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Tax Shelters: Economic Stimuli Or Media Of Inequality, Charles M. Hull

Graduate Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Security Price Forecasting, Ralph J. Nebbia

Graduate Thesis Collection

The purpose of this paper is to develop a new and practical technique for improving the art of forecasting security price movements. The desire to forecast stock market fluctuations have led many analysts to employ different predicting tools.

College Recruiting For Managerial Talent, Ronald Forrest Weaver

Graduate Thesis Collection

The purpose of this thesis report is to make a critical examination of the basic factors, together with their interrelationships, which are involved in college recruiting of students with managerial potential.

The ultimate objective of this analysis is to provide a theoretical and factual basis for establishing or improving a managerial recruiting program.

An Empirical Investigation Of Collective Bargaining Theories, Stephen Francis West

Graduate Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Accounts Receivable Numbering For Indianapolis, James O. Anderson

Graduate Thesis Collection

Having presented the "basic numbering systems" the writer ettempts to draw on his department store background, research materials, and personal interviews with well informed business executives, in order to present meaningful facts in a logical sequence as to their application to the numbering of Indianapolis accounts.

In the final analysis account numbering in this thesis will apply specifically to the assignmentof an individual number to each customer's account in the Accounts Receivable Depertment of a department store or stores. As background information, however, the writer will draw extensively on the experiences of banks in order to establish a sound basis …

Corporate Proxies, Lyle A. Anderson

Graduate Thesis Collection

In this paper, I shall discuss the requirements of obtaining valid proxies under the various state laws and the regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Because of the many state jurisdictions involved, it is not possible to define exactly the requirements of each. However, I shall follow the general practice and attempt to point out the significant variations therefrom. I shall also point out how several recent proxy contests were waged and make some recommendations for changes in SEC regulations and state laws to secure a greater voice for the independant stockholder.

A History Of Band Instrument Manufacturing In Elkhart, Indiana, Charles Vandeveer Reed

Graduate Thesis Collection

In the United States, in 1953, the manufacture of band instruments in well established with a large part of the industry centered in Elkhart, Indiana. Three major problems will be considered in this thesis: Why the band instrument industry was started in Elkhart, what factors led to the growth and expansion of the industry, and why, after almost eighty years, Elkhart has retained its prominence as the nation's band instrument center.

The Effects Of The Corporate Refinancings Of 1936 And 1946 On The Net Income Of The Indianapolis Water Company, John Frederick Bowers

Graduate Thesis Collection

It is an accepted fact that the Net Income of the Indianapolis Water Company was increased by the corporate refinancings of 1936 and 1946. However, no detailed study has been made, to date, to show the amount of the increase either in aggregate or in annual amounts. The writer thought such a study would be informative and interesting and the result of his study is presented herewith.

The Business Of Life Insurance Among Negroes, Samuel Southern

Graduate Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

The Increase In Rates, Amounts, And Complexity Of The Federal Income Tax And The Importance Of Accounting, Frank R. Demmerly

Graduate Thesis Collection

The author felt that a short history of world income taxes including the earlier American eras would provide a strong foundation on which to build the development of the present Federal income tax structure. With this end in view, chapter one is devoted to this background. The rates of taxation and the amounts of income on which these rates are effective have, of course, varied from year to year. The problems arising in connection with these categories are discussed in the second chapter from the standpoint of the different returns filed. The third chapter presents the varied complex problems that …

The History Of The Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, Dudley Diggs Davis

Graduate Thesis Collection

Such a study should throw light on a number of questions of social import: Can a co-operative be a success, from a purely business point of view? What is the effect of a co-operative organization on capitalist business? What effect, if any, will a co-operative have on prices? Are co-operatives subject to mushroom development and doomed to a short life? What aro the factors which lie behind the organization of a co-operative? Do co-operatives serve their members and patrons better than capitalist businesses? What are the social effects of co-operative associations? This thesis answers these questions insofar as the history …

The Movement Toward Unemployment Insurance In The United States, William T. Davis

Graduate Thesis Collection

The subject of unemployment insurance legislation is a timely and highly controversial one. In order to evaluate the movement it is desirable to understand the development of the theory and to investigate the early attempts to secure unemployment legislation in America and in Europe.

A Survey Of Poor Relief In Indiana, Carl G. Schmid

Graduate Thesis Collection

It is the opinion of many competent students of social problems that, even though this country experience an economic recovery during the coming years that surpasses the most optimistic forecasts, we shall still be confronted with an army of unemployed numbering in excess of 5 million persons.

The History And Development Of The American Business Corporation Before 1800, Lyle L. Mabe

Graduate Thesis Collection

An attempt has been made by the author in the pages which follow to show the development in a rather detailed manner of the American business corporation previous to and through the eighteenth century. The early chapters of this work have seemed advisable because they give the reader a general background which the author believes is beneficial in interpreting the latter part of the work.

Marketing Of Surplus Milk, Eric Sonnich

Graduate Thesis Collection

The purpose of this study is to examine the situation of milk supply as it occurred in the past as well as the present day market situation. The early efforts of milk organizations to deal with surplus milk and their methods have been compared with methods which are in use and which are proposed for use to regulate the present market.

Some Historical And Economic Aspects Of The Federal Income Tax In United States, Marguerite Lamar

Graduate Thesis Collection

This thesis entitled "Some Economic and Historical Aspects of the Federal Income Tax Laws" with special emphasis on the 1928 Revenue Act, is divided into three main divisions, namely, first, historical development of federal income taxation in United States, second, income, as viewed by the economist, accountant, and the court, and lastly, the deductions permitted to be taken from gross income in arriving at net taxable income.