(Dow), Margaret Levenstein (1998). Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 277 p.). Dow Chemical Company--History; Dow Chemical Company--Accounting; Information resources management; Management information systems.

(DuPont), Editor H. Thomas Johnson (1980). System and Profits, Early Management Accounting at Du Pont and General Motors. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 250 p.). E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company--Accounting; General Motors Corporation--Accounting; Managerial accounting--United States. 

(U. S. Steel), ed. Richard Vangermeersch (1986). Financial Accounting Milestones in the Annual Reports of United States Steel Corporation: The First Seven Decades. (New York, NY: Garland Pub., 257 p.). United States Steel Corporation--Accounting--Histor; Steel industry and trade--Accounting--History; Corporation reports--History; Financial statements--History.

James Aho (2005). Confession and Bookkeeping: The Religious, Moral, and Rhetorical Roots of Modern Accounting. (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 131 p.). Bookkeeping--History; Accounting--Moral and ethical aspects; Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects; Economics--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--History; Christian sociology--Catholic Church--History.

Vivian Beattie, Stella Fearnley, and Richard Brandt; foreword by Sir David Tweedie (2001). Behind Closed Doors: What Company Audit Is Really About. (New York, NY: Palgrave, 309 p.). Professor of Accounting (University of Stirling), Research Fellow in the Department of Accounting and Management Science (University of Portsmouth). Corporations--Auditing.

Mike Bewster (2003). Unaccountable: How the Accounting Profession Forfeited a Public Trust. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 328 p.). Former Communications Director, KPMG. Accounting--Moral and ethical aspects; Public interest; Responsibility.

Abraham J. Briloff (1972). Unaccountable Accounting. (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 365 p.). Accounting--United States--History; Accounting.

--- (1981). The Truth About Corporate Accounting. (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 285 p.). Corporations--Accounting; Corporations--Auditing.

Frank Clarke, Graeme Dean (2007). Indecent Disclosure: Gilding the Corporate Lily. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 274 p.). Emeritus Professor of Accounting (University of Newcastle), Honorary Professor of Accounting (University of Sydney). Business failures; Corporations--Accounting; Corporate debt; Business ethics. 4 themes  in companies' financial disclosures: 1) compliance does not produce financial statements that disclose wealth, financial progress; 2) misleading financial statements more result of compliance with rules with best of intentions, than from intent to mislead; 3) recent corporate governance mechanisms affect appearances, not  malpractice; 4) current group structures incapable of effective regulation.

Arundel Cotter (1980). Fool's Profits. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 174 p. [orig. pub. 1940]). Inventories--Accounting. Notes: Articles which first appeared in Barron's Aug.-Nov. 1939; Reprint of the ed. published by Barron's, New York.

Sidney Davidson, Clyde P. Stickney, Roman L. Weil (1987). Accounting: The Language of Business. (Sun Lakes, AZ: T. Horton, 131 p. [7th ed.]). Professors of Accounting (University of Chicago). Accounting--Terminology; Accounting.

Gadis J. Dillon (1984). The Role of Accounting in the Stock Market Crash of 1929. (Atlanta, GA: Georgia State University, 270 p.). Accounting -- United States -- History; Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.

Robert G. Eccles ... [et al.] (2001). The Value Reporting Revolution: Moving Beyond the Earnings Game. (New York, NY: Wiley, 349 p.). Partners, PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Corporation reports; Financial statements. Provides deeper understanding of how companies create and realize value.

Gary Giroux (2006). Earnings Magic and the Unbalance Sheet: The Search for Financial Reality. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 304 p.). Shelton Professor of Accounting (Texas A&M University). Accounting -- Practices; Accounting -- United States -- History; Financial statements; Financial Analysis. Search for financial reality through maze of potentially misleading earnings and accounting disclosures.

H. Thomas Johnson and Robert S. Kaplan (1987). Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 269 p.). Managerial accounting--History; Managerial accounting--United States--History.

Thomas A. King (2006). More than a Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 242 p.). Treasurer of Progressive Insurance. Accounting--United States--History; Accounting--Standards--United States--History; Accounting--Law and legislation--United States--History. Context and discussion for divisive issues such as taxes, debt, options, and earnings volatility; how over one-hundred years, accounting morphed from tool used by American railroad managers to communicate with absent British investors to enabler of corporate fraud.

Thomas A. Lee & R .H. Parker (1984). The Evolution of Corporate Financial Reporting. (New York, NY: Garland, 307 p.). Corporations--Accounting--History; Financial statements--History. 

ed. and introduction by Thomas A. Lee (1988). The Evolution of Audit Thought and Practice. (New York, NY: Garland Publishing, 315 p.). Auditing-History. Part of Series: "Foundations of Accounting".

