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Locating The Source Of Pacioli's Bookkeeping Treatise, Alan Sangster
Locating The Source Of Pacioli's Bookkeeping Treatise, Alan Sangster
Accounting Historians Journal
There is much we do not know about the early development of double entry bookkeeping. What, for example, caused it to be used by sufficient merchants for it to be formally taught to their sons in Northern Italy before anyone had apparently written anything about it? And, what did Pacioli use as the source for his 1494 treatise, the earliest known detailed written description of the method, something that has challenged researchers for at least the past 130 years? Discovering Pacioli's sources could broaden our knowledge of the Renaissance roots of accounting and of its early role and place in …