Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Practical System of Book-Keeping
Book-keeping is a mercantile term, used to denote the method of keeping accounts of all kinds, in such a man ner that a person may at any time know the true state of his affairs.
Every person engaged in business for himself should keep a book of some kind in Which to record all his business transactions. The day-labourer, the farmer, and the mechanic, should keep an account With every person With Whom they deal. No one should trust transactions of a pecuniary nature to his memory alone.
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