This volume is dedicated to the life work of Ray Chambers, who was continually seeking ways to stimulate and advance the development of a demonstrably rigorous and serviceable system of accounting. This search for an ideal led Chambers into myriad environments, an aspect of his life exhaustively illustrated in his "Aide Memoire," which forms part of this memorial volume.

The Tangled Web of Price Variation Accounting covers a wide range of topics in the area of price variation - from purchasing power, prices and inflation, to price level variations and serviceability.