Index

Kevin Christopher Carduff (Case Western Reserve University, USA)

Corporate Reporting: From Stewardship to Contract, the Annual Reports of the United States Steel Corporation 1902–2006

ISBN: 978-1-80382-762-9, eISBN: 978-1-80382-761-2

ISSN: 1479-3504

Publication date: 28 October 2022

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Carduff, K.C. (2022), "Index", Previts, G.J. (Ed.) Corporate Reporting: From Stewardship to Contract, the Annual Reports of the United States Steel Corporation 1902–2006 (Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought, Vol. 26), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 97-102. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-350420220000026006

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Copyright © 2022 Gary J. Previts


INDEX

Abbott, P
, 19

Abrahamson, Eric
, 21

Accelerated depreciation
, 48, 50

Accounting Bible
, 6

Accounting principles
, 6, 29, 50

Accounting Procedure Committee 51

Activity
, 9–10, 15, 17, 20, 23, 28, 38, 45, 47, 53, 65, 67, 74, 91

Adam Smith
, 6

Al-Kazemi, Saad
, 75

Allen, David
, 2, 4, 6, 15, 61

American Association of Public Accountants
, 7

American Institute of Accountants (AIA)
, 6

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
, 7–8, 21

American Steel and Wire
, 4

Annual Replacement Index
, 26

Annual reports
, 1–3, 5, 7–11, 13, 15, 17, 20–26, 29, 31, 33–35, 37–38, 42–43, 45–47, 50, 52–56, 58–59, 61–66, 68–70, 72–74, 79, 81–84, 87–88, 90–92

Anti-trust
, 16

APB Statement
, 4, 29

Apelt, Brian
, 15, 39, 41, 45, 55, 84–85, 88

Archambault, Jeffrey and Marie
, 24

Assets
, 3–4, 20, 26, 30, 35, 38, 40, 50–51, 64, 68, 70, 85

Audit report
, 39

Auditing standards
, 6

Average common shares
, 90

Balance sheet
, 4, 6–7, 14, 24, 28–30, 37–38, 40, 44, 51, 85, 87, 91

Balance Sheet Audits
, 6

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O)
, 9, 22

Bankrupt
, 3, 17

Basic Concepts and Accounting Principles Underlying Financial Statements of Business Enterprises
, 29

Bedford, Norton
, 18, 28, 31

Berelson, Bernard
, 8, 18

Berle and Means
, 6–7

Best practices
, 5, 8, 11, 20, 23, 46

Blough, Roger
, 45

Board of Directors
, 6, 10, 29, 36, 42, 45, 47, 58

Boilerplate
, 58

Book value
, 4, 26–27

Bricker, Robert
, 8, 21–22, 34, 65

Brown, Richard
, 21

Business Reporting Research Project
, 22

Byrne, Barbara
, 75

Capital expenditures
, 37–38

Capital market research
, 8

Capital sourcing
, 7

Capital structure
, 7, 38–39, 82

Capitalization
, 1, 3–4, 16, 25, 54, 84

Carnegie, Andrew
, 4, 39, 84

Cash flow statement
, 36, 48–49, 92

CEO
, 14, 17, 22, 72, 76–77

Certainty
, 10, 23, 65, 74

CFO
, 29, 72, 76–77

Chairman of the Board
, 36, 42, 45, 58

Chairman’s letter
, 1, 23, 37, 39, 46–47, 52, 56, 65–67, 72–74, 79, 88

Charts
, 5, 20, 38, 42–43, 46–47, 52–53, 55–56, 58, 62, 64–65, 74, 83, 85, 87–88

Chatfield, Michael
, 9

Chernow, Ron
, 16, 67–68

Claire, Richard
, 1, 9, 25–26, 28, 31, 33, 35, 44, 50–51, 61, 67

Collective bargain
, 44

Commercial and Financial Chronicle
, 3, 21

Common stock
, 4, 7, 26, 49, 56, 59, 68–69, 78, 88

Commonality
, 10, 23, 65, 74

Communication theory
, 18, 31

Comparable
, 8, 38

Comparative Fit Index
, 74

Compliance
, 7, 43, 59, 89

Concentration of ownership
, 67–68

Conceptual Framework
, 30

Conglomerate
, 4, 14, 54–55, 57, 89

Conservatism
, 24

Consistent
, 8, 27, 39, 50, 56, 58, 66, 82, 85, 87–88

Consolidated financial statements
, 1, 15

Consultants
, 43–45

Content analysis
, 1–3, 8–11, 13, 17–21, 23–25, 27–28, 31, 33–37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61–63, 65–66, 73–74, 78–79, 81, 91

