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The Evaluation Of Common Stocks Of Chain Store Companies, Kenneth Van Es

Bachelors’ Theses

What factors are considered and discounted by purchasers of securities in evaluating the merits of established chain store common stocks?

The Just Price, James F. Quirk

Bachelors’ Theses

In a hearing before the Industrial Commission the president of the American Sugar Refining Company answered his inquisitors in this notable manner: "I think it is fair to get out of the consumer all you can, consistent with the business proposition." Now whether this gentleman felt that he was here laying down a canon of injustice or no, it is not our purpose at this place to discuss. But there is one thing concerning which he does not leave us in any doubt; we know how he fixes his prices-- get as much as you can. It shall be the …

Milwaukee's Public Markets, Arthur H. Kersten

Bachelors’ Theses

The aim and purpose of this research is to present the history and development of Milwaukee Public Markets and to point out the necessity of such form of selling in the economic world.

Every man depends on the farmer for food, and the marketing of the farmers’ product is of world-wide importance.

Chain-Stores And Their Relation To Present Day Advertising, Marion Helene Witmer

Bachelors’ Theses

Modern distribution is becoming a science. Standardization in buying and selling goods is approaching the precision already reached in producing goods. Just as machines are used in packing food and making dresses, so are machines used to sell this food and these dresses. Efficient production is making more goods with less effort in less time. Efficient distribution is selling more goods with less effort in less time. Chain-stores form the machinery of modern distribution. Each chain is a sales factory, where every effort is directed toward making more sales per person per day. Each store or link in the chain …

Cooperative Advertising, Mary Ellenbecker

Bachelors’ Theses

Cooperative, group, or association advertising is the common effort of competitors to increase their sales, improve market conditions, combat a common enemy, or in other ways to improve the industry in which they have a mutual interest by advertising.

It is an economical, effective way of influencing a market. The greatest difficulty in the way of increasing group advertising is the difficulty of organizing. To present a program to which competitors will subscribe, for joint action by individuals or firms which have habitually been antagonistic, requires a high degree of organizing ability combined with a great abundance of tact.

The Instalment Selling Plan In The United States And Its Social And Economic Consequences, Leo Frederick Barden

Bachelors’ Theses

Instalment Selling is a vital current problem. Assumptions and facts are presented to the reading public by proponents and opponents of the system. Opponents of instalment selling are as outspoken with their criticism as supporters are with their praise. Our trade magazines are filled with articles of such nature. "Instalment is a perverted, species of speculation and cheap money," or "Instalment is the balance wheel by which production and distribution are equally maintained." This manuscript is written with a desire to help those, who are wrestling with this economic and social problem, a problem of great significance during a period …

Air Transportation, Ralph N. Hoh

Bachelors’ Theses

A little more than ten years ago, flying was regarded by all but the most daring as an extremely dangerous art and one having no practical value. This condition of thought was to be rapidly changed, for the coming of the World War gave to aviation the impetus that was eventually to make this mode of transportation one of the very great importance in our daily lives.

The Effect Of The Federal Reserve Rediscount Policy On Credit Expansion, J. D. Felker

Bachelors’ Theses

History and Purpose of the Federal Reserve Act -- In order to make the subject of this thesis more clear it is deemed necessary to give a brief history of the Federal Reserve Act and System.

The Effect Of Federal Income Tax Legislation On Accounting Theory And Practice, Paul Raidy

Bachelors’ Theses

"The income tax is a tax levied or imposed on income, gain, or profits. It is fundamentally different from other established forms of taxation, such as excise and property taxes, in that the underlying theory of the tax is based on the assumption that the taxpayer shall contribute to the cost of government tn proportion to the gain or profit he has realized either through a return or yield on wealth or because of productive effort."

