"Chink!" A Documentary History of Anti-Chinese Prejudice in America
In: International migration review: IMR, Volume 9, Issue 2, p. 260
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
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In: International migration review: IMR, Volume 9, Issue 2, p. 260
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
In: International migration review: IMR, Volume 8, Issue 4, p. 581
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
In: Military Affairs, Volume 37, Issue 3, p. 112
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Volume 45, Issue 3, p. 475
ISSN: 1715-3379
In: International migration review: IMR, Volume 6, Issue 4, p. 465
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
In: International migration review: IMR, Volume 6, Issue 4, p. 455
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Volume 37, Issue 3, p. 339
ISSN: 1715-3379
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Volume 47, Issue 3, p. 421
ISSN: 0004-9522
In: International migration review: IMR, Volume 33, Issue 3, p. 769
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
In: Accounting historians journal: a publication of the Academy of Accounting Historians Section of the American Accounting Association, Volume 21, Issue 1, p. 145-161
ISSN: 2327-4468
This paper investigated the accounting system of Walker Evans & Cogswell, a printing company in Charleston, South Carolina, in order to ascertain the nature and influence of management accounting during the New South Movement. Through archival analysis, the accounting techniques used by the Company were found to be effective management tools for planning and control during the period in which the Southern economy was transformed from agrarian to manufacturing. The findings raise new questions about existing studies on nineteenth century managerial accounting, especially for the printing industry.
In: International migration review: IMR, Volume 9, Issue 1, p. 72
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
In: The journal of military history, Volume 65, Issue 3, p. 836
ISSN: 0899-3718
In: Military Affairs, Volume 37, Issue 1, p. 34
In: Accounting historians journal: a publication of the Academy of Accounting Historians Section of the American Accounting Association, Volume 37, Issue 2, p. 39-65
ISSN: 2327-4468
Empirical research to date has neglected accounting and external financial reporting among 18th century American charitable institutions. Contemporary understanding of 18th century American practices is supported by evidence relating to commercial transactions primarily among colonial merchants. Our study examines the accounting and financial reporting of the Charleston Orphan House, the first municipal orphanage in America, from its inception in 1790 through its first five years of operations. The institution was established by city ordinance in 1790 which required the institution "to keep a book of fair and regular accounts of all receipts and expenditures which will be subject at all times to the inspection of the Commissioners." The ordinance charged the orphanage's Committee on Accounts to "audit" its accounts. The City Council required the institution's board chairman to countersign the financial statements in 1792 before subjecting them to a second "audit." The Orphan House employed a system of account books that recorded and facilitated the reporting of expenditures and sources of funds. Accounting and external reporting may have been legitimizing factors to overcome the "liability of newness" by promoting a sense of propriety and transparency among benefactors."I visited the Orphan House at which there were one hundred and seven boys and girls. This appears to be a charitable organization and under good management."[President George Washington, diary entry, Saturday, May 7, 1791]
In: International migration review: IMR, Volume 5, Issue 1, p. 110
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183