Luca Pacioli, here in a 1495 portrait by an unknown Renaissance artist, wrote on accounting ethics in 1494. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
OK, not everyone is into accounting. Whether you are into accounting or not, a recent Planet Money podcast titled “A Mathematician, The Last Supper and the Birth of Accounting” will fascinate you. A recent book by Jane Gleeson-White, author of Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance, tells us the story of Pacioli and how his book on mathematics changed business across the planet.
I found this truly amazing!
