Excerpt from Farm Accounts: A Manual for Farmers and Those Desiring a Simple Method of Keeping Accounts The principles of accounting are easiest learned by prae ticing the record of business transactions which are familiar. Every student at school necessarily Spends money. The charges for the various items of school expense, as board, books, book rent, and for such incidentals as clothing, sta tionery, postage, car fare and entertainment, require the tre quent handling of money. The amounts thus spent by each student are important matters for record. Because these things are familiar to all, our first lesson illustrates the proper manner of writing an account of cash receipts and expenditures while at school. 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.