Contract model
, 30, 89–90

Contract reporting
, 90

Corey, Lewis
, 16

Corporate reporting
, 1–4, 6, 8, 10, 13–14, 16–18, 20, 22, 24–26, 28, 30, 33–34, 36, 38, 40–42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54–56, 58–59, 61–62, 64, 66, 68–70, 72–74, 76, 78, 81–82, 84, 86, 88–92

Corporate reports
, 4–6, 8, 10, 19, 26, 46–47

Corporation Finance
, 25

Corry, Richard
, 55

Cotter, Arundel
, 14, 17

Creditors
, 6

Data reliability
, 18

Debt to assets
, 70

DeCoster, Don
, 41

Delhi Gas Pipeline Corporation
, 92

DeMond, C. W.
, 6, 15

Dependent variable
, 2, 62, 64–65

Depreciation
, 5–6, 20, 26, 37–38, 40, 48, 50–51

Depression
, 25, 35, 42–43, 45, 47, 58, 69–70, 85–87

Descriptive Statistics
, 34, 36, 38, 42–43, 46, 52, 55, 58, 73

Dickinson, Arthur Lowes
, 1, 5–7, 14–15, 39, 41

DICTION
, 2, 9–10, 23–24, 27, 61, 65–66, 73–74, 92

Direct method cash flow
, 48–49, 92

Disclosure
, 1–2, 8–11, 13, 15, 20–25, 27, 31, 33–36, 39, 41, 50, 54–55, 58–59, 61–62, 64–67, 72–74, 78–79, 82–85, 89–92

Discretionary disclosures
, 1–2

Display
, 1–2, 10, 33, 38, 58, 62, 64, 68–70, 72–75, 78–79, 82, 84–89, 91

Dividends 3–4
, 20, 48–49, 87–88

Double taxation
, 48–49

DuPont
, 38

Earning potential
, 27, 40, 51

Earning power
, 3–4, 7, 39, 85

Earnings per share
, 26

Earnings potential
, 38, 51

Economies of scale
, 4, 16

EDGAR
, 9

Edwards, J. R.
, 2, 62

Englander, Ernest
, 6, 30, 82–83

Entity Theory
, 28

Environmental costs
, 54

Evolution Years
, 35, 52, 54, 56, 59, 66, 87

External financial reporting
, 3

Fairless, Benjamin
, 45

Federal government
, 3, 16, 26, 35, 47, 50–51, 58, 87

Federal Reserve
, 6

Federal Trade Commission
, 6

Fiduciary
, 6–7, 30, 82

Finance Committee
, 5, 29, 40, 42, 45, 47, 58, 72

Financial analysts
, 44–47, 50

Financial Executives Research Foundation
, 22, 34

Financial Highlights
, 46

Financial performance
, 2, 7, 10, 22, 29, 39, 48, 53, 55, 57–58, 64, 84–85, 88–89

Financial Policy in a Changing Economy
, 29

Financial reporting
, 1, 3, 5–8, 11, 13, 15, 20–24, 26, 28–31, 36, 41–42, 45, 52, 54–55, 57, 59, 61, 81, 86, 88–92

Financial statements
, 1, 6, 9, 14–15, 21–22, 25, 28–29, 37–38, 40, 46–47, 51, 53, 56, 62, 81–83, 85, 91

Finney, Harry
, 41

Fisher, Douglas
, 15

Fixed asset
, 7

Flesher, Dale
, 24

Fogarty, Tim
, 2, 9, 22, 24, 34, 66, 73

Ford, Bacon & Davis
, 44

Foreign aid
, 49

Form 10-K
, 36, 53, 55–56, 59, 82

Free trade
, 49

Fund Theory
, 28

Future earnings
, 4

GAAP
, 22–23

Gary, Elbert
, 1, 4, 13–16, 33, 35–39, 41–42, 44–45, 47, 51, 57–58, 61, 81, 83–87