Reorganization Policy Of The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, Rudolph Schmitt

Bachelors’ Theses

In setting forth the reorganization policy of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, it was decided to do so in a more or less chronological order, using as a starting point the month of January, 1925. The reason for this procedure is that the topic can best be developed step by step as the various incidences took place. It is more logical and natural to study a way of remedying a thing after one knows the why and wherefor. Similarly, a doctor first makes a diagnosis of a case before attempting to prescribe a means of relief. In this …

Working Women Of The Orient, Harriet Schilling

Bachelors’ Theses

The lot of women is not an easy one in the Orient. One of the distinguishing features of life in Eastern lands is the relation of women to manual labor. Nothing can be more significant in determining woman’s real intellectual and social status.

Financing And Accounting For Retail Automobile Dealers, Louis R. Schultz

Bachelors’ Theses

In preparing this work upon the accounting and financing methods in use by retail automobile establishments, the writer realizes full well the vastness of the problems and the wide field to be covered in preparing such a work. To attempt to cover it in its entirety would require a much more comprehensive knowledge of the subject than it is possible to obtain thru the media at hand, and in addition it would require that the problem be looked at thru the eyes of a prophet. The development that has been made so far is only the beginning of a far …

Scientific Management As Applied To The Personnel Department, Bauer Mohr

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the intention of the author to offer in this thesis a new point of view in dealing wit~ men in industry. Modern executives are coming ·to realize that their workers are not a ·bulk mass but a group of individuals. They are recognizing, that these workers differ in things they are fitted to do and are capable of doing; also that they differ in their interests, ambitions, and the thing that seem most desirable; and as men of differing capacities and desires they require individual adjustment to the opportunities offered them in the field of industry.

Accounting As An Administrative Aid, R. N. Merten

Bachelors’ Theses

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A Specialized Accounting System, M. Jerome Sullivan

Bachelors’ Theses

While "'e can trace the beginning of accounting back to

the ancients, it was not until recent times that modern accounting as we know it was devised. Until the birth of the machinery age, transactions of buying and selling and exchange of money were adequately served by the simplest of systems. When big industries; employing numerous men began dispatching work, accounting became a complex problem. Not that alone but the rapid multiplications of such industries increased the problems. and it soon became apparent that accounting was the most difficult task that had as yet faced the accounting world. Costs of …

Cost Accounting For A Shoe Manufacturing Corporation, Raymond J. Mularky

Bachelors’ Theses

In general, there are two broad divisions in which cost accounting systems can be placed, they are: the detailed and correct system, and the estimated system. In the modern shoe manufacturing industry, there seems to be only one system that can be used satisfactorily, and that is the estimated cost. Exceptions to this are where the shoe factory makes but one line or style of shoes. There are several reasons why a detailed cost system cannot be used in a shoe factory.

The Wholesale Marketing Of Food, Harold F. Loock

Bachelors’ Theses

Wholesaling is the gathering together in large quantities of products of varied sorts and from widely separated sources. The collection of such commodities by large shipments works for a lowered transportation toll and constant reservoirs of supplies at natural distributing centers "A wholesaler may be defined as a dealer who buys in large quantities and sells, generally in smaller quantities, to other dealers."

Real Estate Organization In The City Of Milwaukee, Lorin Tiefenthaler

Bachelors’ Theses

Little has been written on the subject of real estate in Milwaukee. This subject is far too broad to be covered by one brief investigation; consequently, the topic herein covered will treat merely of the organization of the real estate within the city proper.

The Financial Statements Of A Corporation And Their Relation To Credit Granting, Stanley Kemmeter

Bachelors’ Theses

Credit men in the part did not concern themselves with the Financial Statement. They relied on other methods of obtaining information about the credit risk. It has only been in the past few decades that the Financial Statement has come to be looked upon as a method of determining the credit worth; and it has not been until recent times that the credit man has looked upon the statement as being of any value except as supplementary data. The complexity of our business world and the need for a true estimation of a debtor's credit worth has led to the …

The Economic Theories And Policies Of The American Federation Of Labor, Arthur Margoles

Bachelors’ Theses

The writer has felt that his problem as concerned with the search for the actual attitude of the Federation, not a determination of its limitations or criticism of its policies, and with this viewpoint in mind he has centered most of his investigation upon partisan sources and actual Federation propaganda. He has, however, attempted to get a broad outlook upon their views by a study of other sources more critical.

