This book gives the complete history of accounting.  It starts off with Greek and Roman bookkeeping and ends with modern day accounting.  You may find this book useful in helping you learn the origins of accounting.  It may also be helpful to you when writing a report on the history of accounting.

Accounting History shows you how accounting has evolved since over centuries.  It also uses past accounting books as references, by taking passages from the earliest known accounting books.  This book describes how double-entry accounting first came about.  Accounting History may even help you understand why bookkeeping is done in certain ways.

This book compares the ways that different countries kept track of their money.  It shows you how modern day methods were brought about from many different accounting systems.  You will also read about how many different countries came together to make one accounting system.  There may still be a few differences between each country’s ways of doing things, but the basics of any accounting system are still the same.  Accounting History will be useful for you; by helping you understand the modern ways of accounting.