FoodNet

A manual of home-making

1919

Page 97

Presented as published in 1919. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
If it is considered desirable to keep a separate record of the bank account and the cash account, another subdivision may be made as shown in form 3 (page 186), The advantage of this method is that it serves as a test of the aocuracj^ of the bank book and the check book, and it also shows the state of the bank account without reference to any other record. The opening entrv^ of a cash account must be '* balance on hand,'' the bank balance Ix^ing shown in the deposits column, and the cash balance in the receipts column. Later entries will be as follows: I I 180 A MANUAL OF HOME-MAKING Bonk depoBita in the depoaits oolnmn. Withdrawals from the bank in l>oth the wtthdmwala and the receipts columns, Receipts for cuiront i\jm^ m the recf?iptH cohimn. Expenditures, whether by r-hi^k or in ciksh, in the expenditures column, as well as in the pniptT colunin on the page of the sulxlivision iif exfieridi tares. Goods for which payment is not rniide, in the right-hand coUinm of the charge acc*iunt and abo on the pro|>tT pagi* uf Huhdivisinn:^. Payment of a chargwl item or it+^ms in the expenditures column, and in the left-hand eohimn of the charge* actNJunt. In entering such itema, rcf* erence **houId \yc made to the name of the firm and the datje on which the l>ill W£us rendered. R<XHMpt of produce, valued at current market rates, in the produce account and on the proper page of subdivisions. If an account such as that indirattxl in form 3 (pa^es 186 to 189) is to he kept, a loowcvleaf account book may bo iinetl »o that atidiiioiial shet^ts may l>o iosertctl where they are neetled, If a bound book is preferred and it is necessary to rule all the sheets used, the liook may be divided into portions, each of which consists of a sufficient number of pages to accommodate a year's records. To balance accounts It is desirable that accounts be balanced at least once each week in order that errors and oriiissioos may be avoided. In balancing accounts, totals of all columns may l)e inserted in small pencil figures, which, if not erased » make it unnecessary to repeat the addition at the end of the accounting period, A test of the accuracy of such records Ls as follows: Deposits minus withdniwals = bank balance (This must agree with the check book and with the bank-book balance minus the checks not yet presented.) Receipts minus expenditures = cash on hand Dalance in the charge accounts = amount owing Total of all sulxiivisions of expenditures =* total of expenditures in the cash account, plus produce, pJus balance in the charge account. To pass to a new page, the totals are entered at the foot of the completed page and again at the top of the new page in the corresponding columns, the word fonmrd being written in the itemization column on each page. I I HOUSEHOLD RECORDS 181 To close Qccotinh.