Double entry
Subtitle: how the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world : and how their invention could make or break the planet
By: Jane Gleeson-White
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Crows Nest, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781741757552; 9781743311554
Subjects: Bookkeeping; History; Capitalism
Description: A fascinating exploration of how a simple system used to measure and record wealth spawned a cultural revolution. Prepare to have your idea of accounting changed forever.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Bobby Kennedy and the wealth of nations and corporations; title: 1. Accounting: our first communications technology; title: 2. Merchants and mathematics; title: 3. Luca Pacioli: from Sansepolcro to celebrity; title: 4. Pacioli's landmark bookkeeping treatise of 1494; title: 5. Venetian double entry goes viral; title: 6. Double entry morphs: the industrial revolution and the birth of a profession; title: 7. Double entry and capitalism; title: chicken and egg?; title: 8. John Maynard Keynes, double entry and the wealth of nations; title: 9. The rise and scandalous rise of a profession; title: 10. Gross Domestic Product and how accounting could make or break the planet.