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Course title:
Accounting History
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Teacher 1:
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Teacher 2:
Teacher 2:
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Year of degree course:
According to student's Study Programme
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Workload
| Attività frontale: Lectures: |
48.0 |
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| Esercitazioni: Applied activities: |
0.0 |
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| Studio individuale: Individual work: |
102.0 |
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| Attività didattica a piccoli gruppi: Group work: |
0.0 |
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| Seminari: Seminars: |
0.0 |
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| Laboratori: Laboratories: |
0.0 |
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| TOTALE (voci sopra-elencate): TOTAL: |
150.0 |
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| Ore di lezione settimanali: |
6.0 |
Prerequisites:
None
Educational goals:
To provide historical knowledge of accounting in its investigative nuclei: - History of accounting surveys - "Doctrinal" history - Corporate history - Professional history
Course contents:
The course develops research methodology and the use of sources in reasearch on the history of accounting, providing a systematic framework of research carried out in the past. The main themes of the historical study of accounting will be studied according to the four main themes in 'Educational Goals', with particular emphasis on the following: - the origin and evolution of mathematics in trade and of accounting surveys; - Pacioli and post-Paciolian authors; - Society, economy and accounting from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment; - The nineteenth century and the scientific heights reached by Accounting (Individuals, Schools, Doctrines); - The twentieth century: the rise of the corporate ecomony and its consolidation - The history of the accounting profession; - The history of corporations.
Course text 1:
Teaching activities:
Classroom lectures, guided tours, etc.
Assessment:
oral
An oral examination on the entire programme presented.
Teaching language:
Italian
Other information:
Sub-periods I - II N.B.: Students who have already completed the three-year degree exam in the History of Accounting (3 credits) must prepare a short thesis on a subject agreed upon with the teacher, in addition to the programme.