Excerpt from Book-Keeping A knowledge of book-keeping does not imply an extensive knowledge Of business. The former can be acquired by study, the latter by experience only. It is not our intention to attempt a description Of every variety of transaction which occurs in the course Of business, but to lay down and illustrate those general principles by the intelligent application of which all problems in book-keeping can be solved. 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.