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The history of accounting or accountancy can be traced to ancient civilizations. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The early development of accounting dates to ancient Mesopotamia , and is closely related to developments in writing , counting and money [ 1 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and early auditing systems by the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians . [ 2 ]
Time Book and Return of Work done in Machine Shop of Frankford Arsenal from Metcalfe's Systems of cost accounting, 1885.. A time book is a mostly outdated accounting record, that registered the hours worked by employees in a certain organization in a certain period. [1]
This timeline of time measurement inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions relating to timekeeping devices and their inventors, where known. Note: Dates for inventions are often controversial. Sometimes inventions are invented by several inventors around the same time, or may be ...
Eric Bruton, in his book The History of Clocks and Watches, has described H4 as "probably the most remarkable timekeeper ever made". [157] After the completion of its sea trials during the winter of 1761–1762 it was found that it was three times more accurate than was needed for Harrison to be awarded the Longitude prize.
Timekeeping was important to Vedic rituals, and Jyotisha was the Vedic-era field of tracking and predicting the movements of astronomical bodies in order to keep time, in order to fix the day and time of these rituals, [18] [19] [20] which were developed around the end of 2nd millennium BC as mentioned in "Sathapatha Brahmana".
Ancient Egyptian sundial (c. 1500 BC), from the Valley of the Kings, used for measuring work hour. Daytime divided into 12 parts. The ancient Egyptians were one of the first cultures to widely divide days into generally agreed-upon equal parts, using early timekeeping devices such as sundials, shadow clocks, and merkhets (plumb-lines used by early astronomers).
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
A petty cash book is a record of small-value purchases before they are later transferred to the ledger and final accounts; it is maintained by a petty or junior cashier. This type of cash book usually uses the imprest system: a certain amount of money is provided to the petty cashier by the senior cashier. This money is to cater for minor ...