Reckoning
Subtitle: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations
Publisher: PublicAffairs; Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780465031528
Description: An award-winning historian presents a wide-ranging history of accounting, discussing how basic auditing and double-entry bookkeeping have shaped kingdoms and empires as well as how misuse of this system caused the 1929 Crash and the 2008 financial crisis.