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The art of proving, in excruciating detail, exactly how the money disappeared.
means The systematic recording, summarizing, and reporting of financial transactions so a business or person can track what came in, what went out, and where it stands.
from From 'account,' tracing back through Old French 'aconter' — to count, to reckon up — built from 'a-' (to) plus 'conter' (to count, tell), itself from Latin 'computare,' to calculate. The word carried both senses early on: counting money and recounting a story, which is why you still 'give an account' of your actions as well as your expenses — the ledger and the alibi share a root.
- father figure
- Luca Pacioli, a Franciscan friar, wrote the first manual
- debit origin
- Debit means 'he owes,' from Latin debere
- double-entry logic
- Every transaction hits two accounts, always balancing
- oldest profession claim
- Clay tokens tracking grain predate writing itself