Features the lastest information on accounting methods and standards, and explains how to avoid fraud, analyze profits, prepare financial reports, manage budgets, and determine product costs. --Publisher's description.

Describes the history of accounting and double-entry bookkeeping from Mesopotamia to the Renaissance to modern finance and explains how a system developed that could work across all trades and nations. "A compelling, thought-provoking story about how financial innovation can influence culture, society, and the course of history. Luca Pacioli, from a small Italian hill town, was dazzled by Venice. In the fifteenth century the city was a vibrant center...