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A new and easy method of book-keeping, [electronic resource] : or, instructions for a methodical keeping of merchants accompts, by way of debitor and creditor, distributed into three parts. The first containing, proper accompts, &c. The waste-book, Journal, and Ledger, being curiously Engraven, for the more speedy Improvement of Youth, to write fair and Free; and the better to fit them for Merchandize and Business, the Examples are placed on the Left-Hand Pages, and the Rules on the Right, with Directions for the right Stating each Example; and Reasons why such Debtors and Creditors should be so Stated. II. Containing factorage and company accompts, with Examples of Exchange. As also, a short Explanation of the Terms that are most usual in Merchants Accompts. III. A method whereby the retaler may be exact with his apprentice, or shop-keeper, and bring his Shop to a true Ballance: Likewise some Forms of Entries upon the Duties of Goods, with their Discounts and Draw-Backs at the Custom-House. To which is also added, Factors and Stewards Accompts for the right and exact Stating of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Quarterly and Yearly Rents, with an Abstract or the whole Charge and Discharge. By Alexander Brodie, Gent.
by Brodie, Alexander, fl. 1722. Material type:  Book; Language:English; Format:
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 Publisher: MDCCXXII. [1722]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The accountant's companion [electronic resource] : or, schoolmaster's new assistant to practical arithmetic. Wherein The Rudiments of Common Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, are delivered in a new and more concise Method than hitherto published. Whereby The vulgar Error of confounding Principles together, and the diversifying them into several Rules when they are built on the same Reason, is carefully avoided. With a sufficient variety of examples, Operated in the neatest and most approved Methods. Also the Extraction and Use of the square and cube roots, &c. With their Application to various Branches of the Mathematics. Duodecimals proved by practice, &c. And applied to Work performed by Joiners, Painters, Glaziers, Paviours, &c. To which is added, a course of book-keeping by single entry; Very necessary in facilitating the Acquisition of the Italian Method, and extremely useful for many Kinds of Business in which the latter is not materially wanted. The Whole adapted to the Use of Merchants, wholesale and retail Dealers in every Branch of Business. By J. Seally, Author of the Universal Tutor; or, New English Spelling-Book and Expositor, &c. and late Master of the Academy in Bridgewater-Square, Barbican, London.
by Seally, John, ca. 1747-1795. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Debtor and creditor made easy [electronic resource] : or, a short instruction, for the attaining the right use of accompts, after the best method used by merchants. Fitted to the trades, or Ways of Dealing, in these several capacities: Viz. The Youth, or Young Scholar, The Husband-Man, or Farmer, The Country-Gentleman, The Retailing Shop-Keeper, The Handicrafts-Man, The Merchant. The fourth edition, corrected and amended. To which is added, instructions for rent-gatherers, &c. By Stephen Monteage.
by Monteage, Stephen, 1623?-1687. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: 1708Other title: Advice to the women and maidens of London | Instruction for rent-gatherers.Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The expeditious accountant; or, cyphering rendered so short, that half the trouble attending the common methods is saved, in most occurrences; and so easy, that a Person of moderate Capacity may learn with very little Assistance from a Master; the Rules given being plain, the Examples properly illustrated, and Numbers of Questions, with their Answers, being annexed to them, to exercise the Learner. A Very Curious Work, Totally different from all that have preceded it. In five parts. By Nicholas Salmon, Master of the Academy, Red-Lion-Street, Clerkenwell; And Author of The French Teacher's Assistant, and of The Rules for the French Genders [electronic resource].
by Salmon, Nicholas. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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An abridgment of Mr. London's Complete system of book-keeping [electronic resource] : Containing, Ist, Those excellent Rules for acquiring the Art of Book-Keeping, never printed before in any Language, by means of which Persons of but a common Genius, and not knowing any thing of the Matter before, have been actually taught how to state, post, examine, and ballance Books of Account, in which the whole Theory of that Art consists, and have also reduced it into Practice, the whole, in three Hours time, or less. 2dly, An Explanation of the Nature and Manner of keeping Accounts on a Merchant's Leidger, in two Sorts of Coin or Specie, at one and the same time; absolutely necessary to be used in case of Consignments abroad. 3dly, A full Demonstration of a most egregious Error committed by Mr. Webster, in his Essay on Book-Keeping, for want of knowing the Method just spoken of. And, 4thly, A Detection of some other very egregious Errors contained in the said Essay. To which is added, 5thly, The Manner of keeping Account of Bank, India, South Sea Stock, &c. after the Italian Method of Book-Keeping; drawn up at the Instance of a Proprietor in the Public Funds some time since, and now first published. By John London, late of Tiverton, Mercht.
