Double Entry in Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale': Chaucer and Bookkeeping Before Pacioli
- Author / Editor
- Ganim, John M.
Double Entry in Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale': Chaucer and Bookkeeping Before Pacioli
- Published
- Chaucer Review 30 (1996): 294-305
- Description
- Double-entry bookkeeping, which Chaucer could have learned in Italy, contains "a system of rhetoric as well as a technique." The plot of ShT can be seen as a series of parallel accounts, with the ending as the "closing of the books" on the final transaction.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Shipman and His Tale.