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The accomptants guide, or, Merchants book-keeper : containing first an explanation of all the most useful and necessary rules of arithmetick, that the meanest capacity thereby may attain to the knowledge thereof : with tables for the reducing of Flemish ells into English, and English into Flemish : also for the ready and exact computing of the custom of Holland cloth, tobacco, and reducing uncertain cask of oyl by the weight in tuns and gallons : and tables of exchange for the ready and exact computing of any sum of money remitted from England to Holland, Flanders, France, Spain and Italy, et contra : instructions for a methodical keeping of merchants accompts, by way of debtor and creditor, directing where to find examples in the journal to the several clauses in the several heads of trade : with a journal and leager [sic], and from the ballance of the leager is drawn up another inventory /

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Main Author:	Chamberlain, Robert, fl. 1678-1679
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed for John Clark ..., 1686.
Edition:	The second edition corrected.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Bookkeeping > Handbooks, manuals, etc. > Early works to 1800. Merchants > Accounting > Early works to 1800. Accounting > Early works to 1800. Arithmetic > Early works to 1900.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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