The reckoning : financial accountability and the rise and fall of nations /
Soll, Jacob, 1968-
The reckoning : financial accountability and the rise and fall of nations / Jacob Soll. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical resources and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-262) and index
A short history of early accounting, politics, and accountability -- For God and profit: the books according to Saint Matthew -- Medici magnificence: a cautionary tale -- The mathematician, the courtier, and the emperor of the world -- The Dutch audit -- The accountant and the Sun King -- The first bailout -- "Fame and profit": counting on the Wedgwood vase -- Big debts, big numbers, and the French Revolution -- "The price of liberty" -- Railroaded -- The Dickens dilemma -- Judgment Day.
An award-winning historian presents a wide-ranging history of accounting, discussing how basic auditing and double-entry bookkeeping have shaped kingdoms and empires as well as how misuse of this system caused the 1929 Crash and the 2008 financial crisis.
0465031528 9780465031528
2013362540
Accounting--History.
Economic history.
Accounting.
History.
HF5605 / .S65 2014
657.09
The reckoning : financial accountability and the rise and fall of nations / Jacob Soll. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical resources and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-262) and index
A short history of early accounting, politics, and accountability -- For God and profit: the books according to Saint Matthew -- Medici magnificence: a cautionary tale -- The mathematician, the courtier, and the emperor of the world -- The Dutch audit -- The accountant and the Sun King -- The first bailout -- "Fame and profit": counting on the Wedgwood vase -- Big debts, big numbers, and the French Revolution -- "The price of liberty" -- Railroaded -- The Dickens dilemma -- Judgment Day.
An award-winning historian presents a wide-ranging history of accounting, discussing how basic auditing and double-entry bookkeeping have shaped kingdoms and empires as well as how misuse of this system caused the 1929 Crash and the 2008 financial crisis.
0465031528 9780465031528
2013362540
Accounting--History.
Economic history.
Accounting.
History.
HF5605 / .S65 2014
657.09