Confession And Bookkeeping: The Religious, Moral, And Rhetorical Roots of Modern Accounting
, by Aho, James AlfredNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780791465462 | 0791465462
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/1/2006
Double-entry bookkeeping (DEB), modern capitalism's first and foremost calculative technology, was "invented" during the Middle Ages when profit making was morally stigmatized. James Aho examines the problematic of moneymaking and offers an explanatory understanding of the paradoxical coupling of profit seeking and morality by situating DEB in the religious circumstances from which it emerged, specifically the newly instituted sacrament of penance, that is, confession.