Limits of Experience
A. C. Littleton’s Final Thoughts on Accounting: A Collection of Unpublished Essays
ISBN: 978-1-78635-390-0, eISBN: 978-1-78635-389-4
Publication date: 15 October 2016
Abstract
Alternatives to inventory pricing and depreciation expense calculation are examples of actions beyond the limits of the actual experience of an enterprise. They tend to mix expectations (looking forward) with actual experience (looking backward). Both cannot be equally objective. The calculation of insolvency, company mergers, and secret reserves as well as the confusion between values and prices are some of the possible antecedents for the muddling of experience with expectations.
Citation
(2016), "Limits of Experience", A. C. Littleton’s Final Thoughts on Accounting: A Collection of Unpublished Essays (Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought, Vol. 20), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 105-115. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-350420160000020034
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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