Jean-Michel Benavin - Le Caissier Italien - 1789

Superb illustrated edition of this practical manual of accounting and bookkeeping aimed mainly at merchants, traders and business people of the late 18th century, in which Jean-Michel Benavin presents the Italian methods of financial management then considered the most advanced in Europe for the administration of commercial accounts -

The work sits within the tradition of double-entry accounting treatises developed since the Italian Renaissance and widely disseminated among European mercantile circles to ensure a more precise and rational management of commercial operations -

Benavin explains the fundamental principles of keeping the books, recording receipts and expenditures, calculating profits and losses, and the methodical organization of financial transactions -

The book describes the various registers used by merchants, such as the journal, the ledger, the cash books and inventories, showing how each commercial operation must be entered in order to maintain balance in the accounts and to monitor the state of affairs -

Jean-Michel Benavin - The Italian Cashier - 1789 -
345 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, book in its burgundy half-binding edition, light wear, a few minor defects on the cover, speckled edges, smooth spine –

Good interior condition, slight browning, the work enriched with numerous tables and engravings in and out of text including on folding plates, library stamp on the engraved title, endpapers in good condition, a pleasing copy –

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