This article begins by recounting the circumstances that led to the AICPA's decision in 1957 to appoint a special committee to recommend a stronger research program to support the process of establishing accounting principles. It then proceeds to examine in depth the committee's sometimes difficult deliberations that eventually led to a unanimous report, in which it recommended the creation of an Accounting Principles Board and an enlarged accounting research division within the Institute. In the course of the article, the author brings out the strong philosophical differences among several of the Big Eight accounting firms that had been impeding the work of the Committee on Accounting Procedure and that also intruded into the Special Committee's deliberations.
REAL PROPERTY TAXATION: Report of a Special Committee, appointed in pursuance of a Resolution, passed by the Manitoba Economic Conference held in Winnipeg, March 12 and 13, 1924, to consider the question of "The Soundness and Equity of the Real Property Tax, in its present Form of an Annual Tax on Assessed Capital Values." Dated January 15, 1925