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The Accounting Historians NotebookVolume 21Number 1 April 1998 Article 101998Comment on accounting and liberal artsGary P. SpraakmanFollow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aah_notebookPart of the Accounting Commons, and the Taxation CommonsThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Archival Digital Accounting Collection at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion inThe Accounting Historians Notebook by an authorized editor of eGrove. For more information, please contact memanuel@olemiss.edu.Recommended CitationSpraakman, Gary P. (1998) "Comment on accounting and liberal arts," The Accounting Historians Notebook: Vol. 21 : No. 1 , Article 10.Available at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aah_notebook/vol21/iss1/10U.S. ACCOUNTING HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY CALL FOR PAPERS Critical and traditionalist historians have written extensively on U.S. accounting themes and topics during the past quarter century. It is in an effort to enrich and expand this out-pouring that a special issue of Accounting, Business & Financial History will be dedicated. Papers are invited from authors of all nationalities, although topics should focus either specif-ically on U.S. developments or on comparative studies between the U.S. and other countries. The following listing of suggested subject areas is not intended to be all-inclusive. • critical interpretations/reevaluations of U.S. accounting events/practices • professionalization movements and institutions • findings from research into U.S. business records • biographies of figures in U.S. accounting history • gender studies on U.S. accounting practice • the development of ethical standards in the U.S. • distinctive aspects of U.S. accounting theory and methodology • standard-setting processes • themes from U.S. accounting education • comparative studies, U.S. and abroad • profession-state interfaces in the U.S. • the role of technology in U.S. accounting history • funding issues in U.S. accounting historiography • paradigmatic themes in U.S. accounting historiography This special issue will be co-edited by Richard K. Fleischman and Thomas N. Tyson. Anticipated publication date is Spring, 2000. Submissions should be made by March 31, 1999 to: Thomas N. Tyson, Department of Accounting, St. John Fisher College, 3690 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618, U.S.A. A COMMENT ON ACCOUNTING AND LIBERAL ARTS by Gary Spraakman, York University A discussion of accounting and liberal arts at the 1997 Research Conference in Richmond reminded me of Mepham's (M. J. Mepham, Accounting in Eighteenth Century Scotland, Garland, 1988) comments regard-ing John Mair's book published in 1736. Mepham quotes on page 130 that from Mair: The theory of this art or science is beautiful and curious, very fit for improving the minds of youth, exercising their wit and invention, and disposing them to close and accurate way of thinking. On this account several gentlemen, and after having acquainted with it themselves, have been induced, from the satisfaction and entertain-ment they found, to recommend it to others, as a valuable piece of human literature, proper to be studied and understood by everyone who pretends to liberal education. Mair appears to have been recommend-ing accounting as a liberal arts subject. Perhaps, we as accounting educators are being too modest in just asking that our stu-dents take some liberal arts courses. Should we be asking for accounting to be placed in the liberal arts curriculum? The Accounting Historians Notebook, April, 1998 23 1Spraakman: Comment on accounting and liberal artsPublished by eGrove, 1998

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