A daily sales-and-profit notebook habit for small shopkeepers

Many small shopkeepers in the market do not know, at day's end, what profit they really made. Capital and household money get mixed and the shop never grows. Once a week in the evening, sit at the market tea stall or the association room. An experienced shopkeeper shows a simple notebook layout: today's sales, purchases and credit still owed. They also talk about keeping shop money and home money apart. Everyone writes for a week and compares notes the next. You need cheap notebooks, a place to sit, and one trader who is good with accounts.