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A Contemporary Analysis Of The Growth, Effects, And Adjustments To Automation, James G. Frazer
A Contemporary Analysis Of The Growth, Effects, And Adjustments To Automation, James G. Frazer
Master's Theses
The objective of this thesis is to compile and analyze information on automation, beginning with its background and origin and continuing through various contemporary issues, directly or indirectly related to its development; namely, the need for automation in advancing our present-day society, socially and economically; the present-day uses and future expectations; factors standing in the way or automatic development; effects, both good and bad, attributed to automation by management, labor, and business; beliefs of management, labor and business as to the methods of adjusting these effects for the benefit of all mankind; and the question concerning automation's being the primary …
Automation In Accounting Through Electronic Data Processing, John Edward Traylor
Automation In Accounting Through Electronic Data Processing, John Edward Traylor
Master's Theses
Similar to the Industrial Revolution with its impact on factory management during the early nineteen hundreds is the electronical means of processing data to the office. This new era in office and accounting procedure has opened the door to many new systems in the processing of paper. For the first time in the history of man we are able to do these things:
1. Present timely reports to management of large-scale operations.
2. Eliminate present manual and machine methods with their undesirable elements of inaccuracy.
3. Eliminate the necessity of writing down an element of information more than once.
4. …
Conversion Of Disbursing To Tabulating Operation, Cecil A. Brown
Conversion Of Disbursing To Tabulating Operation, Cecil A. Brown
Master's Theses
The purpose of this paper is to present to the reader the actual problems encountered, and their solutions, in converting a large check-writing operation to an "automatic" tabulating machine process. It should be noted that this paper covers a change of procedure in a Disbursing Department, other than the introduction of tabulating equipment, resulting in "automatic" machine check writing. To do this, the function of the Disbursing Department is briefly summarized and the original system of operation prior to 1 November 1955 is described. The development of a new system of paying Accounts Payables is then explained along with the …