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Fesmire, Walker Eugene, 1929-

Publication Date

Spring 1982

Abstract

Since the mid-1960's, inflation has been exacting a heavy toll from American business and the American Public. During this period, the Accounting profession has studied the problem of price-level changes and has issued many pronouncements upon the subject. Thus, the public assumes that the theory of handling price-level changes is a recent development. This is an incorrect view as accounting theorists were concerned with and were writing about the problem as far back as 1920. One of these early individuals, who considered price-level accounting in depth, was Henry Sweeney. This article will present a brief biographical sketch of Sweeney encompassing the circumstances which led to his interest in stabilized accounting and will trace his professional activities related to stabilized accounting.

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