TY - BOOK AU - Gleeson-White,Jane AU - Gleeson-White, Jane TI - Double entry: how the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world - and how their invention could make or break the planet SN - 9781743311554 U1 - 657.209 GLE 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Crows Nest, N.S.W. PB - Allen & Unwin KW - Pacioli, Luca KW - Bookkeeping KW - History KW - fast KW - Capitalism KW - gnd KW - Capitalism - History - Finance N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/68991184X.pdf UR - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=serviceetdoc_library=BVB01etdoc_number=025875233etline_number=0001etfunc_code=DB_RECORDSetservice_type=MEDIA UR - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=025875233&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA ER -