Accounting Books at Paperstone
Paperstone provides a full compliment of accounting books and accounting stationery to ensure your small business neatly logs all your company finances. We supply account books from esteemed makers including Guildhall, Collins and Twinlock:
- Account books – to log business purchases, pay, tax, costs, profits
- Salary and wage books – for summarising the pay and tax of various numbers of paid employees, covering overtime, pension schemes, statutory sickness and maternity leave
- Petty cash books and cash receipts – to record and track purchases of tea, biscuits and such
"In the name of God enter in the Journal the first item of your Inventory which is the quantity of money that you possess." – Luca Pacioli (1494)
Accountancy – the essentials
- Tuscan-born maths bod and Franciscan friar Luca Pacioli is popularly (we use the word advisedly) considered the father of accounting, although he codified rather than invented the double-entry accounting system used by Venetian merchants during the Renaissance. In his 1494 Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalita, he outlines the practice of balancing debits and credits in the ledger, the accounts book.
- But evidence of accountancy has been unearthed by archaeologists from the most ancient remains of Jericho, “the oldest city on earth.” Seems like accountancy is just about as old as civilisation itself.
- The word “account” enters English from Old French, both as noun and verb, around 1300: “This child... Servede a burgeys of the toun, and his acountes wrot” (Life of Beket).
- In Mel Brooks' 1968 film The Producers Leo Bloom uses the term “creative accounting”. This pre-dates the Oxford English Dictionary's earliest citations (1973) for the term.
“Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.” – Sir Charles Lyell (American Accountant, 1797-1875)
Help with your company accounts
“Q: What does an accountant use for birth control?
A: His personality.”
Whether its keeping track of that petty cash, recording and tracking business transactions or managing your payroll, you'll find the accounting book that meets your need here. Click on a picture above to explore our range. And if you get stuck, give us a call on 020 7462 7800.
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