A commercial course 1. [antikvár]

PREFACEThere have been many books aiming at teaching Commercial Practice, and still more striving to teach English to Foreign students, but the present volume is, perhaps, unique in attempting to combine these aims, in trying, while giving an outline of English business organisation, to enlarge, the student's general vocabulary, to exercise him in grammatical constructions and to increase his power of expressing himself in English with ease and clearness.This book, the first of two volumes, covers the essential features of modern English business. It. glances briefly at England's position in the world of trade, at her industries and powers of production. Then, in more detail, it surveys the various functions of commerce, the work of the wholesaler and the retailer, the forms and the control of business organisation from the sole trader to the limited liability company. It discusses the work of the various departments of a business concern, gives hints on Commercial Correspondence with a variety of examples, examines the various methods of payment, traces the course and gives the documents of a home and of an export transaction.Throughout, an attempt has been made to smooth away the particular difficulties of the foreign student and to enlighten him on those matters where the commercial procedure of his country differs from that in England.Each section of the book is followed by copious exercises based on the subject matter of that section. Of these exercises the ones marked A are designed to increase the student's knowledge of English; those marked B to consolidate the work that he has done, by causing him to review what he has just read, to think about the issues involved and to arrange and express his thoughts in good, plain English.The vocabulary of this book has been very carefully controlled but not stringently limited. Its basis is the vocabulary of the four books of Essential English plus about 500 new words; but every one of these words is defined within the Essential English vocabulary in the Glossary on pages 326 to 343.So that this volume shall reflect as far as possible the conditions of business life of the country as it really is, we have included a judicious selection of the documents used in English Commercial practice. Moreover, many of the business letters included here are those actually used by some of the most5