Whether you’re in the business of selling widgets, providing cleaning services, tending to animals, or manufacturing industrial equipment, your business operates under the same basic principles of modern accounting. These principles are generally accepted practices of accounting, which became commonplace in the 1800’s, though the original concepts are as old as ancient Mesopotamia.

The world of accounting took great strides with the treatise of bookkeeping, published by Luca Pacioli in 1494 within a book entitled, Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita. These five basic principles form the foundation of modern accounting practices. Read More