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Accounting

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Accounting at University of Birmingham

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: economy and administration
University website: www.birmingham.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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Accounting
Accounting or accountancy is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations. The modern field was established by the Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli in 1494. Accounting, which has been called the "language of business", measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of users, including investors, creditors, management, and regulators. Practitioners of accounting are known as accountants. The terms "accounting" and "financial reporting" are often used as synonyms.
Accounting
Si inaequalibus aequalia addas, omnia erunt inequalia.
If you add like to unlike you will always end up with unlike. Latin Adage, cited in Dialectic of Enlightenment, p. 4 Latin Adage, cited in Dialectic of Enlightenment, p. 4
Accounting
… without idealism, politics becomes a form of accounting, a management of purely material interests.
Ian Buruma What’s Left After 1989?
Accounting
The problem is not that this optimistic view is wrong. By economic accounting, the optimistic view is mostly right.
Didier Sornette Why Stock Markets Crash - Critical Events in Complex Systems (2003) Ch. 10, 2050: The End Of The Growth Era?, p. 390.
Solar power is potentially an almost limitless resource. The sun provides enough energy in one minute to supply the world’s energy needs for one year. But turning this resource into affordable electricity is difficult – silicon-based solar cells still suffer from a decline in their effectiveness over time. Through her ERC-funded SOLARX project, Professor Hele Savin, of Aalto University in Finland, is investigating a possible route to solving this problem.
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