Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
ISBN-13:
9780393088960
ISBN-10:
0393088960
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Jane Gleeson-White
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Hardcover
304 pages
Category:
Company Profiles
,
Biography & History
,
Financial
,
Accounting
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ISBN-13:
9780393088960
ISBN-10:
0393088960
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Jane Gleeson-White
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Hardcover
304 pages
Category:
Company Profiles
,
Biography & History
,
Financial
,
Accounting
Summary
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance (ISBN-13: 9780393088960 and ISBN-10: 0393088960), written by authors
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“A timely, topical, readable, and thought-provoking look at the history and legacy of double-entry bookkeeping.”―Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed
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.We would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book
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