The reckoning : financial accountability and the rise and fall of nations /

For centuries, the importance of financial accounting has been well understood. Essential to building businesses, states, and even empires, accounting has also helped leaders measure their power and craft their policies. When practiced poorly or neglected, accounting has contributed to cycles of des...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Soll, Jacob, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
Temas:
Accounting > History.
Economic history.
Histoire économique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Accounting > Financial.
Accounting
Economic history
Rechnungswesen
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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