Confession and Bookkeeping

Confession and BookkeepingA fascinating exploration of the connection between profit making and morality, this book illustrates how modern accounting had its roots in the sacrament of confession. Double entry bookkeeping (DEB), modern capitalism's first and foremost calculative technology, was "invented" during the Middle Ages when profit making was morally stigmatized. James Aho examines the problematic of moneymaking and offers an explanatory understanding of the paradoxical

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