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Simple New Bookkeeping
System Con Sove Deolers
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.flere's a simple bookkeeping system that will save time and- mgney for lumber and building supplies dealers who do both cash and charge businEss. -UARCO Incorporated, manufacturJr of business forms, said its monthly statement system will save as much as Q% "t the time normally required to send monthly bills to charge-account customers. It virtually eliminates the chance that the retailer will lose his recoid of a sale and thus forget to charge the customer for it.
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The system, is keyed to the use of a three-ply register form- to record all transactions. Although the aveiage imall retailer is not a trained accountant, proper handling of the three-ply sales slip.will efiable him to keep necessary records in minimum time. Here's what he should do with the copies : l. The "Customer's Invoice" is given to the customer at time of sale or delivered with th1 merchandise bv the driver.
.2. !" keep his ledger account, the retailer posts only the date, ticket number, and amount of sales^ from the "9S." -Copyl'- of the sales slip. After posting at the end of the day, office copies are filed permanently-in numerical sequence in a storage binder.
3. The "Statement Copy" is filed alphabetic4lly by customer's name in a desk hie.
At the end of the month, the customer's statement is prepared direct from the ledger account. Only the date of transaction, ticket number, and amount of sale need be written on the statement. Statement copies of sales slips are removed from the desk file and mailed to the custom-er for verification.
Preparing the monthly statement in such a simple way means a great time saving, UARCO pointed out. A second advantage is that customers almost never question charges, since they receive copies of all sales slip-. The third lmportant point is that the chance of error is reduced because