Abstract This paper focuses on the use of double entry bookkeeping by one of the leading merchants and financial advisors of Tudor England, Sir Thomas Gresham. Gresham's double entry journal for the period, 26 April 1546 to 10 July 1352, is doubly interesting. It is a valuable example of the early use of double entry bookkeeping by a successful merchant, and it is the earliest known extant English account book in double entry. The extant journal reveals Gresham's activities as a young merchant in the London, England-Antwerp, Belgium trade between 1546 and 1552. Throughout the period he engaged actively in both export and import activities. As a merchant adventurer he exported large quantities of English broad cloths and kersies to Antwerp. As a member of the Mercers' Company he imported, with the aid of his factor Robert Berney in Antwerp, merceries such as silk, velvet and satin. The journal also reveals his participation in a large number of exchange transactions during this period, an activity in which he was to become even more interested in subsequent years.
James Ole Winjum (Fri,) studied this question.
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