Twenty-Five Years of Accounting Responsibility, 1911-1936. Essays and

MAY (George Oliver).

Twenty-Five Years of Accounting Responsibility, 1911-1936. Essays and Discussions. Edited by Bishop Carleton Hunt.

First edition, number 58 of 100 privately printed hand-numbered copies. Two volumes. 8vo. xiii, [1], 368; vii, [1], 376 pp., frontispiece portrait of the author, with tissue guard, to Vol. 1. Original half blue morocco with blue cloth covered boards, spines with five raised bands outlined in gilt, second and fourth panels lettered in gilt, the rest with gilt floral devices, top edge in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed (just a hint of light spotting to edges of text-block, contents otherwise generally clean and partially unopened; spines darkened, corners slightly rubbed, faint mottling to covers, withal a very good set). New York, Price, Waterhouse & Co, 1936.

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MAY (George Oliver).

Twenty-Five Years of Accounting Responsibility, 1911-1936. Essays and Discussions. Edited by Bishop Carleton Hunt.

The rare privately printed first edition of this collection of articles and smaller writings by the distinguished British-American accountant George O. May (1875-1961).

George O. May is best-known for his “ leadership in a joint endeavour between the AICPA and the New York Stock Exchange produced the publication Audits of Corporate Accounts (1934), which discussed a recommended form of auditor’s reports for companies and accounting principles and thus provided the basis for the Exchange requiring listed companies to have annual independent audits. The report was also instrumental in persuading the newly created SEC that the accounting profession should be the authority for accounting principles, rather than the federal government“ (American Accounting Association).

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