Accounting Is Dead, Long Live Accounting

From Ideate Tue Sep 30 2014, 10:00:50

The language of accounting has not been updated in 500 years -- and, according to Peter Frampton of Color Accounting International, businesses are failing because of it. "The words we use to describe fundamental accounting concepts, like 'income' and 'expense', were used by 15th-century Venetian merchants to describe trade in physical goods like silk and spices," [...] Related posts:

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