Hi Michael, This one takes accounting back to 7000BC and traces the major historical developments from there forward to the GFC in 2010. It would appear that writing may have developed from ancient accountants methods of keeping counts of goods traded. The first cheques were written by Arab traders to China around 900AD and a trader could write a cheque on his account in Baghdad that would be honoured in China. The Reaissance features heavily in the development of accounting. Da Vinci's mathematics teacher Luca de Paciola produced the first known treatise on accounting methds and double entry. I have really only read the introduction and first chapter which is an outline of the historical development so far but that has sucked me in.
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