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

A.D. 1494 - the earliest known writer on bookkeeping

First published in 1996. This book summarises the Seminar held in Edinburgh in 1994 in the five hundredth year since the publication of Luca Pacioli's Summa de

A “brilliant” (Los Angeles Review of Books) history of accounting, showing how financial and political accountability has shaped the rise and fall of nation

How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and th