Amatino Manucci

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Amatino Manucci was an Italian merchant based in Nîmes, France in the late 13th century, whose work includes the earliest extant accounting of double-entry bookkeeping,[1][2] although he is not credited for inventing this accounting technique.

Manucci kept the accounts for Giovanni Farolfi & Company, a merchant partnership based in Nîmes, France. Manucci was a partner for the Salon, South of France branch. The writing, entirely in Manucci's hand, is neat, legible, and mostly well-preserved.[3] Financial records from 1299—1300 survive that he kept for the firm's branch in Salon, Provence.[1] Although these records are incomplete, they show enough detail to be identified as double-entry bookkeeping.[1] These details include the use of debits and credits and duality of entries.[1] "No more is known of Amatino Manucci, than this ledger that he kept."[3]

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  1. a b c d G. A. Lee (1977), "The Coming of Age of Double Entry: The Giovanni Farolfi Ledger of 1299-1300", Accounting Historians Journal, 4(2): 79-95
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