Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-29
Business Career of Peter Flint
Story of Salesmanship by Harold Whitehead

and his bookkeeping methods must b" smrl.
4 aud easily uudristood Most Of the plan.
/ submitted arc rather complicated and hard
! would welcome. therefore any suEger
/ tions that YOU might make as 70 the best
store. Your column in the EVENING PURilG
l,EpGER is hGlpful and wish y,@q. could help
mo out on this line. BUSINESS.
| do not answer accounting problems
because it is difficult to give any adc-
qtiate advice without more particulars
than are usually supplied to me. 7 am
glad to give you suggestion L Know
All YOU need is four books-Cashbook
Journal salesbook, ledger.
ntcr into your cashbuOk, Of course,
every item Of cash that YOU receive or
pay out That doesn't mean that you
enter every singl" article sold in your
store that way, hut YOU cntcr the days
receipts from tho cash register slips
into your cashbook.
Never spend money from your cash
always deposit in the bank all receipts
and draw from the bank an amount for
petty cash. Thus the bank really bal
ancos your cash account for you.
Keep your bills payable in an alpha
bciiCal file, and as they are paid trans
fer them to paid file Enter in the
cHShbook, of course. the item when paid.
If You run credit business carry
th" credit slips in an alphabetical file.
ana as your. customers pay YOU eutcr
il'' DhN lItEl III Inc tHSnbODk and lille
away the customers bill in paid file.
The journal takes care of all dis
counts and expense items. The ledger.
OF course. gives YOU your summaries.
rms Is rough and ready it isn't perfect,
hut It will enable YOU to handle tho
thlhS yourself, whereas all too many
feady-made systems are SO complicated
rs 10 be difficult for Il layman 10 under
stand, or else are 50 large as to he lu-
uIIrouS IN comparison with the business.
10
you,
~ hayCo followed your business career Of
t'NI ,tIlnt since its beginning. and to "a y
mat ! am interested deeply is putting 1t
..,E,rom - ardoot sporting roodnr now
,uh - me story pa and srorts meyer
r. 'umhl" until n" "'ts mis-. hora
I'm "iHh'h out as IN advertising man. AMI
rom tn. calls that YOU get from other
nanG' am sur" that there IS enough de-
nE i"Guf@ # far n2l }lo 81 +, IN InaL go study
limited information could You furnish me
Win % list OF books on marNrilu.; and sell.
yu..--', Sa!'a i'it"rS. correspondence and Copy
, iu'"ui going - ro'umbfa rnf,orsr-v I,
.h. i",I H. that "a .upI ~r.p fnr on
am @ur" thtt ,,.rs ono I1torrsI1d 70,
'' NIX Ws5,a.ns 5 ",rId +" +" rl'd 81 YOUR tioss "
h'll" NOR" often than you dno n
y" lnai!'I AuU - ...l of books rn lb..
.nhlr'i desired. th.uA you are mak-
,"E E'"b move m going ia Columbia
hl1t dpnf think that the mere En0u.lcde.
"I advertising is enough to make van
an advertising man. You need "A kno,vI.
"dge of economies and business organi-
Hatlon as we'll cum
What the future holds for Peter DE-
pendS to a big extent on hi. raad,r. W
thlnk Peter Is having his fair chance Of
I"Uldh''' al least aS much as YOU could
'S''e' "'E Lnc tI'Ie of this story.
., 'romn'c1 by the fact that my present no.
T'.'tt ,n''7 MI .m'lN limited opportunities
Won +" ",,sidt dttr'r ,,"n am moved to ask
member Of t'nr bH,,.G ,r'r INrr as a responsible"
cnro vorrJ h' of |''",,'' ""'!' my rAperi-
virtually ar af nv oi-nt years ~ cy.
iLr hn,I j. p"S!n'sS l!na'sS have been so"ut in
T,rir,, t3 M luN'H'm"nt securities wurid.
in l,,Sr yaars s'2'; ia"Es9 NOR" particularly
in tho rurrhasc and Is'L s'I, Il Y'dg 'Np"rionr'
\"stm"nt securities negotiating loans eo,,,,, M,
."i .l-n 'Nchau+" practic" and tho rurnpiia
,lons water companies located throushoat
mention these facts f.. .t..,.....,
obiuty is such as to ,nr, 'r I"Hw YOU mat my
tion. am twcnty-ols,t y.;,rg' ,f '",,-t''ra
morrl"d. My equipment inclndcs ~ c",n' "T'
'rI'''I olu,ali"n IN hish school aud col
.,r.IIti,n ffLS 4s r"nud"nIidl clerk and
offrr Of a ,rn,,,i}n5',,, 'U ,EG H"Sion 'homcl
office of Tho s,ma ,"rIrnr,'' VI ,LItb,, Nv Nv york
now hold I'm this capacity / an' c"r.
ani",N PUT ~ touch with bank officials and
.mJ, ,,J a. Ni'" arPu'tnt"nrn among buyers
sncrtad i'm, rItrtio, a. WIN N" most re-
As oviIouco of GOOD rb,'r.,c,,.' or 'tt