A day in the life of a scientific foundation strategic leader

Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Pain
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Foundation ◽  
Strategic Leader

The Strategic Leader and Despair.

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas S. McLeroy
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Leader

THE SCIENCE OF ACCOUNTS: BOOKKEEPING ROOTED IN THE IDEAL OF SCIENCE

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith P. McMillan
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Professional Organization ◽  
Social Legitimacy ◽  
Scientific Foundation ◽  
The Ideal

This paper presents the discourse of the “science of accounts” as it developed in 19th century U.S. accounting literature. The paper initially emphasizes the meaning which the term “science of accounts” had during this period. In addition, it presents the contemporary belief that this science helped reveal the essential economic ontology, which bookkeeping makes visible. Second, the paper analyzes how this rational institutional myth became institutionalized within the emerging profession's technical journals and its professional organization, the Institute of Accounts. Through reliance on this scientific foundation, the newly emerging profession could gain greater social legitimacy, leading to the first CPA law in 1896.

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