Double Entry
How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2012.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: 294 pages ; 22 cm
The history and legacy of double-entry bookkeeping.
Contents:
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.
Subjects:
Accounting -- History.
Bookkeeping -- History.
Bookkeeping -- Italy -- Venice -- History.
Finance -- Italy -- Venice -- History.
Finance -- History.
Capitalism -- History.
Accounting -- History.
Bookkeeping -- History.
Bookkeeping -- Italy -- Venice -- History.
Finance -- Italy -- Venice -- History.
Finance -- History.
Capitalism -- History.
ISBN:
9780393088960 (hbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BUSINESS Finance Accounting Gle | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.