The history of accounting Luca Pacioli who was known as the father of accounting born in 1446 in Sansepolcro where he also received his earlier education known as abbaco education. The knowledge he got was focused on knowledge required by merchants. While working as a tutor to the three sons of merchant, he continued his own education in Venice in 1464 and during this time he wrote his first book on accounting. Then he wrote a comprehensive abbaco textbook in vernacular for his students who were studying from him during the period of 1477 and 1478. Then he started teaching at the University level in Italy and he taught in numbers of Universities in Italy including Perugia, holding the first chair in mathematics and contributing his knowledge to his students. In 1494, his first book on Summa de arithmetica, geometria and proportioni et proportionalita got the publication in the city of Venice in Italy. It was the time when he got huge reception for his work written on geometr