...If we turn our attention to cameral accounting, we will learn that the expression 'cameralistics' originates from camara, which is the term used for the covered wagons which the warriors used to pull after themselves with their war money....
Source: Implementing reforms in public sector accounting edited by Susan Margarid Jorge Faustino p. 75
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