Talk:Richard Mattessich

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Richard Victor Alvarus Mattessich (born August 9, 1922 in Trieste) is an Austrian/Canadian business economist, and Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of British Columbia, known for introducing the concept of electronic spreadsheets in the field of business accounting in 1961 as well as pioneering analytical and philosophical methods in accounting.

Life and work

Mattessich obtained his degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1940 at the Engineering College, Vienna IV, his MBA in 1944 at the Vienna School of Economics and Business Administration, where in 1945 he also obtained his Dr.rer.pol. in Economics.

After his gradation Mattessich in 1945 started as research associate at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research in Vienna. In 1947 he moved to the Rosenberg Institute of St. Gallen, where he was appointed Instructor of Commerce. In 1952 he moved to Canada and was Department Head of Commerce from 1953 to 1959 at the Mount Allison University. From 1959 to 1967 he was Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of California, Berkeley, and from 1967 to 1987 Professor of Accounting at the University of British Columbia, and since 1988 emeritus professor.

Mattessich was awarded honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Madrid (Complutense) in 1998, from the University of Malaga, Spain in 2006; from the University of Montesquieu in Bordeaux in 2006; and from the University of Graz in Austria in 2008.

Selected publications

• Mattessich, Richard. Accounting and analytical methods: measurement and projection of income and wealth in the micro-and macro-economy. Scholars Book Company, 1977.

Simulation of the Firm Through a budget computer program. Home­wood, Illinois: R.D. Irwin, Inc., 1964, 192 pp. This book anticipated, by al­most twenty years, major elements of such bestselling microcomputer programmes as VISI-CALC, SU­PER-CALC, LOTUS-1-2-3, etc

• Mattessich, Richard. Instrumental reasoning and systems methodology: an epistemology of the applied and social sciences. No. 15. Springer Science & Business Media, 1978.
• Mattessich, Richard. Critique of accounting: examination of the foundations and normative structure of an applied discipline. Praeger Pub Text, 1995.
• Mattessich, Richard. The beginnings of accounting and accounting thought: accounting practice in the Middle East (8000 BC to 2000 BC) and accounting thought in India (300 BC and the Middle Ages). Taylor & Francis, 2000.
• Mattessich, Richard. Two hundred years of accounting research: An International Survey of Personalities, Ideas, and Publications from about 1800 to 2000, Routledge, 2009. (2009)
• Mattessich, Richard, Accounting and philosophy: epistemological explorations in the economic and social sciences, Routledge. 2014.

Articles, a selection

• Mattessich, Richard V. "Towards a General and Axiomatic Foundation of Accountancy – with an Introduction to the Matrix Formulation of Accounting Systems", Accounting Research 8 (4 (October 1957), pp. 328-355, (London, UK., precursor of Accounting and Business Research).
• Mattessich, Richard V. "Budgeting Models and System Simulation," The Accounting Review 36 (July 1961), pp. 384-397.
• Mattessich, Richard V. "Methodological Preconditions and Problems of a General Theory of Accounting", The Accounting Review 47 (July 1972), pp. ADVANCE \U 0.0469-487 (receiving the international Award for Notable Contribution to Account­ing Literature of the Ame­ri­­can Institute of Certified Public Ac­count­ants in Cooperation with the Amer­i­can Accounting Association).

• Mattessich, Richard V. "Fritz Schmidt (1882–1950) and his pioneering work of current value accounting in comparison to Edwards and Bell's theory*." Contemporary Accounting Research 2.2 (1986): 157-178.

• Mattessich, Richard V. "Commentary: Accounting Schism or Synthesis? A Challenge for the Conditional‐Normative Approach*." Canadian Accounting Perspectives 1.2 (2002): 185-216.
• Mattessich, Richard V. "FASB and Social Reality-An Alternate Realist View." Accounting and the Public Interest 9.1 (2009): 39-64.

References

• cv at sauder.ubc.ca. Accessed 07.02.2015

• Mattessich, Richard, and Giuseppe Galassi. "History of the spreadsheet: From matrix accounting to budget simulation and computerization." Accounting and history: a selection of papers presented at the 8th World Congress of Accounting Historians: Madrid-Spain, 19-21 July 2000. Asociación Española de Contabilidad y Administración de Empresas, AECA, 2000.

• Galassi, Giuseppe.and Mattessich, Richard, “Some Observations on the Evolution of the Electronic Spreadsheet – A Fiftieth Anniversary”, (forthcoming 2015) for the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting (American Accounting Association).

• McHaney, R. (2000), “Spreadsheets” in Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History, Volume Two, M-Z, in R. Rojas, editor in chief, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, pp. 728-9.

• Power, Daniel J. "A brief history of spreadsheets." DSSResources. COM, World Wide Web, http://dssresources. com/history/sshistory. html, version 3 (2004): 08-30.

• Jelen, B. (2005), The Spreadsheet at 25—The Invention that Changed the World, Uniontown, OH: Holy Macro and Independent Publishers Group.

External links

Richard Mattessich at sauder.ubc.ca

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1922 births Living people Austrian economists Austrian business theorists Canadian economists Canadian business theorists Vienna University of Technology alumni University of Vienna alumni University of St. Gallen faculty Mount Allison University faculty University of California, Berkeley faculty University of British Columbia faculty People from Trieste

Further comment

Thanks for this suggestion, which has been implemented as much as possible. Some additional remarks:

• Forthcoming publications are not to be used as reference. They are often not even listed in the selected publication section, because Wikipedia articles want to list the most notable publications, not the latest news. Yet they can be added as a courtesy.
• Some rearrangements have been made, also to facilitate further expansion of the article
• Some fact tags are added, where an additional source is required

I might take another look at the article soon, and might expand it some more. -- Mdd (talk) 13:20, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

MDD, I noticed the article just now, too, and i would make at least some small changes, like to be consistent in capitalization of book and article titles, and some minor spelling & sentence-level grammar changes. Hmm, then seeing this about edits being suggested, I'd also sort of review that too if a second opinion would be okay. I'll revisit here after 8-10 hours. --doncram 13:56, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Feel free to do whatever you wish - I'm just passing this on from the email, I'm not going to get involved for (COI/whatever) reasons. Mdann52 (talk) 17:29, 11 March 2015 (UTC)