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The article presents a review of the history of finance and accounting. Contemporary books published in the 2000s and 2010s by Thomas A. King, Jane Gleeson-White, and Jacob Soll are cited. Trends in the historiography of capitalism and accounting are discussed as well as several major milestones in the published literature since the 15th century.

The author reflects on the use of accounting in response to financial issues such as financial crises and failed reforms and mentions the history of accounting wherein it was used by Italian merchant Francesco Datini to make a moral reckoning with God.

A quiz concerning the history of accounting and accountant society presidents.

The article focuses on accounting research. It explains that there is a gap between what accounting professors at colleges and universities teach and their practices of accounting research. The changes in research methodology during the 1960s are described, including the use of computers, and the focus on mathematical models of research is examined. It is suggested that the criteria for accounting research and the criteria for the research component of faculty performance be evaluated and that the accounting curriculum be expanded to include more varieties of textbooks.

Focuses on the efforts of William Samson, an accounting professor at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama,in stirring up interest in the academy's World Congress of Accounting Historians. The desire to see schools offer more graduate courses in accounting history; How the pleas of Samson are falling on deaf ears outside of Tuscaloosa; The need to fight for respect in the profession.