Bookkeeping - Early works to 1800
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A new introduction to trade and business very useful for the youth of both sexes. Wherein is contained great variety of receipts for money, Goods, &c. promissory notes, bills of exchange, Bills Of AtParcels, And Bills ON Book - Debts. With ample instructions how to Form Them. Also Several Instructive Exercises; Disbursements; Week's Expences, Goods bought at Sales, &c. To which are added, I. Commercial and Epistolary Correspondence, exemplified in various Forms of Business, and Familiar Letters. II. A List of the most common Abbrevations of Words for the Dispatch of Business. III. Arithmetical Tables of Weights and Measures. IV. A new Set of Questions to exercise the Learner in several of the Rules of Arithmetic, by Way of Amusement, as well as Improvdment. V. The Explanation and Use of the Frontispiece or Perpetual Almanac. A new edition, corrected and improved, With the Addition of Four Copper Plates neatly engraved. By Peter Hudson, Author of The New English Introduction to the Latin Tongue, French Scholar's Guide, &c. And other School Masters. Designed for the use of schools, and Youth in General.
Hudson, PeterDate: MDCCLXI. [1761]- E-books
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The gentleman's auditor or, a new and easy method for keeping accompts of gentlemens estates, as well in relation to their layings-out, as comings-in. With the Manner of Auditing and Stating the Accompts of their Cashiers, Stewards, Bayliffs, Rent-Gatherers, and other Servants, through whose Hands any Part of their Estate does pass; and transposing them to a Ledger kept after the Italian Manner; whereby may at any Time be seen what they save or spend, get or lose, to a Farthing. Being a Work very useful, both for Gentlemen themselves, and also their Secretaries, Bayliffs, Rent-Gatherers, &c. By T. R.
T. R. (Thomas Richards).Date: 1709- E-books
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Book-Keeping methodiz'd or, a methodical treatise of merchant-accompts, according to the Italian form. Wherein the theory of the art is fully explained, and reduced to Practice, by variety of suitable Examples in all the branches of trade. To which is added, a large appendix. Containing 1. Descriptions and specimens of the Subsidiary Books used by merchants. II. Monies and Exchanges, the nature of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Bills of Parcels. III. Precedents of Merchants Writings, peculiar to England, Scotland, and common to both. IV. The Commission, Duty, and Power of Factors. V. A short History of the Trading Companies in Great Britain, with an account of her exports and imports. VI. The produce and Commerce of the Sugar Colonies; with a specimen of the accompts kept by the factors or store-keepers; and an explication of wharf and plantation accompts. Vii. The produce and commerce of the Tobacco Colonies; with a specimen of the accompts usually kept by the storekeepers. Viii. The method of keeping accompts proper for Shopkeepers or Retailers. IX. A dictionary, explaining abstruse words and terms that occur in merchandise. By John Mair, A.M.
Mair, John, 1702 or 3-1769.Date: 1765- E-books
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The principles of book-keeping explain'd , Explain'd, With the Chief Cases thereof Stated and Resolved. To which are annexed, two setts of books of fictitious trade, wherein the whole is reduced to practice. By Mr. Alexander Macghie Merchant in Edinburgh.
Macghie, Alexander, d. 1715.Date: 1718- E-books
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The exact dealer refined being a useful companion for all traders. In three parts. Containing I. A Description of the Commodities, Coins, Weights and Measures of Great Britain, and its neighbouring Countries. With Useful Directions about Entring and Taking up Goods at the Custom house: Instructions about Bills of Exchange, and the Keeping of Books of Accompts. The way of Recovering Debts; likewise Exact Tables of Accompts ready cast up II. Containing a plain Institution of Arithmetick in all its Parts; with an excellent and easie new way of multiplying Foot-Measure in Feet and Inches, by Feet and Inches, without Reduction and applied to the Measuring of Carpenters Joyners, Painters, Plaisterers, Glasiers, and Bricklayers Work, &c. And of Solid Timber, &c Also the whole Art of Gauging, with several curious Tables. And very necessary Observations relating to the Measuring of Land. III. Containing the Travellers Guide through all the Principal Roads in England. An Account of Carriers Inns, and Days of going out. Also the Rates of Post-Letters. With other Matter not before made publick The fifth edition, enlarged. By J H. author of The secretary's guide.
Hill, John, fl. 1712.Date: [1702]