Book banning has been a familiar part of the educational landscape in the twentieth century, and even such literary masterpieces as Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice have not escaped the censor's wrath for their allegedly racist views. ...
These concepts originate from the merchants of the Italian City States. Glautier & Underdown (1991) point out that the main principles of the Italian Method were set out by Luca Pacioli in his famous work Summa de Arithmetica, Geometrica, Proportioni et Proportionalita which was published in Venice in 1494. ... Other important parts of financial accounting are the report of the directors, notes relating to the accounts, auditor's report, notice of the annual general meeting etc. ...
