Accounting

Defaults: IQ-6, Finance-4, Mathematics (Statistics)-5, or Merchant-5.
Accounting (IQ/Hard) is the skill to keep books of account, to examine the condition of a business, etc.
A successful Accounting roll (requires at least two hours of study, and possibly months to audit a large corporation) can tell you whether financial records are correct, and possibly reveal evidence of forgery, tampering, and similar criminal activity.
It is referenced in: 
* Fantasy (p. 220), where rules are given for using Roman numerals.
* Low-Tech Companion 1 (p. 12) on double-entry bookkeeping and detecting fraud, and (p. 20) on the effect of mathematical development on Accounting.
== Modifiers ==
* Time Spent (p. 346) 
"The Talents (p. 89) of Business Acumen and Mathematical Ability both provide a bonus." (p. 174)
*Business Acumen
*Mathematical Ability
==See Also==
* Merchant
* List of Skills
==References==
*Basic Set (p. 89, 174, 346)
*Fantasy (p. 220)
*Low-Tech Companion 1 (p. 12, 20)
Category:Skills