The Google ebookstore provides a fairly large number of free ebooks related to accounting history. I will be adding a number of these to MAAW's topic pages and will include a complete list of the ones I have added (with links) on MAAW's Books Summaries page.
Of course there are also lots of books for sale. A search on Google accounting ebooks produced to following link:
http://books.google.com/ebooks?q=accounting+books&as_brr=5
A sample of some of the older free ebooks appears below.
Baugh, F. H. 1915. Principles and Practice of Cost Accounting for Accountants, Manufacturers, Mechanical Engineers, Teachers and Students. F. H. Baugh.
Bookkeeper Publishing Co. 1901. Retail Accounting: A text book for the use of book-keepers who keep the accounts of retail business, with special attention to the requirements of general stores, drug stores, bakeries, creameries and ice businesses. The Book-Keeper Publishing Company.
Borsodi, R. 1922. The New Accounting: Bookkeeping without books of original entry by use of a natural system of double entry bookkeeping. Dodd, Mead and Company.
Bunnell, S. H. 1911. Cost-Keeping for Manufacturing Plants. D. Appleton and Company.
Harrison, G. C. 1921. Cost Accounting To Aid Production: A Practical Study of Scientific Cost Accounting. The Engineering Magazine Company.
Hutchinson, J. H. 1914. School Costs and School Accounting. Columbia University.
Johnson, J. F., L. Greendlinger and J. W. Schulze. 1914. Accounting Practice: A comprehensive statement of accounting principles and methods, illustrated by modern forms and problems. Alexander Hamilton Institute.
Kester, R. B. 1917. Accounting Theory and Practice, Volume 1. The Ronald Press Company.
Moxey, E. P. Jr. 1911. Accounting Systems: A description of systems appropriate to different kinds of business. Alexander Hamilton Institute.
Nicholson, J. L. and J. F. D. Rohrbach. 1919. Cost Accounting. Ronald Press Co.
Racine, S. F. 1918. Accounting Principles. The Western Institute of Accountancy, Commerce and Finance.
Scovill, H. T. 1918. Farm Accounting. D. Appleton and Company.
Sikes, C. S. 1917. Railway Accounting, Volume 1. La Salle Extension University.
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These older texts illustrate that our complex world has been complex for a long time. Our tools have changed, but the content and the objectives are largely the same. Now, if I could just find a way to download one of these to PDF or cut and paste useful text ....
These older texts illustrate that our complex world has been complex for a long time. Our tools have changed, but the content and the objectives are largely the same. Now, if I could just find a way to download one of these to PDF or cut and paste useful text ....
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