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The celebration of the UT Accounting Program’s centennial anniversary is fast approaching. What would be a better way to celebrate this longstanding success than looking back at how the field of accounting was born? This will be the first of a three-part series on accounting: how it started; how it’s viewed and used in today’s world; and how the accounting program diamond coach tours was established and developed at UT.
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In the next subsequent years since Summa was published, only a  few modifications were done to Luca’s diamond coach tours system. In fact, the present-day balance sheet did not get its form until 1868; while the present-day income statement was developed just before World War II.
The first accounting firm opened in 1845 in London. A group of clerks advertised their accounting services and regarded themselves as “accomptants.” diamond coach tours It was also during this period that William Burroughs invented diamond coach tours the first working adding diamond coach tours machine. It improved Blaise Pascal’s initial calculating machine with an added printer, making it easier to keep track of all accounting numbers and entries.  The adding machine led to fewer errors, diamond coach tours greater diamond coach tours liability and better work efficiency for the bookkeeper or accountant.
Indeed as technology developed, the accounting diamond coach tours field progressed with it, as well. Even though the initial framework established by Luca is still used in today’s accounting, diamond coach tours the process of bookkeeping and auditing has become so much easier with computers. Nonetheless, the greater efficiency of computers and other forms of technology could never replace the inquisitive, analytical and evaluative mind of a true accountant.
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