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A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping

A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping: Episode 2

Episode 2

BBC Radio 4 - A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping, Episode 2

Jolyon Jenkins goes back 5,000 years to see how accountants invented writing.

Jolyon Jenkins goes back 5,000 years, to ancient Mesopotamia, to examine controversial theories about how accountants invented writing.

Jolyon Jenkins investigates how accountants shaped the modern world. 

He goes back 5,000 years, to ancient Mesopotamia, to examine controversial theories about how accountants invented writing. The first written records do not record great stories or noble thoughts but show whether or not people had paid their bills to the state authorities. Accounting started off as the exercise of political power.

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