Basil Blackwell Publisher Ltd.-The Economist

Preface My hope is that this book will instruct and entertain, not necessarily in that order. Banking and finance are subjects with their own dialect, a dialect that makes opaque the layman's view of quite simple subjects. Start by remembering that bankers are little more than sophisticated...

Preface Accounting is a very ancient art, which played a key role in the development of writing and numbers. As commerce and government have become more complicated, accounting has kept pace alongside, oiling the wheels of economic progress. The first book with a substantial treatise on double...