The Accounting Historians Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2 (December 2010), pp. 145-154 (10 pages) This paper explains why Pacioli's exposition of double-entry bookkeeping, published in his Summa of 1494, was ...

A copy of 15th century Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli’s famous book “Summa de arithmetica,” which included the first-ever description of the practice of double-entry book-keeping, is expected to ...

This week looks like being the most spectacular of the scientific auction year with three landmark auctions of scientific documents and specimens crossing the block. The three important artifacts are ...

The original how-to guide for accountants is going under the hammer. Chris Carter reports. If you find yourself busy putting your accounts in order as we approach the end of the tax year, spare a ...

The first printed historical treatise on accounting, which is one of the rarest and earliest of business books, has been donated to the Business Historical Society, it was announced yesterday. This ...

IMGCAP(1)]Luca Pacioli, an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar, is widely known as the “Father of Accounting” for publishing 36 chapters on the double-entry accounting method used by Venetian ...

Leonardo da Vinci s friend Luca Pacioli is considered to be the father of accounting, but could the old Franciscan friar have left behind some tantalizing clues in his 1494 book that would predict the ...

Cada 10 de noviembre se celebra el Día Internacional de la Contabilidad, una fecha que reconoce el papel clave de esta ...

Cada 10 de noviembre se conmemora el Día Internacional de la Contabilidad, en reconocimiento a una de las disciplinas económicas más relevantes para el control y la eficiencia en la administración de ...

Pues esa cifra fue la desembolsada por un comprador anónimo que adquirió Summa de Arithmetica, del fraile renacentista italiano Luca Pacioli. En concreto, la obra del veneciano Pacioli fue vendida por ...