Luca Pacioli
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Luca Pacioli was an Italian mathematician and friar who lived from around 1445 to 1517 and is known as the father of modern accounting. He matters because he developed and documented the double-entry bookkeeping system that forms the foundation of accounting practices still used in business today.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- ca. 1445
- Died
- 1517
- Works
- 32
Top works
- Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni, et proportionalita
- La divina proporción
- De ludo scachorum
- Summa de arithmetica geometria
- Paciuolo's Verhandeling over de koopmansboekhouding
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Article
Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli, O.F.M. (sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo; c. 1447 – 19 June 1517) was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and an early contributor to the field now known as accounting. He is referred to as the father of accounting and bookkeeping and he was the first person to publish a work on the double-entry system of book-keeping on the continent. He was also called Luca di Borgo after his birthplace, Borgo Sansepolcro, Tuscany.
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