James B. Thomson epub A Commercial Arithmetic: Designed for Academies, High Schools, Counting Rooms, and Business Colleges (Classic Reprint)

Teachers. -- TTIHE preeeht work has been prepared with sole reference to a bosiness education in its higher departments. To this end, subjects which have been fully explained in the authors elementary works, or an equivalent, and with which the student is supposed to be familiar, are omitted, and he is introduced at once to the subject in hand. All irrelevant matter is rejected, and that which helps towards the accomplishment of the object is adopted. A large amount of valuable business information is embodied in a concise form, and presented in a manner to be easily understood. In the fundamental rules, many labor-saviug methods of operation are given under the appropriate name Counting Boom Methods, so called from the B.ct that rapid computations are so generally practiced by expert accountants. These methods may be applied, not only to the examples given for illustration and practice, but to every operation involving the simple rules, and will often greatly facilitate arithmetical calculations. A variety of business forms are introduced, and their nature and uses explained, in order to assist the student to an understanding of what constitutes an important part of a ]ractical business life. The manner of keeping Book A ccounts, Averaging Payments, Partnership Settlements, etc., are fully explained and illustrated by examples from actual business transactions. The chapter on theM etric System of Weights and Measures is made prominent in the body of the book, and includes all the latest recommendations of theM etric Bureau. Examples involving a knowledge of its applications are freely scattered through the book. The subject of A nalysis, the business mans specialty, enters largely into the elucidation of every subject, and has an entire chapter devoted to its various applications.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is