Double entry : how the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world - and how their invention could make or break the planet Jane Gleeson-White.
Material type: TextPublication details: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2011.Description: 294 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
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- 9781743311554
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- 9781743311493
- 1743311494
- 657.209 GLEÂ 22
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Accounting: our first communications technology -- Merchants and mathematics -- Luca Pacioli: from Sansepolcro to celebrity -- Pacioli's landmark bookkeeping treatise of 1494 -- Venetian double entry goes viral -- Double entry morphs: the industrial revolution and the birth of a profession -- Double entry and capitalism; chicken and egg? -- John Maynard Keynes, double entry and the wealth of nations -- The rise and scandalous rise of a profession -- Gross domestic product and how accounting could make or break the planet.
Describes the history of accounting and double-entry bookkeeping from Mesopotamia to the Renaissance to modern finance and explains how a system developed that could work across all trades and nations.
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