The reckoning : financial accountability and the rise and fall of nations / Jacob Soll.
Soll, Jacob, 1968- author.
2014
HF5605 .S65 2014eb
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Title The reckoning : financial accountability and the rise and fall of nations / Jacob Soll.
Author Soll, Jacob, 1968- author.
ISBN 9780465036639 (electronic book)
9780465031528
Published New York, New York : Basic Books, 2014.
Copyright ©2014
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 276 pages) : illustrations
Call Number HF5605 .S65 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 657.09
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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