Author

Publication

2014 - PublicAffairs

Language

English

Word Count

78,000 words, Guess

Page Count

312 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780465031528
  • Open LibraryOL29400035M

Classifications

  • LCCHF5605 .S65 2014

Description

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of NationsPublicAffairs2014-01-01

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