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Definition of Discounts
1. discount [v] - See also: discount
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discounts
Literary usage of Discounts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Auditing Theory and Practice by Robert Hiester Montgomery (1912)
"Cash Discounts: Where it is customary to permit trade debtors to deduct a ...
Where the items are strictly cash discounts, and are not permitted if the ..."
2. The Publishers Weekly by R.R. Bowker Company, Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association (1892)
"AS TO Discounts AND COLLECTIONS. WE doubt whether retailers generally give ...
Their claim is that the extra discounts which prompt cash payments secure, ..."
3. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1888)
"TRADE Discounts. That elementary form of cooperation where the members of an
organization buy at reduced prices for cash, by agreeing to concentrate their ..."
4. Accounting Theory and Practice by Roy Bernard Kester (1917)
"This analysis is believed to offer the best explanation of cash discounts.
In this work they will, therefore, be treated as financial management items. ..."
5. The Fundamentals of Accounting by William Morse Cole, Anne Elizabeth Geddes (1921)
"Enter in the cash book the following transactions subject to these discounts,
and show what postings would be made from it, not showing discounts forfeited, ..."
6. The Applied Theory of Accounts by Paul-Joseph Esquerré (1914)
"Trade discounts 2. All expenses which the vendor had agreed to stand in order to
... Cash Discounts Economically speaking, cash discounts given and received ..."
7. Money and Banking by John Thom Holdsworth (1917)
"Attention has been drawn, also, to the close relation existing between loans or
discounts and deposits. The bank's loanable funds come mainly from deposits ..."
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