Up To Date Business by Seymour Eaton
3. (_a_) What provision is usually made for the redemption of
municipal bonds which have a long period to run? (_b_) What is
meant when we say that a certain railway is in the hands of a
receiver? (_c_) Give some of the advantages which stock companies
have over partnerships.
Chapters
- Chapter 1 Ch.1
- 2. If your indorsement is the first, write it about two inches from Ch.2
- 3. Do not indorse wrong end up; the top of the back is the left end of Ch.3
- 4. Write your name as you are accustomed to write it, no matter how it Ch.4
- 5. If you wish to make the cheque payable to some particular person by Ch.5
- 6. Do not carry around indorsed cheques loosely. Such cheques are Ch.6
- 7. If you receive a cheque which has been transferred to you by a Ch.7
- 8. An authorised stamped indorsement is as good as a written one. Ch.8
- 9. If you are indorsing for a company, or society, or corporation, Ch.9
- 10. If you have power of attorney to indorse for some particular Ch.10
- 11. It is sometimes permissible to indorse the payee's name thus, Ch.11
- 12. Do not write any unnecessary information on the back of your Ch.12
- 5. P of New York has sold goods, £1000, to G of Paris. Ch.13
- 3. The borrower's record and standing in the community and his Ch.14
- 5. The character of the merchandise owned by the borrower. What would Ch.15
- 1. Bills drawn by shippers on the houses to which the goods are Ch.16
- 2. Bills drawn by importers against commodities placed in brokers' Ch.17
- 7. One-name paper. Ch.18
- 1. What in a general sense is meant when we speak of the currency of a Ch.19
- 2. Enumerate some of the advantages afforded to the community and to Ch.20
- 3. A bank cheque is a demand order for money, drawn by one who has Ch.21
- 5. (_a_) A cheque has no date. Does this make it void? (_b_) How about Ch.22
- 6. How would you word a cheque to give to a person who is unknown at Ch.23
- 7. You are sending a cheque through the mails to John Brown, Ch.24
- 8. You identify A. B. at your bank. The cheque A. B. presented turns Ch.25
- 9. A. B. transfers a cheque to you by a blank indorsement. It is then Ch.26
- 10. What is meant by power-of-attorney? How should an attorney indorse Ch.27
- 11. If a note were about to be transferred to you by indorsement and Ch.28
- 12. Tell how you would receipt for a payment of a note. Why is not an Ch.29
- 13. Why are notes protested? Why is a formal protest sometimes desired Ch.30
- 14. If an indorser is compelled to pay a note, against whom has he a Ch.31
- 5. (_a_) Not necessarily so. (_b_) Such a cheque would under Ch.32
- 8. Yes. Ch.33
- 1867. The largest South African diamond yet found was worth $300,000, Ch.34
- 1. GREAT BRITAIN. Give as full an account as you can of the causes Ch.35
- 2. GREAT BRITAIN. England is said to be "a beehive of mercantile and Ch.36
- 3. GREAT BRITAIN. (_a_) Describe the foreign trade of Great Britain. Ch.37
- 4. FRANCE. (_a_) Describe the conditions which (1) conduce toward, and Ch.38
- 5. GERMANY. (_a_) Give an account of what Germany has accomplished in Ch.39
- 6. SPAIN AND ITALY. (_a_) Why are Spain, Italy, and Turkey sometimes Ch.40
- 7. RUSSIA. (_a_) Describe the social condition of the Russian people. Ch.41
- 8. INDIA. (_a_) Describe the present condition of the manufactures of Ch.42
- 9. CHINA. (_a_) Give an account of China's size, population, and trade Ch.43
- 10. JAPAN. (_a_) Describe the transformation which in recent times has Ch.44
- 1. AFRICA. (_a_) Describe the "partition of Africa." (_b_) Describe Ch.45
- 2. AUSTRALIA. (_a_) Describe Australia's "peculiarities." (_b_) Ch.46
- 3. SOUTH AMERICA. (_a_) Describe the social and political condition of Ch.47
- 4. CANADA. (_a_) Describe Canada's resources (1) in forest wealth, (2) Ch.48
- 5. THE UNITED STATES. (_a_) Describe the export trade of the United Ch.49
- 6. THE UNITED STATES. (_a_) Describe our cotton production and our Ch.50
- 1. Read the lessons as printed very carefully. The aim will be to give Ch.51
- 2. Books will not be necessary. The student, however, who wishes to Ch.52
- 3. Take up the papers of the course paragraph by paragraph and ask Ch.53
- 1. There is a bureau of the Treasury Department having charge of all Ch.54
