Help on Software Accounting
¤ The AICPA has released technical Qs&As relating to SOP
97-2, Software Revenue Recognition . This new material will
be posted at www.aicpa.org/members/div/
acctstd/index.htm in the near future and will be included in a
future edition of the Institutes Technical Practice Aids .
Distinguished Title Returns
¤ Gary John Previts and Barbara Dubis Merino have written a new
edition of their 1979 book, A History of Accountancy in the United
States , published by the Ohio State University Press. Previts,
a professor of accountancy at the Weatherhead School of Management,
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, is a former member of the
AICPA board of directors. Merino is Horace Brock Professor of
Accounting and Regents Professor at the University of North Texas,
Denton, Texas.