Biogramy polskich myślicieli rachunkowości Elżbieta Burzym Rys biograficzny
Profiles of Polish accounting theorists Elżbieta Burzym

Summary/Abstract: On 7 September, 2013, in Cracow, died prof. dr. hab. Elżbieta Burzym. Polish accounting community lost an outstanding, though modest, scholar, an excellent academic teacher and a noble person. Elżbieta Burzym, nee Kubera, was born on 1 June, 1923, in a large, educated family, in Monasterzyska, (Buczacz district, Tarnopol voivodeship), on the territory of the Second Republic of Poland (after 1945 – part of the USSR, now western Ukraine). Professor Elżbieta Burzym devoted 60 years of her academic and profes-sional career to accounting. She was greatly respected by her colleagues, subordinates and students as a scientific as well as moral authority. The academic community of Cracow University of Economics will remember her as a person of great intellect, character and heart, the creator of the so called Cracow school of accounting of the 20th century. She was an eminent scholar with significant contribution in the field of synthetic definition of the accounting system, cost accounting and its optimisation, financial analysis, integration of prospective and retrospective measurements, and social aspects of modern ac-counting. She was a model of academic teacher, thesis supervisor and reviewer, who set high standards to be followed by the next generations.

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