The tradesman's director, or the London and Country Shopkeeper's Useful companion. Containing such instructions as will enable the shopkeeper to carry on his business with more ease and greater exactness than is usually done: Particularly shewing A most easy and useful Method of keeping Books of Accompts: And such Informations in regard to the Rules and Practice of Trade, and the best and cheapest Manner of buying Commodities, as must be of great Advantage to all Shopkeepers. The Whole comprising every Thing that can be useful in that Way: As Lists of English Manufactures, with the best Markets for them. Forms of Bills and Notes. Several useful and very necessary Tables. Plain Directions how to carry on Business, in such a Manner that the Shopkeeper may see his Profits every Day, and on each Commodity; know exactly what he stands indebted to each Dealer, and if any Mistake has happened in the Delivery of Goods, or by Overcharges, &c. and thereby prevent many Inconveniencies, and oftentimes great Losses, which happen by not keeping Accompts in a proper Manner. To which are added, Tables of Annuities, or how to purchase Land upon Lives, with many other useful Particulars

Bibliographic Details

Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for W. Owen at Temple-Bar; S. Crowder and H. Woodgate in Paternoster-Row; B. Collins in Salisbury, and R. Goadby in Sherborne 1756, 1756
Subjects:	Accounting / Early Works To 1800 Annuities Bookkeeping / Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/1027200500?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa