The reckoning : financial accountability and the rise and fall of nations / Jacob Soll.
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TextPublisher: New York : Basic Books, [2014]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 0465031528
- 9780465031528
- 657.09 23
- HF5605 .S65 2014
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| E-Resources | Main Library E-Resources | 657.09 So688 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | E002053 |
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.
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