Posted on: 28 August 2012

Digital Rare Book:
Ancient Double-Entry Bookkeeping.
Lucas Pacioli's treatise (A. D. 1494--the earliest known writer on bookkeeping) reproduced and translated with reproductions, notes and abstracts from Manzoni, Pietra, Mainardi, Ympyn, Stevin and Dafforne.
By John B. Geijsbeek
Published by the Author in Denver, Colorado - 1914

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Image:
The Order of Monks of the 'Charité-Dieu and Notre-Dame settling their accounts - 1466.
Coloured chromolithograph.
Credit: Wellcome Library, London


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The innovative Italians of the Renaissance are widely acknowledged to be the fathers of modern accounting and Benedetto Cotrugli invented the "Double Entry". And some of ICAI's accounting standards were prevalent then. The double entry was first used by a silk trader in Bengal in late 18th century.And the first Chartered Accountant (and how I loathe being one)to visit this country was in 1888...don't recollect the name however.

Arindam Sen: You have just proven the cliche wrong that... 'all accountants are boring'! And that compliment coming from another accountant... : )

...Or maybe wrong people in the wrong profession :)