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Abstract

The 'double entry' and the 'charge and discharge' were two of the ways of keeping track and reason, as stated by Diego del Castillo (1522). Of them and of the so called third form of 'data and receipt' has been said that with their advantages and disadvantages they both sought the same end. Based on the study of the existing documentation of the Cathedral of Toledo, it is possible to demonstrate that the double entry and the charge and discharge were used simultaneously. Both forms of accounting were part of an accounting and legal process, in which the use of accounting served further purposes than those of information or communication. Although the double entry was used daily in the administrative departments of the cathedral, those responsible for these centres had to report to the auditors, who were integrated in the accountant's office from the late sixteenth century. In this office the accounts were produced periodically using the charge and discharge accounting system. This procedure was intended not only to control but to quantify the responsibility scope of the cashiers. The accounts produced by the auditors and signed by the secretary and the notaries of the cathedral chapter were the final documents that were used to claim responsibility to the manager, receiver or cashier before the Courts. Under this approach, the daily double-entry accounting in all probability disappeared once document-account was given to the person responsible for the charge and discharge process. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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Title
La partida doble y el cargo y data como instrumentos de un sistema de información contable y responsabilidad jurídica integral, según se manifiesta en fuentes documentales de la Catedral de Toledo (1533-1613)/The double entry and the charge and discharge as instruments of a system of accounting and integral legal liability, as manifested in documentary sources of the Cathedral of Toledo (1533-1613)
Author
de Gracia, Susana Villaluenga
Pages
126-135
Publication year
2013
Publication date
2013
Publisher
ASEPUC (Associacion Espanola de Profesores Universitarios de Contabilidad)
ISSN
11384891
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1476275387
Copyright
Copyright ASEPUC (Associacion Espanola de Profesores Universitarios de Contabilidad) 2013