Possible Clues:

• Chef admits organising bash for one of those in accounts
• Money for a passage to India handled by accountant
• Spooner's hit someone in the kitchen -- volume of bread here
• Spooner to attack chef: record number of beans here
• Written account of money paid and received for Notes on Ulysses
• Pencil letters and round figures in vessel's ledger
• Financial record of money reserve
• Volume of money transacted