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...first printed historical treatise on accounting, which is one of the rarest and earliest of business books, has been donated to the Business Historical Society, it was announced yesterday. This book, the "Summa de Arithmetica" by Fra Lucas Pacioli, was published in Venice in 1494. The volume is regarded as one of the greatest prizes a business library can possess...
...Lucas Pacioli took a great deal of the accounting information contained in his book from the educated Greek slaves who did the mathematical work of Italy during the Roman era. He makes no pretense of denying the source of his information, but assorts his statistics for carrying on business from the various systems accessible to him. The astounding part of his work is that it contains the essense of the accounting system as it is used today. Many methods have not changed at all since business first came to be recognized as a form of activity best carried...
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