The History of Accounting

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The author introduces the topic by discussing the modern day needs of society to have accountants and how their importance is often overlooked. He then recounts the earliest known form of accounting and how it has developed over the years, stating many examples of where it is necessary to have good accounting skills and how these skills were developed. The paper concludes with what the future can bring for the accounting world.

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"Methods of accountancy were somewhat modernized during the Renaissance in Italy, where Arabic numerals had been introduced long before for financial purposes; Luca Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita (1494)
is viewed as a crucial work in determining the course of Renaissance, and eventually modern, accounting. While Benedetto Cotrugli had invented the double-entry system of accounting before the publication of the Summa, Pacioli's methods greatly expanded on these ideas, containing 36 chapters on bookkeeping and earning the rare distinction of publication. "

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