Double entry: how the merchants of Venice created modern finance

Accounting: our first communications technology

Merchants and mathematics

Luca Pacioli: from Sansepolcro to celebrity

Pacioli's landmark bookkeeping treatise of 1494

Venetian double entry goes viral

Double entry morphs: the industrial revolution and the birth of a profession

Double entry and capitalism; chicken and egg?

John Maynard Keynes, double entry and the wealth of nations

The rise and scandalous rise of a profession

Gross domestic product and how accounting could make or break the planet.