Montgomery Library Of Accountancy, 1494-1987 2000 Volumes
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- work on accounting (a portion of the Summa arithmetica of Luca Pacioli, 1494) to the early twentieth
century, a gift in 1924 from Robert H. Montgomery, Professor of Accounting at the School of Business in
order to document the history of accounting practices. The collection was formally transferred to Rare - Abstract Or Scope
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Over 2000 printed volumes of works on accountancy, mostly how-to guides, from the first printed work on accounting (a portion of the Summa arithmetica of Luca Pacioli, 1494) to the early twentieth century, a gift in 1924 from Robert H. Montgomery, Professor of Accounting at the School of Business in order to document the history of accounting practices. The collection was formally transferred to Rare Books from the Business Library in 1974, although it had been on deposit here prior to 1960.