The Reckoning
by Jacob Soll
AccountingBookkeepingHistoryEconomic historyAccounting, historySocial aspectsPolitical aspects
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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