Ancient Double-entry Bookkeeping
Author | : John Bart Geijsbeek |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Accounting |
ISBN | : |
Soule?'s new science and practice of accounts, containing a full exposition, elucidation, and discussion of the science, practice and details of double entry and single entry book-keeping
Author | : G. Soule |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 785 |
Release | : |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 5872290322 |
Bookkeeping by single and double entry: the theory and practice illustrated by examples. With an essay on decimal fractions and logarithms. Second edition
Author | : Alexander Gordon HENDERSON (Bookkeeper.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
An Inductive and Practical Treatise on Bookkeeping by Single and Double Entry
Author | : Samuel Worcester Crittenden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Bookkeeping |
ISBN | : |
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
Author | : Jane Gleeson-White |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0393089681 |
“Lively history. . . . Show[s] double entry’s role in the creation of the accounting profession, and even of capitalism itself.”—The New Yorker Filled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers of modern finance. At the heart of the story is double-entry bookkeeping: the first system that allowed merchants to actually measure the worth of their businesses. Luca Pacioli—monk, mathematician, alchemist, and friend of Leonardo da Vinci—incorporated Arabic mathematics to formulate a system that could work across all trades and nations. As Jane Gleeson-White reveals, double-entry accounting was nothing short of revolutionary: it fueled the Renaissance, enabled capitalism to flourish, and created the global economy. John Maynard Keynes would use it to calculate GDP, the measure of a nation’s wealth. Yet double-entry accounting has had its failures. With the costs of sudden corporate collapses such as Enron and Lehman Brothers, and its disregard of environmental and human costs, the time may have come to re-create it for the future.
The Science of Double Entry Bookkeeping, Simplified, Arranged, and Methodized
Author | : John Caldwell Colt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Bookkeeping |
ISBN | : |
The Man of Numbers
Author | : Keith Devlin |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2011-11-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1408824574 |
In 1202, a 32-year old Italian finished one of the most influential books of all time, which introduced modern arithmetic to Western Europe. Devised in India in the seventh and eighth centuries and brought to North Africa by Muslim traders, the Hindu-Arabic system helped transform the West into the dominant force in science, technology, and commerce, leaving behind Muslim cultures which had long known it but had failed to see its potential. The young Italian, Leonardo of Pisa (better known today as Fibonacci), had learned the Hindu number system when he traveled to North Africa with his father, a customs agent. The book he created was Liber abbaci, the 'Book of Calculation', and the revolution that followed its publication was enormous. Arithmetic made it possible for ordinary people to buy and sell goods, convert currencies, and keep accurate records of possessions more readily than ever before. Liber abbaci's publication led directly to large-scale international commerce and the scientific revolution of the Renaissance. Yet despite the ubiquity of his discoveries, Leonardo of Pisa remains an enigma. His name is best known today in association with an exercise in Liber abbaci whose solution gives rise to a sequence of numbers - the Fibonacci sequence - used by some to predict the rise and fall of financial markets, and evident in myriad biological structures. In The Man of Numbers, Keith Devlin recreates the life and enduring legacy of an overlooked genius, and in the process makes clear how central numbers and mathematics are to our daily lives.