Accounting History and the Rise of Civilization is a brief history of accounting, focusing on the long-term importance of accounting on issues from information accumulation and analysis around money and finance, business and government, and continuing success as technology and innovation expands.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Part I
• Introduction
• Supplement A: Ride Through Accounting History
• Supplement B: Double Entry: A Brief Primer
• Supplement C: What Is Capitalism and Why Is It Important to Civilization?
• Supplement D: Panic Attack: All Those Pesky Bubbles and Crashes
• Chapter 1: Accounting and the Ancient World
• Chapter 2: The Dark Ages to the Enlightenment
• Chapter 3: Britain and the Industrial Revolution
• Chapter 4: The Early American Experience
• Chapter 5: The Railroads
• Chapter 6: Industrialization and Professional Management
• Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Part II
• Introduction
• Supplement A: Audit Opinions
• Supplement B: Scandals and Corruption
• Supplement C: What's So Difficult About Setting Financial Accounting Standards?
• Supplement D: Information Technology
• Chapter 1: Auditing: The Rise of a Profession
• Chapter 2: Taxes and Funding Public Policy
• Chapter 3: Public Policy and Government Accounting
• Chapter 4: Markets, Madness, and the New Deal
• Chapter 5: Post-World War II Business and Accounting
• Chapter 6: The Tech Bubble to Subprime Meltdown
• Conclusions
• Bibliography