What a “great” time for accounting? Or isn’t it? Accounts: angels or devils? You may hate them, but you have to have them 2002, the year of accounting Enron, Worldcom, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney Blame accounting on anything, from investor losses to Saddam Hussein hiding nuclear weapon But we stay cool! The Father of Accounting-Luca Pacioli (1445-1517) He wrote a famous mathematics book In one chapter he invented double-entry accounting system He taught Leonardo Da Vinci perspective and proportionality. The knowledge was used to paint “the Last Supper” The Regulator of U.S. Stock Market SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission www.sec.gov Arthur Levitt, commissioner, 1993-2000 in the Clinton administration Numbers Game Speech, 1998 www.m448中国最大的资料库下载