BOOK-KEEPING BY MACHINERY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3030, 17 March 1917, Page 10

BOOK-KEEPING BY MACHINERY

With our rapidly dwindling man power, and its replacement by less skilled labour of both sexes, any mechanical means that will really help . business men should receive bcth close .and urgent attention. The advent of the hook-keeping machine is thereforo of special interest. Supplied with a key-hoard like a typewriter, and a flat writing surfaco to ensure easy matching 1 of all forms, and quick operation, coupled with tho attributes of an adding.'and, calculating machine, thw now 'device made by the Elliott I'ishcr Co. of'.U.S.A. is said .to be more than humanly.'perfect.'. .It is.claimod for it that it is direct in its ele'ar-cut savings, and automatic in its ;i-oyen accuracy. " It adds,.subtracts, computes, and analyses, and furnishes ocular proof of tho accuracy of, all its ligurcs, bcth in columns and across pages,' as well as a typed proof-sheet", of its .figures. Entries are made simulancously in the ledger, on the statement, -and, proof sheet or journal, and' all 'ire proven automatically—no calling biek, and no adding, up at the end of the r><;iith. In ail its operations its economies are so groat, that they should: prove ,of special interest to business men t»-rlay, to say nothing of losses prevented'by "error proof" accounting. With ;t we are told thcro are no . "trail balance" troubles. Each account is balanced ns it is posted. Mechanical proof of every entry, and every total is supplied, and it is so simple in operation that, it is stated, any clerk or typiste of average intelligence can become a skilled operator. Also, instead.of tho usual mountain of work at tho end of the month,, one's hooks aro balanced, all figures are added, and ".here is nothing-to-do-but-mail-the-bill.