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We are a team of writers, experimenters and researchers providing you with the best advice with zero bias or partiality. Proper bookkeeping is an unavoidable task when running a small business, but ...

Trying to work out whether double-entry bookkeeping created capitalism in its own image, or whether capitalism’s needs have shaped double-entry bookkeeping, is a classic chicken-and-egg conundrum.

Double-entry bookkeeping is a system that tracks the way funds flow within a business by accounting for transactions as transfers from one account, or bookkeeping category, to another. In double-entry ...

Traditional bookkeeping was performed using one of two systems. Accountants and bookkeepers used the systems to manually calculate company books and present financial statements in accordance with ...

Our business heroes are entrepreneurs, inventors and even marketers, rarely accountants. Yet the invention of double-entry bookkeeping, which originated in Italy more than six centuries ago, is one of ...