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A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping Episodes

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  1. Episode 10

    10/10 Jolyon Jenkins looks at accountancy as obfuscation.

  2. Episode 9

    9/10 Jolyon Jenkins on the military's sometimes uncomfortable relationship with accountancy.

  3. Episode 8

    8/10 The role played by accountants in the Holocaust and the Highland Clearances.

  4. Episode 7

    7/10 How the 'railway mania' of the mid-19th century led to dodgy accounting and outright fraud

  5. Episode 6

    6/10 Why Josiah Wedgwood began to use accounting to run his business.

  6. Episode 5

    5/10 Jolyon Jenkins examines accountancy fraud in the Middle Ages.

  7. Episode 4

    4/10 The rise of double entry book-keeping in medieval Italy.

  8. Episode 3

    3/10 How a corrupt Roman governor was tried in court using his own forged account books.

  9. Episode 2

    2/10 Jolyon Jenkins goes back 5,000 years to see how accountants invented writing.

  10. Episode 1

    1/10 Jolyon Jenkins traces the religious roots of some accounting practices.