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University of Mississippi

Journal

1986

Accounting -- Study and teaching -- History; Accounting -- Iraq -- History

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Accounting 101 Four Thousand Years Ago, Orville R. Keister Oct 1986

Accounting 101 Four Thousand Years Ago, Orville R. Keister

Accounting Historians Notebook

Many accounting teachers may be surprised to learn, however, that the roots of our profession go back much farther than that: at least to the training of young scribes in Mesopotamia over 4,000 years ago when Abraham was alive and the great king Hammurabi ruled the land.

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