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06.12.2022 10:17 •  Математика

Випишите прилагательные из этого текста, укажите их степень сравнения. accounting has a long history. some scholars claim that writing arose in order to record accounting information. account records date back to the ancient civilisations of china, babylonia, greece, and egypt. the rulers of these civilisations used accounting to keep track of the cost of labour and materials used in building structures like the great pyramids. accounting developed further as a result of the information needs of merchants in the city-states of italy during the 1400s. in that commercial climate the monk luca pacioli, a mathematician and friend of leonardo da vinci, published the first known description of double-entry bookkeeping in 1494. the pace of accounting development increased during the industrial revolution as the economies of developed countries began to mass-produce goods. until that time, merchandise had been priced based on managers' hunches about cost, but increased competition required merchants to adopt more sophisticated accounting systems. in the nineteenth century, the growth of corporations, especially those in the railroad and steel industries, spurred the development of accounting. corporation owners—the stockholders—were no longer necessarily the managers of their business. managers had to create accounting systems to report to the owners how well their businesses were doing. the role of government has led to still more accounting developments. when the federal government started the income tax, accounting supplied the concept of "income." also, government at all levels has assumed expanded roles in health, education, labour, and economic planning. to ensure that the information that it uses to make decisions is reliable, the government has required strict accountability and compliance with standards in the business community.