Accounting and Science
Subtitle: Natural Inquiry and Commercial Reason (Cambridge Studies in Management)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 28, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521553254
Subjects: Accounting; Science funding & policy; Economics - General; Accounting (General); Science (Specific Aspects); Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Finance; Accounting - General; Business & Economics / Management; Commercial statistics; Management science
First sentence: Luca Pacioli, mathematician and teacher, is often mistakenly credited with the invention of double-entry bookkeeping (Swetz 1987, 24).