Measurement, processing and communication of financial information about economic entities

Two merchants and a woman at a table; representing arithmetic. Etching by C. Schut after himself.

A female figure book keeping; representing arithmetic. Engraving by J. Sadeler after M. de Vos.

A female figure book keeping; representing arithmetic. Engraving by A. Vallée after M. de Vos.

The Order of Monks of the 'Charité-Dieu and Notre-Dame settling their accounts. Coloured chromolithograph.

Three men read while a woman writes numerals; representing arithmetic. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.

A Jain accountant with his wife. Gouache drawing.

A wealthy man is stabbed by a skeleton while a man weighs coins on the other side of the table; representing the vanity of riches. Engraving by M. Pregel, 1616.

Three accounts ledgers and one 'want book' kept by an unidentified grocer and druggist living in the Folkestone area

Grocer/Druggist's Ledgers and 'Wants Book'

The items in this collection can broadly be categorised as follows: day-books and a diary recording visits to patients and medicines prescribed; patient accounts ledgers; apprenticeship indentures of William Ackland; recipe books and medical notebooks; casebook, medical notes and correspondence of Charles Kingsley Ackland; memoirs, correspondence, photographs, diplomas and miscellaneous papers of the Ackland family.

Ackland and Littlewood families

1 volume<br/>(12 ff. + 4 leaves folio. 32 ? ; 20 cm). Written on the rectos only.

Sistema di Scrittura.

Batt Family, Surgeon Apothecaries, of Witney, Oxon.

Household cost accounting in Canada / by Helen MacMurchy, M.D., (Tor) Chief of the Division of Child Welfare.

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Accounting

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Grocer/Druggist's Ledgers and 'Wants Book'

Ackland and Littlewood families

Sistema di Scrittura.

Batt Family, Surgeon Apothecaries, of Witney, Oxon.

Household cost accounting in Canada / by Helen MacMurchy, M.D., (Tor) Chief of the Division of Child Welfare.

Accounting

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Works from the collections

Grocer/Druggist's Ledgers and 'Wants Book'

Ackland and Littlewood families

Sistema di Scrittura.

Batt Family, Surgeon Apothecaries, of Witney, Oxon.

Household cost accounting in Canada / by Helen MacMurchy, M.D., (Tor) Chief of the Division of Child Welfare.

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