21  minutes ago  -  Get here : https://kimchicrooos.blogspot.com/?yers=0393346595 | Download Book [PDF]  Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance | &#8220Lively history. . . . Show[s] double entry&#8217s role in the creation of the accounting profession, and even of capitalism itself.&#8221&#8213The New Yorker Filled 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&#8213monk, mathematician, alchemist, and friend of Leonardo da Vinci&#8213incorporated 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&#8217s wealth. Yet double-entry accounting has had its failures. With the costs of

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