The young book-keeper's assistant : shewing him, in the most plain and easy manner, the Italian way of stating debtor and creditor; with Proper and instructive Notes under every Entry in the Waste-Book, where necessary, by which the Method of Journalizing is rendered more easy and intelligible; and also the like Notes in the Journal and Ledger, inserted by way of Information, how to post the Journal, and correct Errors in the Ledger: Wherein there is a great Variety of Examples, not only in the common and ordinary Way of buying and selling, but in that of trading beyond the Seas, both for a Merchant's Self and in Company. All which is contained in two Setts of Books, directing the Learner, not by Precept only, but by Example, how to draw out a new Inventory from the old Books, and insert it in the new ones; and the Trade continued as if it were in the real Shop Or'compting House. To which is annexed, a synopsis or compendium of the whole art of stating debtor and creditor, In all the Circumstances of Book-Keeping, both in Proper, Factorage and Company Accompts, Domestic and Foreign. The whole Designed for the Use of Schools in Great-Britain and Ireland, and in the English Plantations and Colonies abroad; for the Help and Assistance of Merchants in their several 'compting-Houses; and for young Gentlemen at their first Entrances on their Mercantile Apprenticeships. The like for Benefit to the Scholar and Ease to the Master; not extant. The tenth edition. By Thomas Dilworth Author of the New Guide to the English Tongue, Schoolmasters Assistant, &c. &c.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dilworth, Thomas, d. 1780.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bookkeeping.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([340]p. )

Other Title:

Young book-keeper's assistant

Place of Publication:

London : printed and sold by Richard and Henry Causton (successors to the late Mr. Henry Kent) at the Printing-Office, No. 21, in Finch-Lane, near the Royal-Exchange, MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]

Notes:

Consisting of sample entries in 'waste-books', journals and ledgers.

Irregular pagination.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T199546.

OCLC:

642526685