counting houses
Financial record offices
A counting house is a building or room where a business keeps its financial records and conducts accounting—the place where money is counted and books are balanced.
The term is archaic, associated with 18th- and 19th-century commerce: The king was in his counting house, counting out his money.
Modern equivalents would be accounting department or back office.
- officeProfessional work location
- bookkeepingRecording financial transactions systematically
- double entryAccounting requiring offsetting records
- balance sheetAssets-liabilities-equity report
- ledgerFinancial record book
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- Baltic tradeLubeck, Hamburg, Bremen, Cologne, Riga
- early bankingmoney changers, moneylenders, moneylending, money lending, loans
- medieval trademerchant, merchant guilds, trader, craft guilds, guild
- merchantstraders, merchant, merchants, retailers, vendors
- bookkeeping historybookkeeping, ledgers, double-entry, balance sheets, journal entries
- trade storagestorage facilities, bulk storage, storehouses
counting housesalmshouses
Charitable housing for poor
poorhouses · charitable institutions · soup kitchens · hospices · orphanages
counting houseshouses of worship
Religious gathering places
churches · temples · chapels · monasteries · abbeys
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