Multiple studies have found convincing data that place the roots of the accounting practice in Mesopotamia. The first ever texts in history were not about philosophical thoughts, poems, epics, laws or victories; they were economical documents focusing on tax payments, debt accumulation, and ownership. It is highly noteworthy that the first person to be named in a document was an accountant, not a prophet, a poet or a great commander. Accounting practice is as old as human history. Historians claim that accounting is the oldest human profession with a 7000-year-old history behind it. It was discovered in the Babylonian , Assyrian and Sumerian ruins that people used primitive accounting methods to record the growth of the crops and the herds. These findings support the idea that accounting is as old as the history of humanity. Accounting historians suggest that the first documents that were ever written by Sumerians were used to record the storage of agricultural products. ...