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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
[2014]
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 destruction, as the 2008 financial crisis has made all too clear. In The Reckoning, award-winning historian Jacob Soll shows how the use and misuse of financial bookkeeping has determined the fate of entire societies. In the right hands, accounting has created social stability, good gov. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xvii, 276 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-262) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780465036639 0465036635 |