A Manual of Bookkeeping (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Manual of Bookkeeping<br><br>I have been repeatedly urged by those who have used my elementary books on Bookkeeping to write a series of advanced lessons on the same subject, and I have accordingly written this Manual for the use of Students. By "Students" I do not mean Examination Students exclusively. I have had these in my mind throughout, but not less so those practical Students, who are not content to keep their books in jog-trot fashion, but are willing to give time and thought to inquire into the reasons of the methods employed, and have an open mind with respect to the constantly recurring question of the possibility of an improvement in those methods.<br><br>Students of this latter class ought to be a very numerous and a continually increasing body. Official Receivers in Bankruptcy declare with wearisome iteration in how many instances faulty Bookkeeping is the cause of financial disaster, until one is tempted to cry out for a law that no one shall give or take credit who does not keep his books on sound principles.<br><br>But the fear of Bankruptcy is not the only motive that should impel to a study of this subject. There can be no doubt that ignorance of the principles of Bookkeeping has hitherto afforded a wide field for the exercise of the talents of unscrupulous adventurers with a gift for the dexterous manipulation of figures.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.