I’d had my eye on this for a while, as it’s the book that gets recommended if you’re into mathematical treatments of accounting, but personally I felt it was a bit of a let-down. The book was interesting but not insightful. For example, after defining an algebraic model of an accounting system, the authors show how the standard algebraic notion of a quotient system can be used to derive standard accounting reports. That’s interesting! But then they go on to point out that the number o...
