A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping
Jolyon Jenkins investigates how accountants shaped the modern world
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A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping
Jolyon Jenkins traces the religious roots of some accounting practices.
A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping
Jolyon Jenkins looks at accountancy as obfuscation.
A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping
Jolyon Jenkins goes back 5,000 years to see how accountants invented writing.
A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping
How a corrupt Roman governor was tried in court using his own forged account books.
A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping
The rise of double entry book-keeping in medieval Italy.
A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping
Jolyon Jenkins examines accountancy fraud in the Middle Ages.
A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping
Why Josiah Wedgwood began to use accounting to run his business.
A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping
How the 'railway mania' of the mid-19th century led to dodgy accounting and outright fraud
A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping
The role played by accountants in the Holocaust and the Highland Clearances.
A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping
Jolyon Jenkins on the military's sometimes uncomfortable relationship with accountancy.