Accounting skills - the skill to look at numbers, detect patterns, and derive meaning.
Accounting is a true international language, reaching across industries, countries, and time.
In fact, the origins of modern accounting are in the 14th century. The scope of these ventures, and potential profits, attracted investors who purchased shares in them. These investors then required an accurate, reliable, objective way to keep track of the associated expenses and proceeds, and therefore calculate the profits of a successful project - or the losses of a failed one. By the 18th century accounting had gained the status of a profession, and by the 19th century, an era of greatly expanding industrialization, regulations were developed to control the chartering of accountants in both Europe and the United States. A debit is a debit and a credit is a credit in every business, in every company, in every organization, in every household.