TY - BOOK AU - Soll,Jacob TI - The reckoning: financial accountability and the rise and fall of nations SN - 0465031528 AV - HF5605 .S65 2014 U1 - 657.09 23 PY - 2014///] CY - New York PB - Basic Books KW - Accounting KW - History KW - Economic history KW - sears KW - fast N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://drive.google.com/file/d/19c7QnTomR5e5jxFzSfs4ypjIxRuBNT5b/view?usp=sharing ER -