- 2. Any number of persons, not less than five, may form an association Ch.55
- 3. The powers of the bank are limited to the discounting of promissory Ch.56
- 4. There can be no national banks anywhere of less capital than Ch.57
- 5. Shareholders are liable for the debts of the bank to an amount Ch.58
- 6. Each bank having a capital exceeding $150,000 must deposit in the Ch.59
- 7. Every bank in certain designated cities, called reserve cities, Ch.60
- 8. Each bank must keep on deposit in the treasury of the United States Ch.61
- 9. One tenth of the net profits must be carried to the surplus fund Ch.62
- 10. A bank must not lend more than one tenth of its capital to one Ch.63
- 11. Each bank must make to the comptroller not less than five reports Ch.64
- 12. Each bank must pay to the treasurer of the United States a tax Ch.65
- 13. Any gain arising from lost and destroyed notes inures to the Ch.66
- 14. The comptroller has the absolute appointment of all receivers and Ch.67
- 15. Over-certification of cheques is strictly prohibited, rendering Ch.68
- 16. National bank directors are by law individually liable for the Ch.69
- 2. Better facilities for borrowing. It is a common thing for a Ch.70
- 3. Limited agency of directors. A partner may pledge and sell the Ch.71
- 6. A retiring partner is still liable for existing debts. A Ch.72
- 1. Give some particulars in which the Bank of England differs from our Ch.73
- 2. A bank cheque is a demand order for money drawn by one who has Ch.74
- 3. You are sending a cheque through the mails to John Brown, Chicago. Ch.75
- 4. You identify A---- B---- at your bank. The cheque A---- B---- Ch.76
- 5. What is meant by power of attorney? How should an attorney indorse Ch.77
- 6. What is a certified cheque? Brown gives A an ordinary cheque for Ch.78
- 7. Show how all the banks of the United States are connected through Ch.79
- 9. A national bank has a capital of half a million. A customer asks Ch.80
- 10. Give some particulars of the liabilities of the officers and Ch.81
- 11. What is meant by borrowing money on _collaterals_? How is this Ch.82
- 12. Tell how it is possible for a young man of good character, but Ch.83
- 13. When rates are high bankers prefer to deal in long-time paper. Ch.84
- 14. Account for the fact that London is the financial centre of the Ch.85
- 15. Explain in detail the business of a note broker, giving some Ch.86
- 16. Enumerate the leading items of resource and liability in a Ch.87
- 17. A bank receives from the comptroller of the treasury $100,000 in Ch.88
- 18. Discuss fully the points which should enter into a proper estimate Ch.89
- 19. Give the successive and necessary steps in the formation of a Ch.90
- 20. Why are companies which properly exist and belong in one State Ch.91
- 21. Explain very fully the difference as to resource and liability Ch.92
- 23. What is the difference between a voluntary association, such as a Ch.93
- 24. Explain very fully the meaning of _Limited_ when it forms part of Ch.94
- 25. Is it legal to sell shares of stock and issue mortgage bonds upon Ch.95
- 1. (_a_) Give some particulars in which the Bank of England differs Ch.96
- 2. (_a_) What is a stock certificate? How does it differ from a Ch.97
- 3. (_a_) What provision is usually made for the redemption of Ch.98
- 4. (_a_) Tell how you would receipt for a payment on a note. Why is Ch.99
- 5. (_a_) What are the advantages to the banks of a city of their Ch.100
- 6. (_a_) Enumerate some of the abuses of rate discrimination in the Ch.101
- 7. (_a_) Give the particulars in which a warehouse receipt resembles Ch.102
- 1. (_a_) What is a contract? (_b_) What is the difference between a Ch.103
- 2. (_a_) When is it necessary that contracts be in writing? (_b_) In Ch.104
- 3. (_a_) What are the different kinds of warranties? (_b_) Suppose A Ch.105
- 4. (_a_) What is the difference between a public and a private Ch.106
- 11. GREAT PRIMER. Ch.107
- 2. _The lower-case_ } Ch.108
- 10. [Illustration] Matter wrongly altered to remain as it was Ch.109
- 16. [Illustration] Something foreign between the lines, or a wrong-font Ch.110
- 17. [Illustration] Line to be indented one _em_ of its own body. Ch.111
- 4. _Foundry proofs._ Ch.112