Double entry
Subtitle: how the merchants of Venice created modern finance
By: Jane Gleeson-White
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780393088960
Subjects: Accounting; History; Bookkeeping; Finance; Capitalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Accounting: our first communications technology; title: Merchants and mathematics; title: Luca Pacioli: from Sansepolcro to celebrity; title: Pacioli's landmark bookkeeping treatise of 1494; title: Venetian double entry goes viral; title: Double entry morphs: the industrial revolution and the birth of a profession; title: Double entry and capitalism; chicken and egg?; title: John Maynard Keynes, double entry and the wealth of nations; title: The rise and scandalous rise of a profession; title: Gross domestic product and how accounting could make or break the planet.