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TRABAJO DE INGLES
SENA
BUCARAMANGA
2022
CHRONICLE OF FRAY LUCA
PACIOLI
In it, Pacioli devoted thirty-six chapters to the description of the accounting methods
used by the main Venetian merchants. The author also devoted part of his work to the
description of other commercial uses, such as partnership contracts, the collection of
interest and the use of bills of exchange. According to Pacioli, the entries in the
daily book consist of two clearly differentiated parts: one beginning with the word
(Debit of the accounting entry) and the other with the word is (the Credit of the
accounting entry), antecedent of the traditional accounting entry model. Based on the
need to transmit economic information for later times. He was the first person to
publish detailed material on the accounting system. Most of the accounting
principles and cycles described by Pacioli are still used to this day. His
documentation includes journals, ledgers, year-end closing dates, trial balances,
cost accounting, accounting ethics. Pacioli in his books gives advice and recalls some
obvious facts. To do business, he writes, capital is needed, but the most important
thing is that others have confidence in your word; to be successful, a trader must
know how to calculate and keep track of it, be orderly and meticulous. Fray
Luca Pacioli was a producer of great contributions to the organization and
systematization of accounting, but, above all, for having formalized and
established the double entry system, which right now is the basis of modern
accounting. He established foundations and principles including the following