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The history of accounting and its technique is linked to the development of trade , agriculture and industrialization as economic activities. From the outset, it was sought to keep track of the transactions and the results obtained in the commercial activity. The archaeologists have found in the civilizations of the Imperial Inca , the Ancient Egypt and Rome various manifestations of accounting records, which in a basic way constitute a record of the inputs and outputs of products sold and the money . The use of the currency was important for the development of accounting, since there was no similar developments in an economy of barter .
Accounting in Ancient Rome
There was difficulty in providing objective data on the development of accounting in the Ancient World , especially in Rome , due to the scarcity of documents preserved on the subject and its lack of formal knowledge about it. If it is known that it had a relevant role , it was admitted as a legal test means the inscription of loans in the book of accounts of the creditor ( Codex rational ) and in the book of income and expenses , ( codes acetic et expense ). Cato the Elder , in his work De re rustic  (or Res rustic ),

Some historians have thought to note in the incomplete fragments of accounting that a first development of the double principle exists, although there is a great diversity of opinions on this thesis , there are some quotations from great authors like Cicero who seem to support this fact, But they are too confusing to establish the thesis that the method of double entry was known in antiquity.

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