Education And Progress In The Profession Of Accountancy, Samuel Letwin

Bachelors’ Theses

The growth of business as a profession has been largely a growth of American industry. It is because of industry and business that our schools, colleges, and standards of education have been made possible; and it is to business and industry that we must in the future look to our continued growth along educational and scientific lines. Business therefore merits the dignity and respect accorded the recognized professions. Business is not a new farce in the world, it is only its present prominence that is without precedent. Modern business governed by economic forces and social obligations is the force on …

The Effect Of Recent Legislation Upon Acounting Practice, Basil A. Molseed

Bachelors’ Theses

Accountancy is one of the newest of modern professions but has been brought before the American public very forcibly during recent years. Professions of every nature as they become more important are subject to more or less restrictions and regulations by the government.

Workmen's Compensation With Special Application To The State Of Wisconsin And The Province Of Ontario, Canada, James T. Ray

Bachelors’ Theses

The expression "Workmen's Compensation" has several different meanings and applications. However, in this particular instance it will carry a significance relating to the workman in his every day environment while fulfilling his duty to the employer.

A Comparative Study Of Accounting Systems As Used In The Shoe Stores In The City Of Milwaukee, Russell W. Van Deuren

Bachelors’ Theses

Before any policy, as to accounting or stockkeeping methods, can be set up to govern any phase of the shoe industry, it is necessary to take into consideration all of the conditions prevailing at the time such policy is established. In the shoe business we have on one hand, the manufacturer, turning out large quantities of merchandise and trying to force this merchandise out of his stock rooms on the retailer. While on the other hand we have the consumer, educated to a better knowledge of styles, and greatly Interested in price because constant bargain sales have taught him that …

Cost Accounting In A Bakery, Roman J. Zech

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the purpose of this thesis to present a system which will adequately present this necessary cost data. In the first two chapters of the thesis is discussed the system of controlling day-to-day loss items; while the last three chapters undertake the presentation of a method of cost finding which is accurate and can be easily practiced in medium sized concerns.

Standard System Of Accounts For Electrical Contractor's And Dealer's, Carl J. Strang

Bachelors’ Theses

The field of the electrical contractor and dealer is at the present time still in its infancy, but due to the increasing growth of the electrical industry it evolves upon the contractor and dealer to make some rapid and radical changes in their policies and methods of business procedure.

French Indo-China In Its Relation To American Trade Expansion In The Orient, Edgar Theiler

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis seeks to accomplish three main purposes: First, to show the need of America for new markets; second, to encourage American trade in the Orient; and, third, to submit a plan whereby the United States could acquire French Indo-China and establish an entrepot in the Far East for American foreign trade. The plan proposed is a complete and unconditional transfer of French Indo-China to the United States as payment for the French war debt and accrued interest. In the analysis of the financial situation of France, much stress has been laid on the reference: "The French Debt Problem"-by H. …

Selection And Placement Of Workers, Harold Rohde

Bachelors’ Theses

Employing desirable help is one of the most important functions of an establishment, yet in many concerns very little attention is given to the matter. It is often done in a haphazard manner; employees are selected hurriedly and are not suited for the positions, while others are turned away who would have become valuable assets to the concern. Quite frequently the employment is done by various members of the firm, or by heads of departments who have given no thought to the employment problem and the employees include every possible type.

The Business Getting Activities Of Banks, Frank Kasper

Bachelors’ Theses

There are men who can remember the time when all bank officers wore whiskers. The President of the bank was clothed in solemn black and cultivated a sad sorrowful manner. Usually the affairs of the bank were handled by a family, the son being cashier, and a near relative, vice president.

Advertising - A Necessity Of All Sales, Viola Lois Risch

Bachelors’ Theses

The rapid progress in advertising during the last century has caused many people to accuse this brand of marketing of being new and experimental, and to overlook the part it played in the earlier growth of business. Advertising and the selling of goods have been associated with one another for more than two centuries. With the advent of machinery and the improvement of labor conditions the sudden and voluminous increase in production required a corresponding increase in markets, and so the selling problem--the problem of getting rid of the manufactured goods arose.