TY - CHAP AB - Abstract Exchange-priced transactions should be recognized and treated as items of enterprise experience, which should be summarized for later review. This is so because the major objective of accounting technology is to aid men to understand the results of enterprise management’s decisions. This, in turn, is based on compelling concepts that invite certain conclusions and limitations that direct certain exclusions. Intentions, purpose, and objectives lie at the heart of transactions and their nature is an aspect of the logic of accounting actions. VL - 20 SN - 978-1-78635-389-4, 978-1-78635-390-0/1479-3504 DO - 10.1108/S1479-350420160000020036 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-350420160000020036 PY - 2016 Y1 - 2016/01/01 TI - Ideas Motivate Action T2 - A. C. Littleton’s Final Thoughts on Accounting: A Collection of Unpublished Essays T3 - Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 129 EP - 137 Y2 - 2024/04/23 ER -