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Double Entry in Chaucer's "Shipman's Tale": Chaucer and Bookkeeping before Pacioli

Ganim examines the technical aspects of commerce contained in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Shipman's Tale." There is a definite possibility that the system of double-entry bookkeeping was fresh in the mind of Chaucer when he wrote the tale.

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Literary characters
Literary criticism
Merchants
Monks
Poetry
Puns
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