Excerpt from Winslow's System of Book-Keeping, by Double Entry, for Retail Business: Practical Guide, and Lucid Expositor of the Science; Illustrating the Manner of Opening and Conducting Accounts by This Method, So That, by the Inspection of a Few Accounts in the Ledger, Accurate Knowledge of One's Entire Business May Be Obtained Other books than the shore, called Auxiliary, Subsidiary, or Helping books, are used, in numbers, and for such purposes, as business may require, or as fancy may dictate. Of this class of books, with this practice, but few are necessary, particularly in retail business. Those of most' importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.