TY - CHAP AB - Abstract Techniques are actions. Reasons for actions tell of objectives, such as the need men have to review the results of prior decisions. Convincing support for an orderly methodology can be sought in the orderly structure of accounting ideology, and a basis for constructive criticism lies in clear knowledge of how things are in the present. This ability to learn by experience rests on knowledge of prior experience, and knowledge means that those prior events are understood. VL - 20 SN - 978-1-78635-389-4, 978-1-78635-390-0/1479-3504 DO - 10.1108/S1479-350420160000020049 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-350420160000020049 PY - 2016 Y1 - 2016/01/01 TI - Relation of Theory and Practice T2 - A. C. Littleton’s Final Thoughts on Accounting: A Collection of Unpublished Essays T3 - Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 251 EP - 258 Y2 - 2024/09/19 ER -