Title continues: "Exhibiting the Manner in Which the Method of Double Entry May Be Applied to the Accounts of Government; With Proposals For the Introduction of a Uniform and Centralized System of Accouonts in All the Public Offices." Isaac Preston Cory (1802 - 1842) was best known as an antiquarian. He compiled ancient fragments into a compendium not surprisingly called Cory's Ancient Fragments. Here, however, in this treatise first published in 1839, he takes on the subject of government accounting.
