1st Edition

Accounting History from the Renaissance to the Present A Remembrance of Luca Pacioli

Edited By T. A. Lee, A. Bishop, R. H. Parker Copyright 1996
314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1996. This book summarises the Seminar held in Edinburgh in 1994 in the five hundredth year since the publication of Luca Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita. Its purpose is simple but relevant to every accountant. It revisits some fundamentals that lay behind Pacioli's decision to write his Summa, and examines whether the accounting... Read more
Introduction Chapter 1: Pacioli's Legacy Chapter 2: Financial Accounting Practice 1600-1970: Continuity and Change 10. Notes Chapter 3: A Recent History of Financial Reporting in the UK and US Chapter 4: A History of Management Accounting Through the 1960 Chapter 5: The Impact of Advancements in Manufacturing and Information Technology on Management Accounting Systems Chapter 6: A History of the Professionalisation of Accountancy In the UK and the US Chapter 7: Information Technology and the Accountancy Profession

Biography

Thomas A. Lee, The University of Alabama, A. Bishop, R.H. Parker