Publication Date
Fall 1986
Abstract
Many accounting teachers may be surprised to learn, however, that the roots of our profession go back much farther than that: at least to the training of young scribes in Mesopotamia over 4,000 years ago when Abraham was alive and the great king Hammurabi ruled the land.
Recommended Citation
Keister, Orville R.
(1986)
"Accounting 101 four thousand years ago,"
Accounting Historians Notebook: Vol. 9:
No.
2, Article 14.
Available at:
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aah_notebook/vol9/iss2/14