Double entry : how the merchants of Venice created modern finance
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Double entry : how the merchants of Venice created modern finance
AUTHOR:
Gleeson-White, Jane
ISBN:
9780393346596
EDITION:
1st American ed.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2013
PHYSICAL_DESC:
294 p. ; 21 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
Includes bibliographical references ( p.271-282) and index.
First published in Australia by Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd, 2011 under the title "Double entry : how the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world--and how their invention could make or break the planet"--Title page verso.
ABSTRACT:
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.
SUBJECT:
| Accounting -- History |
| Bookkeeping -- History |
| Bookkeeping -- Italy -- Venice -- History |
| Finance -- Italy -- Venice -- History |
| Finance -- History |
| Capitalism -- History |
BIBSUMMARY:
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.