The Dialogus de Scaccario (c.1179): The first Western book on accounting?

Abacus

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 443-474

  Jones, Michael John ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting; Book; Charge and discharge; Dialogue of the Exchequer; Dialogus de Scaccario

Indexed keywords

EID: 57549087244     PISSN: 00013072     EISSN: 14676281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6281.2008.00272.x     Document Type: Article

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