The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations Soll JacobPevná vazba
The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations Soll JacobPevná vazba A "brilliant" (Los Angeles Review of Books) history of accounting, showing how financial and political…
Specifikacia The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations Soll JacobPevná vazba
The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations Soll JacobPevná vazba
A "brilliant" (Los Angeles Review of Books) history of accounting, showing how financial and political accountability has shaped the rise and fall of nations and empiresWhether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state's assets and guide its policies. Yet our appreciation for accounting and its formative role throughout history remains minimal at best-and we remain ignorant at our peril. Basic accounting tools such as auditing and double-entry bookkeeping form the basis of modern capitalism and the nation-state.
Poor or risky practices can shake, and even bring down, entire societies.In The Reckoning, historian and MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner Jacob Soll presents a sweeping history of accounting, drawing on a wealth of examples from over a millennia of human history to