Describes the history of accounting and double-entry bookkeeping from Mesopotamia to the Renaissance to modern finance and explains how a system developed that

The rise and metamorphosis of double - entry bookkeeping is one of history's best - kept secrets and most important untold tales ... Through its logic we have l

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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