Double entry : how the merchants of Venice created modern finance

Summary: Describes the history of accounting and double-entry bookkeeping from Mesopotamia to the Renaissance to modern finance and explains how a system developed that could work across all trades and nations.

Record details

ISBN: 9780393088960 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0393088960 (hbk.)
Physical Description: print
294 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-282) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Accounting: our first communications technology -- Merchants and mathematics -- Luca Pacioli: from Sansepolcro to celebrity -- Pacioli's landmark bookkeeping treatise of 1494 -- Venetian double entry goes viral -- Double entry morphs: the industrial revolution and the birth of a profession -- Double entry and capitalism; chicken and egg? -- John Maynard Keynes, double entry and the wealth of nations -- The rise and scandalous rise of a profession -- Gross domestic product and how accounting could make or break the planet.