“Farm Accounting” is a vintage 1924 guide to running a successful and profitable farm, focusing on account keeping. The management of money is one of the most important factors of farming, and this volume aims to walk the reader through what must be done and avoided to ensure fiscal success. “Farm Accounting” will be of considerable utility to prospective and existing farmers alike, and it not to be missed by collectors of vintage farming literature. Contents include: “Inventory and Financial Statement”, “Financial Accounts”, “Cost Accounting”, “Special Problems and Special Records”, and “Laboratory Work in Cost Accounting”. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on farming.

Chapter 1: the associative production enterprise in the rural sector of the americas. Chapter 2: analysis of administrative problems in the associative agricultural production enterprise.Chapter 3: characterizing the agricultural enterprise. Chapter 4: The role of farm accounting in the agricultural enterprise. Chapter 5: A General organizational framework for studies of associative agricultural production enterprises. Chapter 6: physical standards for planning the associative agricultural production enterprise. Chapter 7: standard for planning theeconomic performance of the agricultural enterprise. Chapter 8: standards for planning enployment on associative production enterprises. Chapter 9: an analysis of specific associative production enterprises inthe Americas. Chapter 10: guidelines for management training in associative agricultural production enterprises.

The purpose of this statement on Farm Bookkeeping and the Federal Income Tax is to help farmers understand some of the problems involved in making adequate summaries of the farm business for federal income-tax returns. This is not a set of directions for setting up a system of farm accounts, nor is it a complete set of instructions for filling out an income-tax blank.

Global in scope, accounting has had its share of great thinkers and practitioners, from Luca Pacioloi, the father of accounting, to R. J. Chambers, W. W. Cooper, Yuji Ijiri, Stephen A. Zeff and other figures. This encyclopedia presents more than 400 entries that focus on such subjects as publications in the field, institutional bodies, accounting and economic concepts, accounting issues, authors in accounting, records, leaders in the profession, accounting in various countries, financial court cases, accounting exams and historical researchers.

The only applied textbook on farm management specifically designed for Australian agricultural students and farmers confronts the complexities of the 1990s wherein farm businesses are forced to adapt to technological changes and new financial pressures.