The Book Keeper

Download or read book The Book-Keeper and American Counting-Room Volume 1 written by Richard P. Brief and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1989, contains reprints of the early periodical on accounting, The Book-Keeper. It dealt with ‘historical reviews of methods and systems in all ages and by all nations. Elucidations of accounts, introducing new and simplified features of accounting. Problems from the counting-room discussed and explained. Instructive notes upon plans and methods of book-keeping in every department of trade, commerce and industry.’ The journal is a primary source for students interested in the history of accounting.