by London, John, merchant. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCLVII. [1757]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The merchant's magazine [electronic resource] : or, trades-man's treasury. Containing I. Arithmetick in Whole Numbers and Fractions, Vulgar and Decimal; with the Reason and Demonstration of each Rule: Adorn'd with curious Copper-Cutts of the chief Tables and Titles II. Merchants Accompts, or a most Concise Way of Casting up the Value of Merchandize, Tare and Trett, Interest of Coin, Rule of Barter, Loss and Gain, Fellowship, Equation of Payments, and several Matters relating to Exchange, Never before made Publick. III. Book-Keeping, after a Plain, Easie and Natural Method shewing how to Enter, Post, Close and Ballance an Accompt; &c. IV. Maxims concerning Bills of Exchange, Factors and Factorage: The Law concerning Brokers, &c. V. The Port of Letters to and from Foreign Countries; and the Days when Mails are sent to, and due from those Countries. VI. An Account of the Commodities produced by all Countries; Their chief Towns of Trade, and Bigness of the Country compar'd with England. Vii. A Merchant or Trader's Dictionary, Explaining the most Difficult Terms used in Trade. Viii. Precedents of Merchants Writings; as, Bills of Lading, Invoyces, Bills of Exchange, Letters of Credit, Chapter-Parties, &c. With many other Things not Extant before, as by the Table of Contents appears. Accommodated chiefly to the Practice of Merchants and Trades-Men: But is likewise useful for Schools, Bankers, Diversion of Gentlemen, Business of Mechanicks, and Officers of the King's Custom and Excise. The fourth edition corrected and improv'd. By E. Hatton, Gent.
by Hatton, Edward, b. 1664?. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCI. [1701]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The accomptant's pocket-companion [electronic resource] : a manual, instructing merchants, gentlemen of estates and others to begin their books, carry on their Business, and make a Ballance; where nothing is omitted which can occur in the Course of Trade. To which is added, the method of catching and curing cod-fish, ling, tusk, seath and white herrings, with Tables shewing the Charges and Profits on Fishing, and Directions about boyling Oyl. By John Drummond Merchant.
by Drummond, John, Merchant. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XXVIII. [1718]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The gentleman's complete book-keeper [electronic resource] : containing, I. Rules and directions for keeping books after the modern way. II. Examples of various Kinds of Books for keeping an Accompt of Landed Estates, Rents of Houses, &c. in the most concise and eligible Manner. III. The current Prices of Church and Laymens Estates all over England, whether in Fee, or Copyholds, Leaseholds, Lives, Widowhoods, enfranchising Copyholds, changing of Lives, Advowsons, Reversions, &c. IV. Methods whereby a Gentleman may cast up the Value of any of the above-named Estates by Common Arithmetick. V. Advice about Purchases in general. VI. A specimen of a rental book, Cash Book, Journal and Leger, of an Estate kept after the Merchants Way of keeping their Books, commonly called the Italian Method, or Double Entry. Written Originally for the Use of his own Pupils, By Richard Hayes, accomptant, In Queen-Street, Cheapside. Author of the Negotiators Magazine.
by Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: M.DCC.XLI. [1741]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Italian book-keeping, [electronic resource] : reduced into an art: being an entire new and compleat system of accompts in general. Demonstrated in a Chain of Consequences from Clear and Self-Evident Principles. To which is added, the greatest variety of merchants accounts, with an Explanation of all the Terms of Art, which have commonly been made use of. Together, with proper Reflections on the whole. By Hustcraft Stephens, Accomptant. With a preface, shewing the Nature and Usefulness of this Art, by James Weir, Gent.
by Stephens, Hustcraft. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCXXXV. [1735]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Merchants accounts [electronic resource] : or, the Italian method of book-keeping. Set forth in so clear a Light, that any Person, of a tolerable Capacity, may easily make himself Master thereof. Exemplified in Thirty-Seven Cases in Domestic Trade, and Nineteen in Foreign, and plann'd By a Waste-Book, Journal, and Ledger; So that any young Merchant or Accountant may, if he's at a Loss how to place any Transaction in Business to Account, by looking amongst the Cases, find one answerable to his own Business at any Time transacted; and, by inspecting the Journal for the same Case, will immediately find by it how that Transaction ought to be placed to Account; there being feldom or ever any Thing happening in Business, but what will be illustrated by some one of the said Cases. Herein are also contained, Sixteen Cases in Company Accounts, Shewing how to place any Thing to Account, whether bought, sold, or barter'd for, &c. in Company. Also gentlemen's accounts, Shewing How to keep their Rentals, their Receipts, and Payments, in every Kind; and also how to draw up a general Balance at any Time, which shall prove their Rentals to have been regularly kept, the Arrears truly made out, and all Receipts and Payments duly entered, or c countra. By Thomas Lazonby, Schoolmaster, Of Burton-Agnes, in Yorkshire; Where young Persons may be bearded and indiuiled in what is bere in rectial, also in any of the most useful Branches in Mathematicks.
by Lazonby, Thomas. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: M.DCC.LVII. [1757]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Cash tables at five pounds and fifteen pounds per cent. on the duties of excise and matt. Also at 2 1/2 and 1 1/4 per cent. or 6d. and 3d. per Pound, Chargeable on estates, goods and effects sold by way of auction. Calculated with the greatest Exactness, from a Farthing to a Pound, at one View, and from one Pound to Ten Thousand to the Hundredth Part of a Farthing. Designed chiefly for the officers, &c. belonging to the Excise, and also for the Use of Auctioneers and others. By John Crosse, Clerk to Benj. Willis, Esq; Collector of Excise for Durham Collection [electronic resource].
by Crosse, John, clerk. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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