Yamashita Katsuji

Yamashita Katsuji ( Japanese 山下 勝 治 , born May 12, 1906 in Kasaoka in Japan , † December 5, 1969 ) was a professor of business administration at the University of Kobe .

biography

Yamashita was born in Okayama Prefecture. He attended the Ōita Commercial College (now Ōita University) and after graduating from 1927 to 1929 was a teacher at the Toyohashi Commercial School in Aichi Prefecture . He then graduated from the Kobe University of Commerce . After completing his studies, he completed a doctoral course with Y. Hirai. From 1934 he was employed as a lecturer and later as a full professor at the Hikone Commercial College (now Shiga University ). In 1944 he went to the Kobe Commercial University as an assistant professor and from 1953 as a full professor.

In 1951, with the development of the income statement , he acquired the status of a doctor, a very rare honor in Japan. In 1969 he was made an honorary member by the Schmalenbach Society .

Works

Yamashita published 28 books, 223 essays, and a host of other works.

• Translation of The Organic Daily Value Balance by Fritz Schmidt into Japanese, Tokyo 1934
• General theory of track record and accounting , 1955

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• Masaatsu Takada Mitteilungen - Professor Yamashita Honorary Member of the Schmalenbach Society , in ZfbF 1969, pp. 375–376
• Keiichi Ichihara , Karl Hax , Mitteilungen - Obituary for three important business economists in Japan , in ZfbF 1971, p. 251

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Yamashita is the family name, Katsuji the first name.