| Автор | Heier, Jan R. |
| Дата выпуска | 1992 |
| dc.description | Archival searches and the case study have traditionally been the primary research tools used by accounting historians to further their knowledge of the development of accounting practices. The case-study method, though, has a limited scope because it often emphasizes the practices of a single participant in the business community. This fosters an implicit fallacy which assumes that the practices of this player are those of the community in general. Such a fallacy tends to overshadow a much needed question: how much of the business community accepted certain accounting practices? The study presented in this paper addresses this question and applies the statistical techniques of content analysis and proportions tests to determine whether retail stores in the states of Alabama and Mississippi during the mid-nineteenth century used accounting techniques that they developed themselves or used ones that were presented in bookkeeping texts published in the northern states. The results show that, while some of the accounting practices outlined in the books, especially double-entry accounting and closing entries, were in widespread use among the majority of stores, the central hypothesis that the stores in Alabama and Mississippi used the ‘northern model’ consistently could not be accepted. |
| Формат | application.pdf |
| Издатель | Taylor & Francis Ltd. |
| Копирайт | Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC |
| Название | A quantitative study of accounting methods in mid-nineteenth-century Alabama and Mississippi: an application of content analysis |
| Тип | research-article |
| DOI | 10.1080/09585209200000027 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1466-4275 |
| Print ISSN | 0958-5206 |
| Журнал | Accounting, Business & Financial History |
| Том | 2 |
| Первая страница | 69 |
| Последняя страница | 90 |
| Аффилиация | Heier, Jan R.; Auburn University at Montgomery |
| Выпуск | 1 |
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