The American Business Manual, Including Organization, Manufacturing, Advertising, Buying, Selling, Granting of Credit, and Auditing, Volume 1Francis Joseph Reynolds P. F. Collier & Son, 1914 |
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accounting department Accounts Payable adding machines advertising amount assets balance bank bills of exchange bonds bookkeeping cards Cash Book certificate charge clerk concern contract Controlling Accounts copy corporation correspondence debited debts delivery deposits desired device directors dividend drawer duplicate duties employees entry Federal Reserve filing firm freight funds income indorsement instrument interest invoice issued Joint Stock Company labor Ledger letter liabilities limited partnership loose-leaf loss machine manager manufacturing ment merchandise method mortgage necessary Negotiable Instruments operation organization paid paper par value partner partnership payable payment person Petty Cash poration profits promissory note purchasing agent purpose receipt received record Sales Ledger securities selling shares sheet slide-rule stockholders superintendent tion traffic department transactions trial balance typewriter usually voucher York
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Page 351 - ... property; also from interest, rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever.
Page 92 - ... the findings of the court shall be entered in a book or books to be kept for that purpose, and known as the "Juvenile Record," and the court may for convenience be called the "Juvenile Court.
Page 95 - Courts of the United States are hereby invested with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this act ; and it shall be the duty of the several district attorneys of the United States, in their respective districts, under the direction of the Attorney General, to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain such violations.
Page 106 - That the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall make uniform rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions of this Act...
Page 53 - STATE OF MISSOURI: County of Clinton: ON THIS first day of March, 1887, before me personally appeared George Jacobs and Clarinda C. Jacobs, his Wife, to me known to be the persons described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged that they executed the same as their free act and deed.
Page 364 - Surprisals, Takings at Sea, Arrests, Restraints and Detainments of all Kings, Princes, and People, of what Nation, Condition, or Quality soever, Barratry of the Master and Mariners, and of all other Perils, Losses, and Misfortunes, that have or shall come to the Hurt, Detriment, or Damage of the said Goods and Merchandises and Ship, &c., or any Part thereof...
Page 109 - To buy and sell, at home or abroad, bonds and notes of the United States, and bills, notes, revenue bonds, and warrants with a maturity from date of purchase of not exceeding six months, issued in anticipation of the collection of taxes or in anticipation of the...
Page 108 - Federal reserve bank may discount notes, drafts, and bills of exchange arising out of actual commercial transactions; that is, notes, drafts, and bills of exchange issued or drawn for agricultural, industrial, or commercial purposes, or the proceeds of which have been used, or are to be used for such purposes...
Page 351 - State, county, school, and municipal taxes paid within the year, not including those assessed against local benefits; fourth, losses actually sustained during the year, incurred in trade or arising from fires, storms, or shipwreck, and not compensated for by insurance or otherwise...
Page 77 - ASSEMBLY doing business within this state at the time the said action arose even though such corporation has not filed a copy of its charter in the office of the Secretary of State of Montana and...