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Modern business is almost literally unthinkable without accounting. Without it, product managers wouldn’t be able to tell if their latest gizmo was recouping its development costs, investors wouldn’t ...

Double-Entry Accounting: What It Means and How It Works Your email has been sent Double-entry accounting is a system of recording transactions in two parts, debits and credits. This method of ...

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Companies record every transaction in their accounting books based on the double-entry system. Because every transaction involves certain kinds of monetary exchanges between at least two business ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper offers an explanation of why double-entry bookkeeping developed in the city-states of Northern Italy in the years 1200-1350, and ...

The Accounting Review, Vol. 91, No. 1 (JANUARY 2016), pp. 299-315 (17 pages) The emergence of double entry bookkeeping marked the shift in bookkeeping from a mechanical task to a skilled craft, and ...