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Stone, W. E. (1969). Antecedents of the accounting profession. The Accounting Review, 44(2), 284-291.

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Your reaction to this article is 202 words and discusses commercial transactions and agency as a need that gave risk to recordkeeping.

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It makes sense that recording commercial transactions would have started as soon as commercial transactions started. In fact, humans have been measuring all kinds of things even before commercial transactions, such as weather, rainfall, births and so forth. Measuring is part of noticing patterns and these patterns are of interest in keeping track of families, farms, ...

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