{"id":172,"date":"2008-01-22T13:10:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T19:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/2008\/01\/22\/new-stuff-tuesday-january-22\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T20:53:15","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T02:53:15","slug":"new-stuff-tuesday-january-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/172","title":{"rendered":"New Stuff Tuesday &#8211; January 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/accounting.jpg\" alt=\"A Brief History of Accounting\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>More Than a Numbers Game<\/strong>:<br \/>\nA Brief History of Accounting<br \/>\nby Thomas King<br \/>\nHF5616 .U5 K53 2006<br \/>\n<strong>New Book Island<\/strong>, 2nd floor<\/p>\n<p>In honor of the fact that I start my journey into accounting with Introduction to Financial Accounting, I thought that this book was appropriate for New Stuff Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>King, treasurer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressive.com\/\">Progressive Insurance<\/a> and a native of Racine, uses <em>More Than a Numbers Game<\/em> to fill the void in the thousands of accounting texts published since Luca Pacioli wrote the first one in 1494. According to the reviews, he&#8217;s done a pretty darn good job of it too. The textbooks students and professionals utilize on a daily basis address the how-to part of compiling balance sheets and analyzing financial statements. King&#8217;s book confronts the why&#8217;s of accounting and examines six issues important to accountants and the managers, investors and other consumers of financial information: inflation, volatility, intangibles, debt, options and earnings. This text would serve as an excellent primer to understanding the reasons for the way accounting has evolved and what the future holds for the profession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Than a Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting by Thomas King HF5616 .U5 K53 2006 New Book Island, 2nd floor In honor of the fact that I start my journey into accounting with Introduction to Financial Accounting, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/172\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[507,178,185],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-stuff-tuesdays","tag-accounting","tag-books","tag-new-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}