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1831 June 17
Posology.
§. Book-keeping elucidated
Hamilton
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II A Real Account Of the sort of account thus denominated, the subject
matters are properly subject matters of all sorts moveable, immoveable
and incorporeal.
Cash is made Debtor for the first sum in hand, and
afterwards for each sum received.
In this case what is the truth of the case. In the first
place , namely on at the enumeration of the account, so much
money in hand? What is the use of speaking of the money as being
a person, and that person as owing money to the Record-keeper. Proprietor?
What is Here is a misrepresentation What a
In the way of advantage in any shape what is gained by it. Answer
Nothing: what is lost is — general intelligibility by people at
large: by all but the sort of operatives or functionaries stiled
Accountants Book-keepers. Money in hand — money received — these locutions
are understood by every body. By Bookkeepers as well as
by every body else. Cash Debtor this is a phrase understood
by professional Bookkeepers and not understood by any body else.
Cash is made Creditor to the Proprietor and the Proprietor is made
Debtor to Cash, for every sum of money disbursed by him
What is the use of Of the misrepresentation again what is
the use. Money disbursed, or Cash disbursed this is what
the professional Bookkeeper would have understood, as well as
every body else. Cash Creditor or Proprietor Debtor to Cash —
these are phrases understood by the professional Bookkeepers
but not by any body else (a).
1. Paint in one of two Colours the proper phrases; in the others the improper
habitual phrases.
2. The exercise of the
3. Quere whether there will be any use in a Table in which the words are in alphabetical order?
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