christian Lohmann, Marc Eulerich
ABSTRACT Our study charts the development of the accounting community by tracing publication trends and changes in methodology, including a major shift towards positive and neoclassical economics, multi-authorship and the prevalence of particular institutions, as reflected in The Accounting Review (TAR) between 1926 and 2014. Using network analysis, we identify distinct networks in this community and show that while the network of the institutions to which TAR authors were affiliated in the analysed period became diverse, the network of the institutions from which TAR authors received their doctorate remained dominated by a relatively small group of élite US universities.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21552851.2016.1246255
A. Arnold
ABSTRACT World War II had major effects on the British economy, yet we know very little about wartime levels of profitability, despite their importance to individual businessmen, to signalling mechanisms for resource allocation, and to social cohesion under wartime conditions. The Companies Acts of 1947–1948 greatly improved corporate disclosures and brought many existing secret reserves to the surface. This study analyses the publicly filed information of a set of major UK-quoted companies in order to provide a consistent series of profit rates for British industry and thereby add to our knowledge of the trans-war period 1938–1950.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21552851.2016.1264985
M. Lampe, P. Sharp
ABSTRACT We discuss the early development of sophisticated agricultural accounting in Northern Germany and Denmark within a framework that establishes the role of accounting for knowledge generation and subsequent economic growth. We highlight the work of Thaer, on encouraging and systematising the use of double-entry bookkeeping in agriculture for scientific and efficiency purposes, and that of Gyllembourg, who emphasised the calculation of economic returns in monetary value. Evidence exists to suggest that their work was the basis upon which further developments in accounting practice in the nineteenth century were laid, supporting the rapid modernisation and success of Danish agriculture.
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