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- Narrated by: Julia Farhat
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Filled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers of modern finance. At the heart of the story is double-entry bookkeeping: the first system that allowed merchants to actually measure the worth of their businesses. Luca Pacioli - monk, mathematician, alchemist, and friend of Leonardo da Vinci - incorporated Arabic mathematics to formulate a system that could work across all trades and nations. As Jane Gleeson-White reveals, double-entry accounting was nothing short of revolutionary: it fueled the Renaissance, enabled capitalism to flourish, and created the global economy. John Maynard Keynes would use it to calculate GDP, the measure of a nation’s wealth. Yet double-entry accounting has had its failures. With the costs of sudden corporate collapses such as Enron and Lehman Brothers, and its disregard of environmental and human costs, the time may have come to re-create it for the future.
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- David
- 10-18-16
Interesting Work, Terrible Narration
What did you like best about Double Entry? What did you like least?
The story of double entry accounting sounds mundane, but is fascinating. The narrator is atrocious. It sounds like a robot and I could hardly listen to it.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The narration is absolutely unbearable. I have purchased a lot of books from audible and always been pleased. This is an exception. It makes it very difficult to listen to and even harder to try to comprehend.
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- Philo
- 05-17-13
Parts of this book sing to me
Niall Ferguson seemed to break new popularizing ground with "The Ascent of Money," which in some ways resembled Kenneth Clarke's fantastic popularization "Civilization" and Jacob Bronowski's "Ascent of Man" of the 1970s. I enjoyed and was very inspired by all these works. Now, to my delight, many authors are exploring in more depth some themes also found in "Ascent of Money," particularly the transmission across the Mediterranean Sea to Italy of the business math and accounting in late medieval times that would transform the modern world. Here are also bits of art history, as math master and main character Luca Pacioli crossed paths with many important figures of the early Renaissance. Some readers may differ on the author's choices of topics in the later part of this book (and amazon book reviews will show this), but the Italian history alone for me is worth the price of admission.
7 people found this helpful
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- Dierk
- 06-20-17
Interesting book, but narrator is monotonous.
This is an interesting account on so many levels of what would appear to be a dry topic. However, the performance literally puts one to sleep.
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- Warren C Ingersoll
- 09-24-17
Wonderful book with puzzling narration.
Julia Farhat is a wonderfully talented narrator. This work is so different from her other work that the responsibility for the mechanical delivery must lie with someone else entirely.
The content of this work is important and interesting.
Julia Farhat is always crystal clear in her delivery, but this time she sounds like a robot.
The mind delights, the ears bleed.
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- M. A. Raja
- 05-26-19
A good book made horrible by computer voice
After listening to a podcast and interview with the author regarding this book, I was quite excited to go through it. Unfortunately the audio narration is horrific. Initially I thought the narrator was trying to sound flat and was possibly emulating a computer generated voice for some reason but after listening for a while I realized that the voice is indeed computer generated. The narration ruins this book, it would've been better to leave it as a non-audible title until an actual human could narrate this book. It's highly disingenuous for the publisher to list a persons name ("Julia Farhat") as a narrator when it's just a made up name for a computer generated voice. So bad that I'll be requesting a refund.
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- Willie
- 08-01-19
Good book, horrible narrator
This was my first audiobook purchase and after listening for a short while I looked for a setting to change this annoying computer voice.
Alas this is a real person reading it, now I only listen for a minute when I am sleepy at work. This voice causes my blood to boil in anger and after about 30 seconflds I'm no longer sleepy and am wide awake looking to crush skulls.
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- Stephen H
- 08-11-18
Interesting accounting of the history of...
This book tells a wonderful story, from the beginnings of the use of double-entry bookkeeping in medieval Venice to the good and bad of accounting today.
Unfortunately, the interest of the subject was almost killed by the deadpan narration of Ms Farhat. Flat, dull, and able to turn the most fascinating writing into a sleep-inducing monotone, Ms Farhat almost killed the story. It was a struggle to listen to the end, but the quality of the history manages to stand above its narration.
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- MLG
- 01-07-17
The history is interesting, but preachy ending
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Only recommend to people very interested in history or accounting. Would definitely warn them about the moralizing in the last few chapters.
Would you be willing to try another book from Jane Gleeson-White? Why or why not?
Probably not buy, might check out at library.
What three words best describe Julia Farhat’s performance?
Adequate for subject
Any additional comments?
I work in accounting. Got this because I was interested in the history.
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- Frederick Bohnen
- 07-11-22
politics an a robot narrator
this book could have been 5 stars without a doubt. unfortunately the author cannot get out of her own way. The featurette of Carl Marx is laughable given it is the only economist featured in this book. several economists contributed greatly to double entry bookkeeping.
The routine attacks against Republicans like George Bush seem out of place as well given they contributed nothing to double entry accounting and it feels as if the author is attempting to gain political points on a non-fiction book.
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- Alex
- 08-20-19
Yawn
About as interesting as the title suggests. Narrator sounds slightly robotic but it did not bother me.