Background
Zeff was born in Chicago, where his father ran a small industrial advertising agency.
( This title, first published in 1972, examines five coun...)
This title, first published in 1972, examines five countries that have experience with programs designed to improve the quality of financial reporting. Zeff devotes separate chapters to the historical evolution of the program, and then goes on to compare and analyse the various trends. This book presents an important piece of research to those concerned with the development of accounting principles.
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This book is a biographical study of the first full-time accounting professor in a US university. Henry Rand Hatfield (1866-1945) was the first dean of the Chicago business school and the second dean of the Berkeley business school, and he was long regarded as the "dean of accounting teachers everywhere". His two textbooks, "Modern Accounting" (1909) and "Accounting" (1927), were among the most respected reference works in the first half century, and they and his articles continue to be cited today. His textbooks and carefully crafted articles were veritable annotations on the accounting literature and drew extensively on accounting and legal authorities in the US and overseas. He exemplified a principled approach to accounting debate and discussion, and he skewered sloppy and imprecise terminology and shoddy thinking. He did not propound any grand theories but was instead an astute critic of the literature, a delectable writer, and, above all, a consummate scholar.Hatfield was an authority on early bookkeeping history, and his essay, "An Historical Defense of Bookkeeping", has long been one of the most celebrated articles in the US literature. Professor Basil Yamey has written a commentary expressly for the book on Hatfield as a historian of accounting and bookkeeping. Stephen Zeff began his research in the 1960s, when he was granted access to Hatfield's extensive files of correspondence, notes and papers, and he proceeded to interview, or correspond with, many of Hatfield's former colleagues and students.The author also drew on the archives at the Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and the University of California, as well as the records of the American Accounting Association, of which Hatfield was a founder and President. The book is rich in references to primary sources. Many of Hatfield's unpublished and previously published papers are reproduced in the book, which also contains a complete list of Hatfield's publications, including his more than 50 penetrating book reviews.
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(History of Asset Appreciation: Business Income and Price-...)
History of Asset Appreciation: Business Income and Price-Level Accounting 1918-1935.
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Based on more than 80 interviews and an in-depth examination of primary and secondary resource materials, the authors trace the major developments in company financial reporting from the latter part of the 19th century to recent times. Included are the parliamentary history of major laws, the contents of significant reports by study committees, the annual reports of important companies, commentary in the financial press and in professional journals, the opinions of the Enterprise Chamber, and the work of the Tripartite Study Group and the Council on Annual Reporting. Introductory sections are provided to orientate non-Dutch readers to the Dutch economy, financial market, political system, company organization, and the auditing profession.
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Zeff was born in Chicago, where his father ran a small industrial advertising agency.
He then moved to the University of Michigan, where he received his Master of Business Administration in 1960, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1962.
After his graduation at the Highland Park High School in 1951, he went to the University of Colorado Boulder, where he obtained his Bachelor of Science in 1955 with a major in accountancy, and his Master of Arts in 1957. Recently he received an honorary doctorate in Economics from the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, in Finland. Zeff had started working in his undergraduate years as editor for the Colorado Daily, the student newspaper, where he became managing editor in his senior year.
In 1955 he became an instructor at the University of Colorado Boulder.
At the University of Michigan he taught accounting courses, was assistant of Herb Miller revisioning accounting books, and was research assistant at its Bureau of Industrial Relations. After his graduation in 1961 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Tulane University, and Associate Professor in 1963 and Professor of Accounting in 1966.
In 1978 he moved to the Rice University, where he is Herbert South. Autrey Professor of Accounting since 1979. Over the year Zeff was visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, University of Chicago, Harvard Business School, Northwestern University, and the University of Texas at Austin, and outside the United States in universities in Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands.
(Based on more than 80 interviews and an in-depth examinat...)
( This title, first published in 1972, examines five coun...)
( This title, first published in 1972, examines five coun...)
(This book is a biographical study of the first full-time ...)
(History of Asset Appreciation: Business Income and Price-...)
The only non-British member of the academic panel of the Accounting Standards Board of the United Kingdom
In 2002 he was inducted as the 70th member of Accounting Hall of Fame.