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Double entry : how the merchants of Venice created modern finance / Jane Gleeson-White.

By: Gleeson-White, Jane.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2012Edition: 1st American ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: 294 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780393088960 (hbk.); 0393088960 (hbk.).Subject(s): Accounting -- History | Bookkeeping -- History | Bookkeeping -- Italy -- Venice -- History | Finance -- Italy -- Venice -- History | Finance -- History | Capitalism -- HistoryDDC classification: 657.09
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.
Summary: 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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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 657.09 G479 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003136496

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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