The accounting officer is a pillar for many entrepreneurs and companies on which the proper functioning of their activities is based.
Today, he not only counts and guards the constantly changing legal and tax environment, reacting to changes, but also becomes an IT specialist, because accounting processes are automated, and numerous computer programs are intended to facilitate the work in accounting.
On the Day of Accountancy 9 June., We present some curiosities from the history of accounting and at the same time give our thanks to all the busy accountants. Thanks for coming!
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Even before the invention of numbers, clay chips and tablets were used in ancient times for animal and grain records.
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The first accountants in the world operated in ancient Mesopotamia, where they worked for temples. Early forms of accounting were also found in ancient Iran.
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The father of accounting is Luca Bartolomeo de Pacoli. 10 November 1494 he published the Bible of Accounting: Summa de Arithmetica, Geometry, Proportioni et Promotionalita (All about arithmetic, geometry and proportion).
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Accountants were referred to as “buchalter”. On 9 June 1907 The “Buchalter Union in Warsaw” was established, which included the entire Polish Kingdom.
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In the 17th century they were created two Overriding accounting principles – proportionality and caution.
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Many accounting terms have Latin roots. The word ‘debit’ means ‘due’ in Latin, whereas ‘credit’ means ‘trust’. The word ‘accountant’ comes from Latin ‘computare’, meaning ‘count’.
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Famous for accounting studies - Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin and singer Janet Jackson studied accounting – although Robert Plant after two weeks gave up his certified accounting training, and Mick Jagger never finished a full year. comedian Eddie Izzard studied accounting and financial management at the University of Sheffield... where he failed spectacularly all the exams. In turn, writer John Grisham completed accounting at Mississippi State University.
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Matthew the Evangelist, Matthew the Apostle, formerly Matthew the Levi, according to the New Testament, the tax collector of Capernaum, later the apostle Jesus, is recognized as the patron of accounting.
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An accountant like a detective. FBI hires over 2000 accounting special agents who use their mathematical skills to solve crimes.
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Supermen accountant. Over the years, detectives, police and government agents have tried to lock up. one Of the craziest criminals, this is Al Capone. Finally, it was succeeded by accountants who proved the gangster tax crimes.
Once, a plaque called abacus used to serve the buchalters. In the photo reconstruction of Roman bronze abacus. In the age of many computer programs for accounting, sometimes unnecessarily complicated, sometimes we miss it.
Luca Bartolomeo de Pacoli, source: 9. edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 1 (1875) Category: History of mathematics