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  2. History of accounting - Wikipedia

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    Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance (2013) King, Thomas A. More Than a Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting (2006) excerpt. Kirkham, Linda M., and Anne Loft. "The lady and the accounts: missing from accounting history?" Accounting Historians Journal 28.1 (2001): 67–90. online; Neu, Dean.

  3. Luca Pacioli - Wikipedia

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    Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli, O.F.M. (sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo; c. 1447 – 19 June 1517) [3] was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and an early contributor to the field now known as accounting.

  4. Accounting - Wikipedia

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    Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entities, such as businesses and corporations. [1] [2] Accounting measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of stakeholders, including investors, creditors, management, and regulators. [3]

  5. Bookkeeping - Wikipedia

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    Pacioli is regarded as the Father of Accounting. Bookkeeping is the recording of financial transactions, and is part of the process of accounting in business and other organizations. [1] It involves preparing source documents for all transactions, operations, and other events of a business.

  6. Chartered accountant - Wikipedia

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    Chartered accountants were the first accountants to form a professional accounting body, initially established in Scotland in 1854.The Edinburgh Society of Accountants (1854), the Glasgow Institute of Accountants and Actuaries (1854) and the Aberdeen Society of Accountants (1867) were each granted a royal charter almost from their inception. [1]

  7. Arthur Andersen - Wikipedia

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    Arthur Andersen LLP was an American accounting firm based in Chicago that provided auditing, tax advising, consulting and other professional services to large corporations. By 2001, it had become one of the world's largest multinational corporations and was one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers).

  8. 10 times J.K. Rowling made the world a better and more ... - AOL

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    Here are 10 times when JK Rowling made the Twitter community, and the world in general, a safe, loving, empowering, and creative place. 1. When she made all Potterheads, or "Harry Potter" fans ...

  9. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants - Wikipedia

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    AICPA and its predecessors date back to 1887, when the American Association of Public Accountants (AAPA) was formed. [4] [5] The Association went through several name changes over the years: the Institute of Public Accountants (1916), the American Institute of Accountants (1917), and the American Society of Public Accountants (1921), which merged into the American Institute of Accountants in ...