Domingo Lopez, who owns a chain of five record stores in Jackson Heights and Elmhurst, Queens, also said he would end the stores' improper wage practices, revise bookkeeping methods and comply with labor laws.

The surplus money is used to buy Treasury bills; the surplus is also used as a bookkeeping method to offset the deficit.

Yes," he said, answering her unspoken question as to his own bookkeeping methods.

The request came after a state audit faulted the bank's bookkeeping methods, leaving enough assets in dispute that both sides are warning that Indonesia's lender of last resort faces insolvency.

The news helped send shares of Tyco up $3, to $51.50, nearly the level they were at in October of last year, before a prominent investment manager wrote a report in which he called the company's bookkeeping methods too aggressive.

Problems arose in 1807 between Sibley and the factor of Fort Bellefontaine, Rudolph Tillier when Sibley questioned Tillier's bookkeeping methods.

Ives helped to improve and modernize Currier's bookkeeping methods, reorganize the firm's inventory, and streamline production methods.

Weber, like his colleague Werner Sombart, regarded economic calculation and especially the double-entry bookkeeping method of business accounting, as one of the most important forms of rationalisation associated the development of modern capitalism.

The company said its quarterly results included an after-tax credit of $34.6 million in its merchandise group because of a lower-than-expected inflation rate and a $44 million income tax benefit stemming from a change in bookkeeping methods.

The authors argue that the budget deficit has been vastly exaggerated because of the Government's antiquated bookkeeping methods.