Gary Rules
, 41, 85

Gary Years
, 35–36, 38, 41, 58, 84, 86

General Motors
, 20, 38

Goldsmith, Raymond
, 68

Goodness-of-fit
, 74–75, 78

Goodwill
, 6, 14

Gordon, Robert
, 3

Grady, Paul
, 28–29, 51

Graphical images
, 34, 38, 42–43, 45–46, 52, 55, 65, 89

Graphics
, 2, 34–35, 43, 47, 52–55, 58, 64, 66, 86, 88

Hartman, William
, 89

Hawkins, David
, 20

Hershberger, Scott
, 75

Historical cost
, 4–5, 26

Historical events
, 72

Holmes (nee Reed), Sarah
, 1, 61

Holsti, Ole
, 18

Horngren, Charles
, 44–47, 50

Hutajulu, Sabam
, 2, 9, 24, 62, 72–73

Hyland, Ken
, 22

Hypotheses
, 11, 31, 59, 61–62, 67–70, 72–74, 78, 81

Icahn, Carl
, 55, 88

Ideology
, 2–3, 5–8, 13, 26, 28, 30–31, 59, 82–84, 86, 91–92

Illinois Central Railroad
, 24

Income smoothing
, 24

Income statement
, 7, 24, 29, 38, 40, 44, 51, 64, 85, 87

Income taxes
, 48

Independent Auditor’s Report
, 47, 50, 56

Independent variable
, 67–70, 72

Indexicals
, 19, 31

Individual investors
, 7–8, 68, 85, 88

Industrial policy
, 48

Inflation
, 5, 48–50

Information needs
, 7, 90

Inglis, John
, 5, 51

Institutional investors
, 7, 53–54, 56–57, 68, 88–89

Institutional ownership
, 43, 46, 52, 55–56, 58–59, 73, 78–79, 88

Institutional-Entity Approach
, 28

International competition
, 49

Inventories
, 37–38, 50

Inventory
, 5, 40, 50, 62

Investigation
, 16, 24, 44, 83

Investment tax credit
, 92

Investor horizons
, 90

Investors
, 6–9, 22, 24, 26–28, 47, 49, 53–57, 68, 85, 88–90

Invisible hand
, 6

Iron Age
, 3

Jenkins Committee
, 8, 21–23

Johns-Manville
, 45

Jones, Thomas
, 9, 27, 72

Journal of Accountancy
, 6, 21

Journal of Accounting Research
, 30

Kaufman, Allen
, 6, 30, 82–83

Knox, Philander
, 39

Krippendorff, Klaus
, 18, 31

Labor
, 15–17, 19, 23, 35, 44–45, 47–49, 51–52, 58, 87

Labor costs
, 48–49, 51–52

Labor Unions
, 35, 47, 51, 58, 87

Last-in, first-out
, 5, 50

Letter to the shareholders
, 21, 27, 37, 39

Leverage
, 2, 67, 69–70, 72–73

Liabilities
, 3, 37, 91

LIFO
, 50

Liquidity
, 7

Longitudinal
, 1–2, 13, 25, 61–62, 78, 91

Lough, William
, 4, 25

LTV Steel Corporation
, 17

Management
, 2, 4–7, 9–10, 14–15, 17, 20–22, 24–30, 34–35, 43–45, 47–48, 50, 53, 56–58, 65–67, 69–70, 72–73, 79, 82, 84–86, 88–90

