Happy International Accounting Day! Today, businesses around the world celebrate the accountants who keep their finances in order and we’re celebrating our members, a group of tax and accounting professionals who have gone above and beyond in the last 12 months.
We celebrate International Accounting Day on 10th November each year, because on this day in 1494, Luca Pacioli, an Italian accountant and mathematician, who reportedly collaborated with Leonardo Da Vinci, published his first book.
In this book, Pacioli included the first written account of double-entry bookkeeping, which had been in use for many years. Pacioli’s description of double-entry bookkeeping changed the face of accounting and it’s still used today.
But accounting dates back much further than Pacioli, and has evolved as a profession, alongside the businesses and business owners it supports.
Your job, school, bank, religious institution, and government wouldn’t survive without those dedicated number crunchers. That’s why we have a day out of the year “earmarked” just to celebrate them!
May God bless all accountants
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