An edition of Double entry
(2011)
Double entry
how the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world : and how their invention could make or break the planet
by Jane Gleeson-White
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A fascinating exploration of how a simple system used to measure and record wealth spawned a cultural revolution. Prepare to have your idea of accounting changed forever.
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Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World - and How Their Invention Could Make or Break the Planet
2013, Allen & Unwin
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Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
2013, Allen & Unwin
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Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
2013, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
2012, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Double entry: how the merchants of Venice created modern finance
2012, W.W. Norton & Co.
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Double entry: how the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world : and how their invention could make or break the planet
2011, Allen & Unwin
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Table of Contents
Preface: Bobby Kennedy and the wealth of nations and corporations
1. Accounting: our first communications technology
2. Merchants and mathematics
3. Luca Pacioli: from Sansepolcro to celebrity
4. Pacioli's landmark bookkeeping treatise of 1494
5. Venetian double entry goes viral
6. Double entry morphs: the industrial revolution and the birth of a profession
7. Double entry and capitalism
chicken and egg?
8. John Maynard Keynes, double entry and the wealth of nations
9. The rise and scandalous rise of a profession
10. Gross Domestic Product and how accounting could make or break the planet.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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