An Accounting Thesaurus
Subtitle: 500 Years of Accounting
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: November 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1100
ISBN-13: 9780080425733
Subjects: Accounting; Reference works; General; Accounting (General); Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Subject headings; Quotations, maxims, etc; Accounting - General; Reference; Business & Economics / Accounting / General
First sentence: The first appearance of the double entry system of accounting in Europe coincided with the introduction of algebra during the early 13th century . . . mathematicians . . . may well have developed the concept of double entry accounting which, after all, is based on an equation.