History
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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