Harry T. Magill, Gary John Previts and Thomas R. Robinson (1998). The CPA Profession: Opportunities, Responsibilities, and Services. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 252 p.). Accounting--United States; Accountants--Professional ethics--United States; Accounting--Vocational guidance--United States.

Derek Matthews (2006). The History of Auditing: The Changing Audit Process in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. (New York, NY: Routledge, 184 p.). Reader in Economic and Business History (Cardiff University, UK). Auditing--Great Britain--History. Evolution of the auditing process: leisurely Victorian beginnings, transformation in the 1960s, changes in the 1980s,

Robert Meigs... [et al.] (1996). Accounting: The Basis For Business Decisions. (Boston, MA: Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 1104 p. [10h ed.]). Accounting, Business Decisions. One of McGraw-Hill's best-selling textbooks.

Hans J. Nissen, Peter Damerow, Robert K. Englund; translated by Paul Larsen (1994). Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 169 P.). Sumerian language--Texts--Exhibitions; Economic history--To 500--Exhibitions; Mathematics, Babylonian--Exhibitions.  

ed. R. H. Parker (1980). Bibliographies for Accounting Historians. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 300 p.). Accounting--Bibliography. 

Michael Power (1999). The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 183 p.). Auditing; Responsibility; Management; Organizational effectiveness.

ed. Gary J. Previts (1981). The Development of SEC Accounting. (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 430 p.). Accounting, SEC.

Janet Pryce-Jones & R.H. Parker (1984). Accounting in Scotland: A Historical Bibliography. (New York, NY: Garland, 107 p. [orig. pub. 1976]). Accounting--Scotland--History--Bibliography. Series: Accounting history and the development of a profession.

Brian A. Rutherford (2007). Financial Reporting in UK: A History of the Accounting Standards Committee, 1969-1990. (New York, NY: Routledge, 438 p.). Accounting Standards Committee--History; Accounting--Standards--Great Britain--History.  Big ‘set battles’ between standard setters, preparers of financial statements (price change accounting, goodwill, leasing, foreign currency translation), stand-offs which delayed development,  skirmishes which impeded improving financial reporting.

Daniel C. Snell (1982). Ledgers and Prices--Early Mesopotamian Merchant Accounts (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,, 283 p.). Bookkeeping--History; Accounting--Iraq--History; Merchants--Iraq--History.

John A. Tracy (2004). How To Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers. (New York, NY: Wiley, 216 p. [6th ed.]). Professor of accounting (University of Colorado at Boulder). Financial statements.

eds. Richard Vangermeersch (1986). Financial Accounting Milestones in the Annual Reports of United States Steel Corporation: The First Seven Decades. (New York, NY: Garland Publishing, 257 p.). Financial Accounting, U.S. Steel

Richard Vangermeersch (1979). Financial Reporting Techniques in 20 Industrial Companies since 1861. (Gainesville, FL: University Presses of Florida, 154 p.). Financial Reporting.

Nicolas Veron, Matthieu Autret, and Alfred Galichon; translated by George Holoch (2006). Smoke & Mirrors, Inc.: Accounting for Capitalism. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 240 p.). Research Fellow at Bruegel (Brussels), Independent Consultant on Financial Services; National Expert at the European Commission in Brussels; Ph.D. candidate in economics (Harvard University). Disclosure in accounting; Corporations--Accounting--Corrupt practices; International finance; Capitalism. Manipulation of financial reporting can convert a rotten balance sheet into a picture of robust financial health.

Ed. Peter Walton (1995). European Financial Reporting: A History. (San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 287 p.). Accounting--Europe--History; Accounting--Europe--Law and legislation--History; Financial statements--Europe--History; Corporations--Europe--Accounting--History.

Roman Weil, Patricia O'Brien, Michadel Maher and Clyde Stickney (1995). Accounting: The Language of Business. (Glen Ridge, NJ: Thomas Horton & Daughters, 139 p.). Academics. Accounting, Language.  

Stephen A. Zeff (2000). Henry Rand Hatfield: Humanist, Scholar, and Accounting Educator. (Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 515 p.). Hatfield, Henry Rand, 1866-1945; Accountants--United States--Biography; Accounting--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--History; Accounting--United States--History. Biographical study of the first full-time accounting professor in a US university; first dean of the Chicago business school and the second dean of the Berkeley business school.

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