A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping
Jolyon Jenkins investigates how accountants shaped the modern world
A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping - Episode 1
Jolyon Jenkins asks how accountants came to take over the world and traces the religious roots of some accounting practices.
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A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping - Episode 10
Jolyon Jenkins investigates how accountants shaped the modern world, and looks at accountancy as obfuscation.
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A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping - Episode 2
Jolyon Jenkins goes back 5,000 years, to ancient Mesopotamia, to examine controversial theories about how accountants invented writing.
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A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping - Episode 3
Jolyon Jenkins hears how a corrupt Roman governor was tried in court using his own forged account books, and how the ancient Greeks inscribed their accounts on walls for all to see.
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A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping - Episode 4
How the emergence of double entry book-keeping in medieval Italy paved the way for the rise of capitalism.
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A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping - Episode 5
Jolyon Jenkins investigates how accountants shaped the modern world and examines the feudal accounting systems of Medieval England.
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A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping - Episode 6
Why Josiah Wedgwood began to use accounting to run his business, and how similar his 18th-century cost accounting system was to our modern management accounting.
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A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping - Episode 7
Jolyon Jenkins investigates how accountants shaped the modern world. How the 'railway mania' of the mid-19th century led to dodgy accounting and outright fraud.
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A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping - Episode 8
Jolyon Jenkins explores the role played by accountants in the Holocaust, the Irish Potato Famine and the Highland Clearances.
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A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping - Episode 9
Jolyon Jenkins examines the military's sometimes uncomfortable relationship with accountancy, from the 17th century to present day.
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