Management’s Discussion & Analysis
, 9, 27, 35, 56

Management’s reports
, 2

Managerial ideology
, 2–3, 5–8, 13, 28, 30–31, 59, 82, 84, 86, 91–92

Mandated reporting
, 59

Marathon Oil
, 53, 58

Marcoulides, George
, 75

May, George O.
, 1, 16

McCraw, Thomas
, 2, 4, 6, 15, 61

MD&A
, 9, 27, 36, 52–54, 74, 88–89

Means
, 6–7, 61, 82, 91

Metadiscourse
, 22

Methodology
, 2, 8–9, 13, 17–19, 21, 27, 34, 61, 67, 73, 79

Monopoly
, 85

Morgan, J. P.
, 3–4, 7, 14–17, 39, 41–43, 68, 85

Murphy, George
, 2, 20, 62

NAM
, 5, 8, 20, 45–47, 51, 57–59, 65, 86–87

National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
, 5, 20, 45, 86

National Biscuit Company
, 38

Neimark, Marilyn
, 20–21

Net Asset Ratio
, 26

New York Stock Exchange
, 28

Nikolychuck, L.
, 19

Non-financial information
, 21, 64–66

Notes to the financial statements
, 46–47, 53

O’Connell, Vincent
, 30

Olds, Irving
, 45

Optimism
, 10, 23, 65, 74

Orientation postulate
, 7, 28–29, 31, 87

Overpaying
, 4

Paton, William
, 28

Patton, Thomas
, 17

Payroll
, 5, 37, 44

Pension plan
, 8

Photographs
, 35, 38, 42, 45–47, 53, 56, 59, 65, 79, 87, 89

Positive accounting
, 8

Pot of Gold Fallacy
, 92

Preferred stock
, 7, 37

Present-mindedness
, 21, 36, 83, 91

President’s Letter
, 10, 13, 20, 38, 43, 52–53, 57–59, 65, 85–87

President’s/Chairman’s letter
, 1, 47, 56, 67, 74, 88

Previts, Gary
, 1, 8–9, 13, 21–22, 24, 33–34, 61, 65, 81

Price controls
, 48, 51

Price Waterhouse
, 5–6, 14, 39, 50

Principles and Practices of Bookkeeping
, 9

Productivity
, 15, 17, 38, 40, 52, 62

Professional management
, 6, 30

Profit margin
, 68

Profit (s)
, 1, 4, 14, 16, 20, 25, 37, 39–41, 48–49, 68–70, 75, 78, 87

Profitability
, 25, 67–70, 73

Proprietary
, 6–7, 9, 28–29, 45, 61, 89–90

ProQuest
, 10, 92

Prospectus
, 25, 43

Protectionist
, 49

Public policy
, 51, 58

Public relations
, 14, 17, 35–36, 52, 55, 58

Quarterly reporting
, 6

Railroad (s)
, 3–4, 9, 22, 24, 37–39, 46

Rationalization
, 4, 44

Readability
, 2, 9, 19, 73

Real earnings
, 48

Realism
, 10, 23, 65, 74

Reinvesting
, 49

Reorganizations
, 4

Replacement cost
, 3–5, 26, 50

Republic Steel
, 17

Residual Equity Approach
, 28

Return on assets
, 68

Roderick, David
, 88

Roosevelt, Theodore
, 16, 39

Root Mean Square Error of Approximation
, 74

Roseberry
, 19

Rosen, L.
, 41

Rosengren, Karl Erik
, 18

Samson, William
, 9, 22, 24

Schwab, Charles
, 4, 14, 16, 25, 41

Scientific American
, 4, 15

Scobie, John
, 6

Securities Act
, 20

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
, 9, 22–23, 36, 43, 53, 55–56, 59, 82, 88–89

Segment information
, 53–54

Segments
, 52, 54, 91

Shareholders
, 2–3, 6–7, 21, 27, 29, 36–39, 41–42, 48–50, 52, 57–59, 64, 68, 70, 81–82, 84–91

Sherwin Williams
, 38

Sivakumar, Kumar
, 21, 24

Smith, Malcolm
, 23, 29

Social responsibility
, 25, 30, 48

Sources of capital
, 82

Stakeholders
, 5, 20, 29, 85

Standard Oil
, 38

Stanley Commission
, 16

Statement of change in (consolidated) financial position
, 53

Statement of working capital
, 38, 40, 85

Staubus, George
, 3–4, 16, 28

Steel prices
, 54

Stewardship
, 1, 5, 7, 13, 26, 28–30, 33, 41–42, 45, 50–51, 54, 57, 61, 81–82, 84–86, 89–90

Stock
, 3–4, 6–7, 14, 16, 20–21, 23, 25–28, 37, 39–40, 43, 46, 49, 55–59, 68–69, 78–79, 87–89

Stock promotion
, 25

Structured equation modeling
, 61

Summary of Financial Operations
, 37, 40–41, 53

Sydserff, Robin
, 2, 9, 19, 66, 73

Taffler, Richard
, 23

Tangible assets
, 3

Tarbell, Ida
, 15–16

Taxes
, 5, 46–48, 51, 91–92

Taylor, Myron
, 42–45, 58, 70, 85–86

Texture index
, 9, 19

The Accounting Review
, 30

Times interest earned
, 70

Tone
, 1–2, 10, 13, 23, 27, 33, 62, 65–70, 72–75, 78–79, 82, 84–89, 91–92

Transition Years
, 35, 42–43, 45, 58, 85

Transitivity index
, 2, 9, 23, 73

Trust
, 16, 39, 82, 84–85

Trustee
, 6

Tucker Lewis Index
, 74

Tyson, Robert
, 35, 45–52, 54, 58, 66, 69, 83, 86–88

Understandability
, 51

Understandable
, 45, 47

Uniform Accounts
, 6

USX 26
, 54–57, 59, 88–89

Valuation
, 3–4, 7, 25–26, 50

Value drivers
, 23

Valuing
, 7

Vangermeersch, Richard
, 1–2, 7–8, 10, 26, 28, 31, 33, 35, 40, 44, 51, 61–62, 67

Variables
, 1–2, 10, 19, 23, 61–62, 65–68, 72–74, 79, 81, 91–92

Vatter, William
, 28

Visual display
, 2, 10, 62

Visual information
, 46, 58, 64–65

Volatility
, 69

Voorhees, Enders
, 5–6, 29, 35, 45–48, 51, 54, 58, 66, 69, 83, 86–88

Voorhees/Tyson Years
, 35, 45–46, 51, 86

Wage costs
, 49

Wage gap
, 49

War
, 5, 7, 21, 45, 48, 50, 58, 70, 72, 77, 83, 87

Warren, Kenneth
, 15, 17

Watered stock
, 3–4, 6, 25, 39

Watts, Ross
, 1, 3, 61, 81, 92

Waymire, Gregory
, 21, 24

Weber, R. P.
, 19

Weetman, Pauline
, 2, 9, 19, 23, 66, 73

Wilgus, Horace
, 14

Working capital
, 38, 40, 53–54, 58, 85

World Congress of Accountants
, 6, 14

World War
, 5, 7, 21, 45, 50

Wrap-around
, 36, 55, 57, 59, 82, 89

Year in Review
, 53

Zeff, Stephen
, 7, 28–29, 87