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  2. Bulla (seal) - Wikipedia

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    A bulla (or clay envelope) and its contents on display at the Louvre. Uruk period (4000–3100 BC).. A bulla (Medieval Latin for "a round seal", from Classical Latin bulla, "bubble, blob"; plural bullae) is an inscribed clay, soft metal (lead or tin), bitumen, or wax token used in commercial and legal documentation as a form of authentication and for tamper-proofing whatever is attached to it ...

  3. List of business and finance abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    For example, $225K would be understood to mean $225,000, and $3.6K would be understood to mean $3,600. Multiple K's are not commonly used to represent larger numbers. In other words, it would look odd to use $1.2KK to represent $1,200,000. Ke – Is used as an abbreviation for Cost of Equity (COE).

  4. Bulla - Wikipedia

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    Bulla (dermatology), large blister; Bulla, a focal lung pneumatosis, an air pocket in the lung; Auditory bulla, a hollow bony structure on the skull enclosing the ear; Ethmoid bulla, part of the ethmoid bone of the skull; Bulla, a genus of sea snails

  5. Economic history of the world - Wikipedia

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    A collection of clay bullae, accounting tokens, and tablets used to facilitate accounting in ancient Mesopotamia, Oriental Institute Museum. Ancient Egypt was home to almost half of the global population by 30th century BC.

  6. Uruk period - Wikipedia

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    Study of the buildings on this site shows that it was a planned settlement, which would have required significant means. The archaeological material from the site is identical to that of Uruk, consisting of pottery, cylinder-seals, bullae, accounting calculi, and numerical tablets from the end of the period. Thus this new city has every ...

  7. Chart of accounts - Wikipedia

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    While some countries define standard national charts of accounts (for example France and Germany) others such as the United States and United Kingdom do not. In the European Union, most countries codify a national GAAP (consistent with the EU accounting directives) and also require IFRS (as outlined by the IAS regulation) for public companies ...

  8. History of ancient numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known writing for record keeping emerged from a system of accounting that used small clay tokens. The earliest artifacts claimed to be tokens are from Tell Abu Hureyra , a site in the Upper Euphrates valley in Syria dated to the 10th millennium BCE, [ 16 ] and Ganj-i-Dareh Tepe , a site in the Zagros region of Iran dated to the 9th ...

  9. Double-entry bookkeeping - Wikipedia

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    The accounting equation is a statement of equality between the debits and the credits. The rules of debit and credit depend on the nature of an account. For the purpose of the accounting equation approach, all the accounts are classified into the following five types: assets, capital, liabilities, revenues/incomes, or expenses/losses.