“Books should be closed each year, especially in partnership because frequent accounting makes for long friendship.”

— Luca Pacioli, book Summa de arithmetica

Summa de arithmetica, geometria. Proportioni et proportionalita (Venice 1494)

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Italian father of accounting 1445–1517

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