Following the stock market crash of 1929 accountants were entrusted with a new profession and a new mandate to pore over the books of public companies to ensure that the financial records accurately ...

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Public Company Accounting Oversight Board chairman James Doty recently delivered an illuminating history of the accounting profession in New York during a speech. The speech, during an auditing ...

The Accounting Review, Vol. 91, No. 1 (JANUARY 2016), pp. 299-315 (17 pages) The emergence of double entry bookkeeping marked the shift in bookkeeping from a mechanical task to a skilled craft, and ...

Cryptocurrency is a revolution, but maybe it’s not the revolution you imagined. That’s because more than anything, crypto is a revolution in accounting. While most people might not think much about ...

You and University of Western Australia’s Philip Brown coauthored a paper in 1968, when you were both PhD students at the University of Chicago, that linked earnings to market value, revolutionizing ...

Barry Melancon, CPA, CGMA, who retired as CEO of AICPA & CIMA in December, will be inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame by the American Accounting Association (AAA). Melancon will be among four ...