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The banker's sure guide; or, monied man's assistant. In three parts, viz. I. Tables of Interest for any Sum, at the current Prices of 2, 2 1/2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent. from 1 to 90 and 300 days; and from 1 Month to a Year, at 4ơ, 4 1/2, 4 Dsl, and 5 per Cent. II. Sundry Tables, shewing the Value of Annuities certain, and Annuities on Lives, founded on the most rational Probabilities; how to find the Value of two or more Lives, joint Lives, Reversions, Advowsons, Presentations, &c. in the most approved Methods now in use. III. A large and accurate Table of Commission or Brokerage, from 1/2 to 2? per Cent. rising progressively only 1/2 per Cent. at a Time. - Also, of 8, 9, 10, and 11 per Cent. which together may be readily applied to Exchanges to Ireland. To which is prefixed, by way of introduction, a new and comprehensive treatise on decimals: A concise new Method of equating the Stocks to one another, and how to calculate what Interest is made of the Money laid out in any of them; how to find the Value of Stock, &c. The third edition, enlarged and corrected. By S. Thomas, Author of the British Negociator, or Foreign Exchanges made easy.
Slack, Thomas, 1718 or 1719-1784.Date: 1772- Books
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Tables of interest, discount, annuities, &c. first published in the year 1724, by John Smart, and now revised, enlarged, and improved, by Charles Brand. To which is added an appendix, containing some observations on the general probability of life.
Smart, John, of Guildhall, London.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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Every man his own broker: or, a guide to Exchange-Alley. In which the nature of the several funds, vulgarly called the stocks, is clearly explained, and accurate Computations are formed of the Average Value of East-India Stocks for several Years, from the current Year. The Mystery and Iniquity of Stock-Jobbing is laid before the Public in a New and Impartial Light. The Method of Transferring Stock, and of Buying and Selling the several Government Securities, without the Assistance of a Broker, is made intelligible to the meanest Capacity: and an Account is given of the Laws in force relative to Brokers, Clerks at the Bank, &c. With Directions how to avoid the Losses that are frequently sustained by the Destruction of Bank Notes, India Bonds, &c. by Fires and other Accidents. With An Historical Account of the Origin, Progress, and present State of Public-Credit, Banking, and the Sinking-Fund. To which is now added a supplement, containing Rules for forming a Judgment of the real Causes of the Rise or Fall of the Stocks; and several useful tables of Interest, &c. The eighth edition, altered and enlarged. By Thoma Mortimer, Esq. Author of the Elements of Commerce, Politics, and Finances.
Mortimer, Thomas, 1730-1810.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Interest at one view, calculated to a farthing: at £2 1/2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, 4 1/2, 5, 6, 7, and 8 per cent. For £ 1000 to £ 1 for 1 Day to 96 Days; and for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 Months. With Rules and Examples to can up Interest at any Rate, by the said Tables. With a curious Table, whereby Standard Gold and Silver in Bars, is compared with the Courses of Exchange between Amsterdam and London. Also Tables for reducing the most common Gold Coins to Pounds, and the Contrary: Being very useful in receiving and paying Monies. What Interest is made per Cent. per Annum of any Purchase: For the Valuation of Annuities: And for casting up Bank-Stock, Annuities, &c. The seventeenth edition with additions. Carefully calculated and examined from the Press by Richard Hayes. To which is added a concise table, whereby to cast up Salaries and Wages speedily, and others of great Use in receiving and paying of Money, &c.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: 1781- Books
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A new and accurate book of interest in tables, calculated to a farthing; at 2 1/2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 per cent. From -1000 to -1 for 1 Day to 96 Days, and for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 Months. With easy Directions to cast up Interest at any other Rate by the said Tables: And Tables whereby Standard Gold and Silver in Bars, are compared with the Courses of Exchange between Amsterdam and London, shewing how much per Cent. is gained or lost on the intrinsick Value of Gold and Silver in Bars, at the usual Rates of Exchange: Also some other Tables, very useful in Receiving and Paying of Monies. The second edition, with additions. By Samuel Stonehouse, Author of the Treatise of Arithmetic, by Way of Question and Answer. To which is annex'd, tables shewing what any salary, from one Million per Annum, to one Pound per Annum, comes to per day; and what Interest is made per Cent. per Annum of any Purchase.
Stonehouse, S. (Samuel).Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]