Risque's Bookkeeping and Business Management A Complete Guide to Modern Practice, Written So Anyone May Understand It and With 70 Forms Filled in to the Actual Entries Are Made Classic Reprint

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Several years ago, a few public-spirited business men met in one of our large eastern cities to discuss plans for more uniform practices and better methods in general business.

Among the questions discussed was the indifference to any proper system of bookkeeping by so many of the smaller, and in some cases, by even the more important concerns.

These gentlemen stated that their own long and varied experience confirmed the published statistics showing the high percentage of failures due directly to that cause.

It was proposed to formulate a Simple and short though complete system as applicable for suggestion in such cases, which might remedy this, and a request was made to prepare it. After due consideration of the varying businesses and the capital employed, it was decided that no one such plan would suit all.

A short time ago another request came from one of our most prominent trade journals of almost the identical scope, but like the former was regret fully declined.

During a long and tedious convalescence of the past months, that same question kept recurring and demanding solution, and was only stilled by laying out the following programme.

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