St. Louis

Since 2004 marks the 100^th anniversary of the first International Congress of Accountants in St. Louis, a major theme of the 10^th World Congress of Accounting Historians is scholarship on the sixteen International Congresses of Accountants, the nine International Congresses of Accounting Educators, and the nine preceding World Congresses of Accounting Historians.  There is a need to increase the relatively limited scholarship about each of these congresses.  The dates and sites of these previous congresses are:

International Congresses of Accountants

World Congresses of Accounting Historians

1904    St. Louis	1972  Sydney	1970        Brussels
1926    Amsterdam	1977  Munich	1976        Atlanta
1929    New York	1982  Mexico City	1980        London
1933    London	1987  Tokyo	1984        Pisa
1938    Berlin	1992  Washington	1988        Sydney
1952    London	1997  Paris	1992        Kyoto
1957    Amsterdam	2002  Hong Kong	1996        Kingston
1962    New York		2000        Madrid
1967    Paris		2002        Melbourne

Oxford

Because the library at the University of Mississippi is a treasure trove of accounting archival records, one of the Congress themes will be to emphasize archival-based research.  Such research can be based on any type of organization.  Examples include analyses of accounting innovations, diffusion of accounting innovations, impact of the environment (such as war, depression, or competition) on accounting, impact of accounting on the environment, and examples of company histories based on accounting records.