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2015-06-20
20:32 UTC
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Marcin Borkowski
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I’ve been a fan of accounting for a long time now. My affair with bookkeeping started when I studied economics, and took a course in Financial accounting (not that I had any choice – it was a compulsory one). I was then exposed to the brilliant ideas of double-entry accounting, first codified by Luca Pacioli in the late XV century. As a mathematician, I cannot overestimate the fact that double-entry bookkeeping is in fact an abstract formalized system. What’s even more impressive is that the bookkeepers are the ones who do negative numbers right!