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Indlæser... Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance (2011)af Jane Gleeson-White
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Fascinating. One of the most interesting books I’ve read in a while. Takes a seemingly dry topic: bookkeeping and shows how one innovation in bookkeeping—double entry— most likely made capitalism possible, the destruction of our natural world inevitable, and the potential salvation of our world tenable. Just a remarkable journey. Luca Picioli is the polymath hero who in renaissance Venice was the first to explain Arabic numbers and double entry bookkeeping to the masses. The sweep of this book is amazing. It touches on the history of math, commerce, book history, the Industrial Age, and climate change. Just an incredible scope for a mere 250 pages. Wow. We’re in trouble. We better hope the powers that be let us use double entry to account in REAL terms the health and wealth of nations. Somewhat interesting but the author does skip around the timeline a bit. Going back and forth and repeating certain facts like we would not be able to understand it if it wasn't repeated. Towards the end it does become a bit of a rant about how we need to find a way to take natural resources and quality of life into account. But basically no one has found a better way to balance the books since 15th century Venice. Can't really recommend this book. A few interesting facts here and there. She spends time on the Renaissance and on Pacioli's background. There's a quick gloss on what double-entry bookkeeping/accounting is and how it works. She then discusses how it changed in 1800s. Then on to accounting scandals then & now. Last was a lot about GDP, GNP, National Systems of Accounts and how they are inadequate. For all the time and attention she spends on this last part, she makes no effort at all to show how this is tied to double-entry accounting. A surprisingly poor attempt to explore the history of accounting, built around an account of the traditional father of modern accounting leading into a superficial plan for using accounting to advance modern environmental concerns. The author appears to be neither an expert in history or accounting, and this book will not enlighten non-accountants who come to understand the importance of accounting in the modern world.
The invention of double-entry bookkeeping, which originated in Italy more than six centuries ago, is one of the great achievements of Western civilization. Without this venerable method of accounting . . . it is scarcely possible to conceive of our economic system. . . . Ms. Gleeson-White's narrative in Double Entry is clear and approachable. The complexities of accounting are lucidly presented. THIS book traces the 500-year history of double-entry bookkeeping, the basis of modern accounting. A dull and unpromising subject? To the contrary, in the imaginative hands of Sydney writer Jane Gleeson-White it proves fascinating. The dramatic subtitle, How the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world -- and how their invention could make or break the planet, is not an overreach. Hæderspriser
Describes the history of accounting and double-entry bookkeeping from Mesopotamia to the Renaissance to modern finance and explains how a system developed that could work across all trades and nations. Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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