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  2. Double-entry bookkeeping - Wikipedia

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    Pacioli is often called the "father of accounting" because he was the first to publish a detailed description of the double-entry system, thus enabling others to study and use it. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In early modern Europe , double-entry bookkeeping had theological and cosmological connotations, recalling "both the scales of justice and the ...

  3. Luca Pacioli - Wikipedia

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    Pacioli dramatically affected the practice of accounting by describing the double-entry accounting method used in parts of Italy. This revolutionized how businesses oversaw their operations, enabling improved efficiency and profitability. The Summa's section on accounting was used internationally as an accounting textbook up to the mid-16th ...

  4. Bookkeeping - Wikipedia

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    Use of the modern double entry bookkeeping system was described by Luca Pacioli in 1494. [3] The term "waste book" was used in colonial America, referring to the documenting of daily transactions of receipts and expenditures. Records were made in chronological order, and for temporary use only.

  5. Debits and credits - Wikipedia

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    The modern double entry system was likely a direct precursor of the first European adaptation many centuries later. [4] The first known use of the terms "debit" and "credit" occurred in the Venetian Luca Pacioli's 1494 work, Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita (A Summary of Arithmetic, Geometry, Proportions and Proportionality).

  6. History of accounting - Wikipedia

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    So although Luca Pacioli did not invent double-entry bookkeeping, [33] his 27-page treatise on bookkeeping is a seminal work because of its wide circulation and the fact that it was printed in the vernacular Italian language. [34] Pacioli saw accounting as an ad-hoc ordering system devised by the merchant. Its regular use provides the merchant ...

  7. Summa de arithmetica - Wikipedia

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    The Summa represents the first published description of many accounting techniques, including double-entry bookkeeping. [8] Some of the same methods were described in other manuscripts predating the Summa (such as the 1458 Della mercatura e del mercante perfetto by Benedetto Cotrugli ), but none was published before Pacioli's work, and none ...