Modern Business Methods: Being a Guide to the Operations Incidental to the Trade of the United Kingdom, with the Customary Documents and Correspondence. A Reference Book for Business Men and a Text Book for Commercial Students. Import and Export TradeMacmillan and Company, 1899 - 272 pages |
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Page v
... necessary information to those about to enter upon the duties of an office . Thorough instruction is given in the various methods of press - copying , indexing , making - up letters for the post , addressing envelopes , and the opening ...
... necessary information to those about to enter upon the duties of an office . Thorough instruction is given in the various methods of press - copying , indexing , making - up letters for the post , addressing envelopes , and the opening ...
Page xi
... necessary that Government aid should be extended to the teaching of commercial subjects , as it now is to the teaching of Science and Art . " AND TO THE Other Chambers of Commerce WHICH HAVE TAKEN AN INTEREST IN COMMERCIAL EDUCATION ...
... necessary that Government aid should be extended to the teaching of commercial subjects , as it now is to the teaching of Science and Art . " AND TO THE Other Chambers of Commerce WHICH HAVE TAKEN AN INTEREST IN COMMERCIAL EDUCATION ...
Page xiii
... necessary calculations and covering himself against risk on the rise or fall in exchange , I am sure he could not do it . The result is , that I and my brother merchants in Wolverhampton and Birmingham are obliged to refuse all Indents ...
... necessary calculations and covering himself against risk on the rise or fall in exchange , I am sure he could not do it . The result is , that I and my brother merchants in Wolverhampton and Birmingham are obliged to refuse all Indents ...
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... necessary to add to the cost price of goods in order to cover a given discount off the sale price . For example , if a manufacturer wishes to sell his goods with a discount of 20 per cent . , what percentage should be added to the cost ...
... necessary to add to the cost price of goods in order to cover a given discount off the sale price . For example , if a manufacturer wishes to sell his goods with a discount of 20 per cent . , what percentage should be added to the cost ...
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... necessary to find the average date of three , four , or more payments , or deliveries or shipments of goods , of different amounts made on different dates . For instance , supposing goods to the value of £ 360 were shipped on July 1st ...
... necessary to find the average date of three , four , or more payments , or deliveries or shipments of goods , of different amounts made on different dates . For instance , supposing goods to the value of £ 360 were shipped on July 1st ...
Common terms and phrases
abroad Account Sale agent amount arrived Bales bank Barratry Bill of Lading bills of exchange Bombay Bond Bottomry Bradford British buyer cable Calcutta Cape cargo cent centesimos centimes centimetres CHAPTER charges Charter Party clause commercial consignee cotton cubic Cubic Centimetres Customs damage decimal decimetre declare dekametres delivered delivery discount documents draft duty exports firm foreign telegrams France freight Grammes hectolitres hectometres Home Trade imports indents India invoice kilogrammes kilometres litre Liverpool Lloyd's loading London Manchester manufactured marine insurance Master measure merchandise merchant Messrs metric system millimetres milreis myriametre packages packing paid passport payable payment port principal railway rate of exchange received remit rupees sail sell seller ship Ship's shipment shipowner sold square metre stamp steamer telegraph Transhipment underwriters United Kingdom usually vessel voyage weight wool words yards
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Page 117 - People, of what Nation, condition, or Quality soever, Barratry of the Master and Mariners, and of all other Perils, Losses and Misfortunes that have or shall come to the Hurt. Detriment or Damage of the said Goods and Merchandises and Ship, &c., or any Part thereof...
Page 161 - Part thereof; and in case of any Loss or Misfortune, it shall be lawful to the Assured, their Factors, Servants, and Assigns, to sue, labour, and travel for, in and about the Defence, Safeguard and Recovery of the said Goods and Merchandises and Ship, Ac., or any Part thereof, without Prejudice to this Insurance; to the Charges whereof we, the Assurers, will contribute, each one according to the Rate and Quantity of his sum herein assured.
Page 160 - Ship, &c., until she hath moored at Anchor Twenty-four Hours in good Safety, and upon the Goods and Merchandises until the same be there discharged and safely landed ; and it shall be lawful for the said Ship, &c., in this Voyage to proceed and sail to and touch and stay at any Ports or Places whatsoever without Prejudice to this Insurance.
Page 13 - If he does not signify his approval or acceptance to the seller, but retains the goods without giving notice of rejection, then, if a time has been fixed for the return of the goods, on the expiration of such time, and, if no time has been fixed, on the expiration of a reasonable time.
Page 13 - Subject to the provisions of this Act and of any statute in that behalf, there is no implied warranty or condition as to the quality or fitness for any particular purpose of goods supplied under a contract...
Page 63 - Endorsement, shall have transferred to and vested in him all Rights of Suit, and be subject to the same Liabilities in respect of such Goods as if the Contract contained in the Bill of Lading had been made with himself.
Page 14 - Where the seller delivers to the buyer the goods he contracted to sell, mixed with goods of a different description not included in the contract, the buyer may accept the goods which are in accordance with the contract and reject the rest, or he may reject the whole.
Page 118 - NB — Corn, fish, salt, fruit, flour, and seed are warranted free from average, unless general, or the ship be stranded — sugar, tobacco, hemp, flax, hides and skins are warranted free from average, under five pounds per cent., and all other goods, also the ship and freight, are warranted free from average, under three pounds per cent, unless general, or the ship be stranded.
Page 160 - Surprisals, Takings at Sea, Arrests, Restraints and Detainments of all Kings, Princes, and People, of what Nation, -Condition or Quality soever...
Page 117 - ... until she hath moored at anchor twenty-four hours in good safety; and upon the goods and merchandises, until the same be there discharged and safely landed.