| Double Entry - How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
(2012)
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| Front Cover |
Book Details |
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| Genre |
Non-Fiction |
| Subject |
Accounting - History; Bookkeeping - History; Bookkeeping - Italy - Venice - History; Capitalism - History; Finance - History; Finance - Italy - Venice - History |
| Publication Date |
2012 |
| Format |
Hardcover |
| Publisher |
W. W. Norton & Company |
| Extras |
Dust Jacket; Dust Jacket Cover |
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| Personal Details |
| Store |
Powell's City of Books |
| Purchase Price |
$17.95 |
| Acquire Date |
2/27/2014 |
| Condition |
Very Good/Very Good |
| Rating |
0 |
| Links |
Library of Congress
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| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
HF5605 .G54 2012 |
| Dewey |
657.09 |
| ISBN |
9780393088960 |
| First Edition |
No |
| Rare |
No |
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| Notes/Review |
Some pencil erasures on the front inside cover, otherwise fine
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I found this fairly short book both entertaining and enlightening. It starts at the beginning - the adoption of Arabic numerals in Europe - and continues to the present day with various accounting scandals (Enron, WorldCom) and an analysis of the inability of current national accounting standards to include the worth of the environmental treasures we are quickly depleting.
The first half of the book focuses on Luca Pacioli - friend of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and a couple of popes - who wrote the first treatise on the Venetian way of bookkeeping. |
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