History of accounting

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Welcome to a short overview of the history of accounting in Western Civilization, in a “big picture” kind of way. This video takes you through five major eras of development in the history of accounting, and highlights the major breakthroughs, many of which are relevant up to this present day!

What’s the essence of the accounting profession? It hasn’t changed that much over time. Accountants are here to record your transactions. The core part of the word “accounting” is: “count”. We help you count, record, classify, summarize, reconcile and analyze. That role started a long time ago, and has evolved along with developments in society and technology.

⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️
00:00 History of accounting
00:21 Definition of accounting
00:47 Origin of accounting
01:27 Pacioli's accounting method
02:18 First publicly traded company
02:52 Accounting in the industrial revolution
03:13 Automated accounting systems

The video walks you through five major eras in the development of accounting:
1. Early accounting records have been found in Mesopotamia, Assyria, Phoenicia, Sumeria and Egypt. The main purpose was to record the growth of crops and herds.
2. The early Renaissance. The birth of the monetary economy, where merchants depended on bookkeeping to oversee multiple simultaneous transactions financed by bank loans. Luca Pacioli was the author of a book on mathematics, which was printed and published in Venice, in 1494, and included a 27-page section on bookkeeping. This is seen as the first known published work on the topic of accounting, and includes a description of double entry bookkeeping and ledger classes, concepts that are in use until this very day.
3. The Dutch East India Company became the first company in history to issue bonds and shares of stock to the general public. In other words, it was officially the first publicly traded company, because it was the first company to be ever actually listed on an official stock exchange. This new ownership structure drove further developments in accounting methods.
4. The industrial revolution started in the late 1700s in Britain. The steam engine is an important symbol for the technical developments around the time. As machines took the central role in manufacturing, and labor was largely seen as expandable, machines became the assets on the balance sheet and people a mere expense in the income statement.
5. The advent of the computer, shaking up and revolutionizing society to this very day. Large parts of transaction processing can now be fully automated, and new ways of building organizations emerge.

Accounting frameworks like US GAAP and IFRS continue to evolve, adapting to the changing world around us.

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Accounting is the essential building block of the scientific method and developments in logic there after. We owe much of our understanding of physics to developing accounting principles first.

bawol-official
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Thank you so much for producing this video.

What do you think will be the next major development?

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Awesome information in a very short video, thanks for it!

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Well that's my project done. THANKS!

Star_MINI
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Thank you so muchfor producing this video

alimpd
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Great video. Please make more video on this topic.

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Damn, my Teacher Pinned this YT link for our Subject Love it(ironically)

Venom
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Every thing is happened in UK area only ? In India In Maurya Empire, The Great Aacharya Chanakya Wrote one book named "Kautiley Arthshastra" (Arthshastra Means Economics) where he gave details of Accounting... Half knowledge is dangerous

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could you give me all the names of the map please?

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Good try
But forget to mention before Egyptian (before 10, 000 years ago) its in Indian that is before 23, 000 year's ago) then zero 0 invented by great indian scientists Mr Arya Bhatt and great Luca Pacioli also read lot of books one of them is holybook of India that written by great Acharya Chanakya His book name is Kautiley Arthshastra...

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Dr. PH expenses $200
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