Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance [Audiobook] download free by Jane Gleeson White
- Listen audiobook: Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
- Author: Jane Gleeson White
- Release date: 2013/5/9
- Publisher: WW NORTON & CO
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Business, Finance and Law
- ISBN: 9780393346596
- Rating: 8.92 of 10
- Votes: 574
- Review by: Christina Abel
- Review rating: 7.47 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/7
- Duration: 3H50M35S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-21
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MP3, MPEG4, FLAC, MPC, MPEG-4 SLS, ATRAC, WAV (compression XZ, RAR, ZIP, TZO)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 25 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 18M49S (5 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Filled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers of modern finance. At the heart of the story is double-entry bookkeeping: the first system that allowed merchants to actually measure the worth of their businesses. Luca Pacioli-monk, mathematician, alchemist, and friend of Leonardo da Vinci-incorporated Arabic mathematics to formulate a system that could work across all trades and nations. As Jane Gleeson-White reveals, double-entry accounting was nothing short of revolutionary: it fueled the Renaissance, enabled capitalism to flourish, and created the global economy. John Maynard Keynes would use it to calculate GDP, the measure of a nation's wealth. Yet double-entry accounting has had its failures. With the costs of sudden corporate collapses such as Enron and Lehman Brothers, and its disregard of environmental and human costs, the time may have come to re-create it for the future.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Business & Management, Management Accounting & Bookkeeping, Financial Accounting, Finance & Accounting, Social & Cultural History, European History, Economic History
- Download servers: Mediafire, Load.to, Dropbox, 4Shared, IDrive, MEGA. Compressed in XZ, RAR, ZIP, TZO
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.13 USD
- Dimensions: 138x206x20mm
- Weight: 260g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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