The Institute of Accounts by Stephen E. Loeb, Paul J. Miranti - 9780415288743

Taylor & Francis

This book looks at the role accounting knowledge play in business and social ordering and what insight the Institute of Accounts experience provides about the professionalization of the US accounting occupation. > \nThis book focuses upon the Institute of Accounts (IA), an organization to which the modern United States accounting profession can trace its roots. The IA was organized in the early 1880s in New York City and, as discussed in this book, attracted a diverse membership that included some of the leading accounting thinkers of the period. The Institute of Accounts describes the association's early development, its usefulness to the needs of bookkeepers and accountants in the late nineteenth century, and its historical importance. > Foreword, Acknowledgments, Section 1 Introduction, Section 2 Origins, goals, membership, and professional characteristics, Section 3 Functionality of the IA and its role in professionalization, Section 4 The structure of accounting knowledge.