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Departni Gilts of -which the credit side is larger than the debit side 

 make the amount of profit shown by the difference. 



Those where the debit side is the larger lose the difference. 



Sales for a given period consist of the money received plus what 

 is owed you (bills, not accounts), less what was owed you at the 

 start. 



Purchases: the cash i^aid out plus what you owe (bills, not ac- 

 counts), less Avhat you owed at the start. 



Bills due or payable are memorandum transactions that have not 

 before appeared in the journal, and are put in in a lump sum to 

 balance up, and then reversed and taken out to start the next jDcriod. 



Accounts due or payable have already been entered, and the 

 balances will appear on your resource and liability sheet or trial 

 balance when books are closed and balanced. 



Cash, file, inventory, entry and profit and loss columns are neces- 

 sary in the journal. Also date and narrow column for checking jDOst- 

 ings. 



Otliers are optional, as poultry, pigs, sheep, produce, fruit, grain, 

 tillage, expense, labor, household, stable, improvements and whatever 

 others you need. 



Bills receivable taken into consideration when 3'ou start your 

 books should consist only of good, live customers you are sure will 

 pay; slightly doubtful ones may be carried in a suspense account. 

 Poor ones should not enter your books at all, though a record may 

 be kept for reference. 



Labor sliould be charged with your time, the time of the hands 

 and their board. 



Labor may be credited regularly and departments charged in 

 proportion as time was spent. This provides a way of keeping the 

 time charged up though the hands are paid irregularly. 



Charge yourself regularly with a certain amount of money. Keep 

 it in a separate pocket from your business money. This does not 

 intend to cover household expenses, but saves charging up small 

 amounts spent for personal use. 



Household may be charged with fuel, cash paid out for groceries, 

 and products exchanged for supplies or consumed. 



Simplest way is to charge up time, seeds, fertilizer, manure, etc., 

 used on house garden instead of produce as used. 



Household should be credited with board for the hands and such 

 labor as is performed in caring for poultry, milk or butter. 



It is not at all superfluous to keep track .of the meals consujned 

 at your table. When the (rost is computed at the end of the year 

 your small bank account may be the result of too much entertaining. 



Live as you like and entertain as much as you wish, but know jusr 

 what YOU can afford. 



