Book-keeping moderniz'd: or, Merchant-accounts by double entry, according to the Italian form
Subtitle: Wherein the theory of the art is clearly explained, and reduced to practice, in copious sets of books, exhibiting all the varieties that usually occur in real business. To which is added, a large appendix. Containing, I. 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 accounts kept by the factors or storekeepers; and an explication of wharf and plantation accounts. VII. The produce and commerce of the tobacco colonies; with a specimen of the accounts usually kept by the storekeepers. VIII. The method of keeping accounts proper for shop keepers or retailers. IX. The method of keeping the accounts of a land-estate. X. A dictionary, explaining abstuse words and terms that occur in merchandise
By: By John Mair, A.M.
Edition: The seventh edition.
Publisher: Printed for Bell & Bradfute, and William Creech; and sold by T. N. Longman, G. G. & J. Robinson, Cadell & Davies, and C. Dilly, London
Published: 1797
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 620
Subjects: Bookkeeping; Early works to 1800; Accounting
Other titles: Merchant-accounts by double entry
Notes: First published as 'Book-keeping methodiz'd'.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), N015593