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100			_aJane Gleeson-White
245			_aDouble Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
082			_a657.09
250			_a1st
260			_aUSA _bW. W. Norton & Company _c2012
520			_aFilled 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.
655			_aHistory
655			_aNonfiction
655			_aEconomics
655			_aFinance
655			_aBusiness
655			_aAccounting
655			_aMathematics
655			_aMoney
650			_a(ASB-2515) Financial Accounting
650			_a(ASB-2516) Financial Accounting
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