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Luca Pacioli

Also Known As Luca di Borgo
Management Theorist

Luca Pacioli (c. 1447-1517) was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar whose 1494 treatise Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita was the first printed work to describe the double-entry bookkeeping system already used by Venetian merchants, earning him lasting recognition as the father of accounting. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Death Date
1517-06-19 1
Death Year
1517 1
Birthplace
Sansepolcro, Republic of Florence 2
Nationality
Italian 1
Defining Contribution
First to publish a systematic description of the double-entry bookkeeping method used by Venetian merchants, in his 1494 Summa de Arithmetica. 1
Notable Work
Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita (1494) 1
Partially Attested
Birth Year
1447 1
Sources give Pacioli's birth year as circa 1447; the exact date is not definitively recorded.
Death Place
Sansepolcro 2
Infobox lists Sansepolcro but the Life section says only most likely there; Wikidata lists both Rome and Sansepolcro.
Connections

Associated With

Accounting, Practice Disciplines

Traditionally credited as the father of accounting for the first printed description of double-entry bookkeeping.

Source Wikipedia, Luca Pacioli
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Nationality

Italy

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Source Wikipedia, Luca PacioliLead sentence 1tier 2
Quote, Lead sentence 1
Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo; c. 1447 – 19 June 1517) was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and an early contributor to the field now known as accounting.
Sources
1. Wikipedia, Luca Pacioli
Wikipedia
  • Impact on accounting and business
  • Associated With: Accounting, lead section
    He is referred to as the father of accounting and bookkeeping and he was the first person to publish a work on the double-entry system of book-keeping on the continent.
  • In Group: Accounting, Finance and Performance Measurement Thinkers, Lead section
    Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo; c. 1447-19 June 1517) was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and an early contributor to the field now known as accounting.
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2. Wikipedia, Luca Pacioli
  • Lead section, sentence 3
    Luca di Borgo
  • Infobox, birth_place
    Sansepolcro, Republic of Florence
  • Life, paragraph 1
    most likely in Sansepolcro
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