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Double entry : how the merchants of Venice created modern finance
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Double entry : how the merchants of Venice created modern finance

Author: Jane Gleeson-White
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2012.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
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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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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jane Gleeson-White
ISBN: 9780393088960 0393088960
OCLC Number: 783160450
Description: 294 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Jane Gleeson-White.

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"A timely, topical, readable, and thought-provoking look at the history and legacy of double-entry bookkeeping."--Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed  Read more...
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