The Principles of Modern Bookkeeping
Author: W. R. Hamilton
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 212
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Author: W. R. Hamilton
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: S. Irving Strayer
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Enos Spencer
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Warren Lafayette Starkey
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Published: 1936
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nathaniel Altholz
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Published: 1930
Total Pages: 460
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Aho
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 0791482790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDouble-entry bookkeeping (DEB), modern capitalism's first and foremost calculative technology, was "invented" during the Middle Ages when profit making was morally stigmatized. James Aho examines the problematic of moneymaking and offers an explanatory understanding of the paradoxical coupling of profit seeking and morality by situating DEB in the religious circumstances from which it emerged, specifically the newly instituted sacrament of penance, that is, confession. Confession impacted the consciences of medieval businessmen both through its sacramental form and through its moral teachings. The form of confession produced widespread habits of moral scrupulosity (leading to compulsive record keeping); the content of confession taught that commerce itself was morally suspect. Scrupulous businessmen were thus driven to justify their affairs to church, commune, and themselves. With the aid of DEB, moneymaking was "Christianized" and Christianity was made more amenable to the pursuit of wealth. Although DEB is typically viewed exclusively as a scientifically neutral account of the flow of money through a firm, it remains as it was originally devised, a rhetorical argument.
Author: Jane Gleeson-White
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0393089681
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“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.
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 2162
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Louis Montgomery
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Williams Baker
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 316
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