Bookkeeping is millennia old and can be followed to old civilizations.[12][13][14] The early advancement of bookkeeping traces all the way back to old Mesopotamia, and is firmly connected with improvements recorded as a hard copy, counting and money;[12] there is likewise proof of early types of accounting in old Iran, [15][16] and early inspecting frameworks by the old Egyptians and Babylonians.[13] By the hour of Emperor Augustus, the Roman government approached nitty gritty monetary information.[17]