Excerpt from How to Run a Wholesale Business at a Profit: Plans and Methods for Cutting Down Expenses and Increasing Sales Helpful Comparative Cost-of-Doing-Business Figures Based on a National Investigation Made by the Bureau of Business Standards To obtain absolutely final cost figures it would, of course, be necessary to study for at least three years cost figures obtained from a group of concerns having a uniform accounting system. It is believed, however, that these indicative figures will serve adequately in supplying you with a means of making a helpful com parison of your individual costs with those of others, and of reaching a profitable standard of costs in your own business. 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.