4 Accounting links

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Table of Contents

• General
• Theory
• History

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General

• Wikipedia: Accounting, Bookkeeping, Double-entry bookkeeping system, General journal etc.
• Accounting For Dragons why you should know accounting
• Bean Counter - tutorials, such as So, you want to learn Bookkeeping!. This has been recommended on the ledger list and on HN.
• Accounting Coach
• Accounting Basics
• Guru 99 Accounting Tutorials
• principlesofaccounting.com
• Double Entry Bookkeeping discussion by software developers at the WikiWikiWeb
• Winning Financially is Simple and other good episodes from the YNAB Podcast
• Back to the Stone Age: Low-Tech Expense Tracking Get Rich Slowly
• Track Every Penny You Spend Get Rich Slowly
• I’ve Tracked My Expenses — Now What? Get Rich Slowly
• A Slow-Tech Approach to Tracking Spending
• Your Financial Network Map
• The Accountancy Model and The Accountancy Model Examples - two free books by Tim Riley
• Gnucash and double entry accounting - double entry accounting introduction with examples
• Accounting for Computer Scientists
• Closing Entries
• Tutorial on multiple currency accounting by Peter Selinger

Theory

• Algebraic Models for Accounting Systems - recommended on twitter
• On Double-Entry Bookkeeping: The Mathematical Treatment David Ellerman 2014, http://www.ellerman.org/double-entry-bookkeeping

History

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_accounting
• The Vanished Grandeur of Accounting (Boston Globe) & discussion
• https://www.bbc.com/news/business-39870485
• http://www.accountingin.com/accounting-historians-journal/volume-11-number-1/the-significance-of-ancient-mesopotamia-in-accounting-history/
• Mesopotamian Tablet Collection (Spurlock Museum}
• Ledger Art

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