Double entry

how the merchants of Venice created modern finance

Double entry

how the merchants of Venice created modern finance
Jane Gleeson-White
Book - 2012

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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37413313976971 Available Non-fiction 657.09 GLEESON
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gleeson-White, Jane
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2012.
Edition:1st American ed.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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