Peter Duff: Accountant and educator

Citation
R. Givens, Horace, Peter Duff: Accountant and educator, Accounting historians journal , 7(1), 1980, pp. 35-42
ISSN journal
01484184
Volume
7
Issue
1
Year of publication
1980
Pages
35 - 42
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
Peter Duff, an accountant in Pittsburgh, was the author of several books on accounting and also the founder of a school for bookkeepers and accountants in 1840. The Duff school is significant because of its early beginnings and the fact that the school still operates today, having outlived many of its noted competitors