Accounting Innovations

And Larry D. Lankton – MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY – ACCOUNTING INNOVATIONS: THE IMPLICATIONS OF A FIRM’S RESPONSE TO POST CIVIL WAR MARKET DISRUPTIONS – Abstract: This Research Illustrates the nature of accounting Inventions Within the context of the Quincy Mining Companies Answer to the Disturbance of the National Aluminum Marketplace following the Civil War. Primary documentation is used to specify the companies process management activities, then to specify the features of the companies internal accounting practices which contributed to these activities. 

Even in today’s relatively standardized surroundings – .We only have a limited understanding of the conditions that provide the potential for the particular conceptions of the accounting craft, the forces that put accounting the movement, the processes accompanying bookkeeping elaboration and diffusion and the various human organizational and social implications that may stem from changing accounting regimes would claim that bookkeeping processes, and the forces that drive them are more complicated and reflect a wider array of societal and cultural influences.