tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-313214416063794063.post143482095080835964..comments2023-10-20T03:01:56.620-07:00Comments on Joe Hoyle: Teaching - Getting the Most from Your Students: How Do You Radically Improve Education?Professor Joe Hoylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05030049285564661108noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-313214416063794063.post-74546702045020359002010-06-01T18:44:56.887-07:002010-06-01T18:44:56.887-07:00Well, if this were a bookkeeping textbook, I would...Well, if this were a bookkeeping textbook, I would have put double entry bookkeeping in chapter one. This is a financial accounting textbook and I think chapter 4 is about right. But, that is certainly up to the individual textbook writer. Different people start different ways.<br /><br />Second, I never said that double entry was invented in late Renaissance Italy. I do say that the procedures "were first documented in 1494 by Fra Luca Bartolomeo." What is your suggestion on that? JoeProfessor Joe Hoylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05030049285564661108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-313214416063794063.post-53512695773639389962010-06-01T15:56:43.291-07:002010-06-01T15:56:43.291-07:00I find it strange that the foundation to all finan...I find it strange that the foundation to all financial accounting, being double entry, does not make an entry until chapter 4. It is a bit like Hamlet turning up in Act 3 of the eponymous play.<br /><br />Besides the assertion that double entry was invented in late Renaissance Italy is simply wrong.<br /><br />Whilst I can no longer empathise with an accounting novice I would have thought an introduction that discussed the importance of financial accounting against the backdrop of economic history would grab their attention.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17040037473245281511noreply@blogger.com