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BARTER AND CURRENT CASH EQUIVALENTS
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BARTER AND CURRENT CASH EQUIVALENTS book
of account. For a brief period during the interregnum
BARTER AND CURRENT CASH EQUIVALENTS
DOI link for BARTER AND CURRENT CASH EQUIVALENTS
BARTER AND CURRENT CASH EQUIVALENTS book
of account. For a brief period during the interregnum
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1990
Imprint Routledge
Pages 4
eBook ISBN 9781315867519
ABSTRACT
Examples oj Bookkeeping Barter Bookkeeping barter requires a unit of account. For a brief period during the interregnum between Bligh's overthrow and the arrival of Macquarie even the accounts of the Commissariat were kept in wheat but this was exceptional. Usually 'the reckoning scale was money, and almost always pounds, shillings and pence' (Butiin, 1953, pp. 46, 26).