This is yet another accounting machine. Tlus is used to maintain au account of cash sales. Generally, these machines are used by stores etc. wlucll have large amount of daily sales. The operation of these machines is very simple, whenever a customer comes to the counter With different items he has purchased the cashregistenng tnachineoperator sets tlleprice of different items pmcliase in the machhle and al the end pushes abuttoil and out comes a paper slip which s1mNvs prices of different items and the total Thts slip can seine the purpose of a Cash Memo also. The total of all :*e sales during the 4av keeps on accumulating in the machine with the result that the total of daily sales can be found out byjost haN-ing a look at the wittdowNs or paper slip of cash registering machine and the cashier. no tally his cash there and then. • : '
Bill Machines. Billing machines are used to prepare imoices, bills, cash-memos, bills of lading, etc. These machines are combination of roller tN pee typewriter and calculators These machines can type Otlt details of goods sold etc. and make all calculations of discount and comtnission and can do addition and subtraction of amounts of different columns of bills. im-oic-.. etc. Billing machines , cash-memos are fed into these machines e! the syste,m of continuous stationers- i e for typing a new cash-memo em there is no need to insert fresh set of papers and carbons in the rnachire
new set automatically gets inscned in the machine when the earlier se _bc taken mrt.
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A special arrangement of cards is designed for en ery job to be c;.e the machine The nr.Zchine has three units Punchj Sorter and Tabr is- data first is registered in the tabulating cards in the form of paunchy h.2 A. means of a manual or an electrical punching machine- When the pmrcl---has been connpleted, die cards are arranged in a desired sequence or Beau _ according to the information pouched in them -A Sorting -liachiZZe or Sorter) helps in atrdugement or grouping This macliime operates automated at a high- speed Tlie Tabulating Macliine or the tabulator is a combir.ec un n of adding subtracting and printing units it automatically compiles pi punched data and gives a printed report
Obviously faith speed and aceura V this machine fimctions But ire work m Ust be large enough to just y the installation of such maclunes TO are costlier to install They need speaallv Rained personnel The data should be reliable enongb and appropriate processing should have been done befog. put to use, ,
ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS
These are general purpose machines whiclt are capable of performing almost all the clerical works at a high speed Thei- can effectively handle whole systems of operations, change automatically from one operation to another in a desired sequence, and even select alternative courses of action on the basis of the data received and the results of previous operations