Preaccounting History Roots


Sirkeci O., Kara Y. L.

"Accounting: View From The Past Into The Future, Sankt-Peterburg, Rusya, 11 - 12 Nisan 2013, ss.58-67

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Sankt-Peterburg
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Rusya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.58-67
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Purpose - The study suggest that the beginning of history of accounting is 100.000 BC or older.

Methodology – The study is based on a review of found new findings on accounting history to 100.000 BC. Materialism and dialectical analysis methods of ordinal and cardinal mathematical approaches were used.

FindingsThis study is offered of the  contribution to the efforts to provide lighting on accounting historical roots alleged to have “a history as old as civilization”, the process of evolution by taking an approach interdisciplinary among others archaeological discoveries, historical reviews, technological assumptions, and taking into account the anthropological work relationships and interaction with other disciplines.

Research limitations – This study has been deepened and enriched to reinterpret accounting history with mathematician and accountant approaches by the help of new archeological and anthropological findings on the Upper and Middle Paleolithic Era.

Originality – Numbers produce accounting, and accounting manages numbers.