FoodNet

A manual of home-making

1919

Page 98

Presented as published in 1919. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Accounts may be closed monthly or yearly according to whether it is desired to compare the records of: (1) different months of the ^ame year; (2) corresponding months of different yeai-s; or (3) yearly totals. At the end of each accounting period, however, the old account should l>e closed by entering, preferably in red ink, the bank balance io the withdrawals column and the cash balance in tlie expenditures column of the cash account, and by then obtaining the totals of all the columns. The same balances should be carried forward to the detK:>sits and the re- ceipts columns, respectively, of the new account, as shown in form 3. Summaries for companson. Monthly or annual summaries may be arranged in the fol- lowing form: Income S Expenditures: Food >; Shelter Clothing. Misoellant'ous ^ Total $ Bftlazuse. $ , Produce account. . %. As an example, on pages 183 to 189 are found entries neces- sary to record the following facts in the three types of accounts: On May 1, 1916, the hank halance was S285.46 and the cawh baltince $17.64. Bought from A. B. Joni»s on account 6 poundi? of butter at $.35 a pound, 12 JO; 2 bushels of potatoes at $1.00 a bushel, $2.00; 10 (xiunds of sugar at $.08 a pound, $.80. May 2, paid rent by check, $30.00; bought for cash from L. K. Harvey, 3 dozen eggs at $.22 a dozen, $.66; received check for $50,00 from F. A, BrovvTi for board and deposited it; received from J. WiiliamSj salary, $30*00, of which $20. (M) was deposited and $10.00 retiiine^l in cash. May 3, paid account of May I with A. B. Jones, $4.90. May 5, bought 9 yards of dress goods at $L25 a yard, $11.25; gathered garden vegetables worth $.20 for home use; jxiid $2.00 for magazine sub- arriptioQ to May 1, 1D17. 182 A MANUAL OF HOME-MAKINO By checking these accounts according to form 3, the following results are obtained: Bank Account: DepoBits $355.46 Withdrawals 30.00 Balance 1325.46 Cash Account: Reoeipte $57.64 Expenditures 48.81 Balance $ 8.83 Total Balance $334.29 Amount Owing 0.00 Produce $ .20 ExPENDrruREs: Shelter $ 30.00 Food 5.76 Clothing 11.25 MiscellancoiLs: Education 2.00 Total $ 49.01 HOUSEHOLD RECORDS 183 2882 lS8i fa-^ 5| 03 S CO o Is s-g .S 8 09 : S o ■' o ■♦I* ^ is Cm £ 8 S 8 w 8 * g ^3«S8 ^5 ^ 184 A MANUAL OF HOME-MAKING s s SS SS5 8s S '5 I 88 SS 3 I ::s « *> 5l PS W fc* ^ri < Q lC' O d fl all ^'k iil noVSEHOU) RK( 'OUDS I I 9 88 8 I a g 8 S 2§ 3 GQ P. _8_ _8_ 1 3 o PE4 186 A MANUAL OF HOME-MAKINO < 1 T 8S SS S 3 ^ g -= " s 1 1 ft SS S 3 ^ t« O O h: V ^M ^ « OS ? 1 8 S S 8 i i ■3 1:1 1 € 88 s i ss S If : l : - - : ■m : ■ ^ ■ ^ „M . ^ ^ w :«|:|;| *" . ^^-0 ' fi . 5 ■■3*1 i '■ •: 1. g £>MPQ|^t-3 M-|- >, G m ■^^ 2q k^ F^ 1 K S I it s.a :Sa •si o S 8-t! a, « es a .29 o 9 HOUSEHOLD RECORDS 187 O o o S s -^ "♦ 88 -^f "♦ 1 A. B. Jones 6 lbs. butter at .35; 2 bu. potatoes at 1.00; 10 lbs. sugar at .0^ A. R. Jnnp«. flrroiint Mav 1 .