Excerpt from A Complete Treatise on Practical Book-Keeping: In Which the Elementary Principles of Every Branch of the Science Are Clearly Explained, and the Most Approved Forms of the Practice of the First Counting-Houses Correctly Exhibited, in Various Specimens of Books The favourable reception Which the two former Editions of this Treatise has met with from Merchants, and Public Accountants, has induced the Author to revise and enlarge it, by adding a preliminary dissertation on the business of the counting-house, under the fol. Lowing heads: Correspondence - Purchasing and Selling - Making Consignments - Supporting Credit - Insurance and Underwriting - Bills of Exchange - Partnership - Bankruptcy - Mercantile Books, and Arbitration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.