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An Accounting System For Hospitals, M. R. Kneifl Jun 1924

An Accounting System For Hospitals, M. R. Kneifl

Bachelors’ Theses

The economic structure of moiety embraces every phase of human activities. It primarily concerns itself with enterprises of productive char­acter, those which directly fulfill and administer to the wants and needs of the individual, as such or as a group.


Borrowing Vs. Cash Payments As A Means Of Financing New School Buildings In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Francis J. Hart Jun 1924

Borrowing Vs. Cash Payments As A Means Of Financing New School Buildings In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Francis J. Hart

Bachelors’ Theses

In ancient times it appears to have been the practice, during times of peace, to make provision for the necessities of war--hoarding up treasures before hand to be used in conquest or defense a the occasion demanded. It was not then the custom to trust to extraordinary impositions of taxes to meet extraordinary demands, much less to borrowing the necessary funds.


New Form Of Capitalization, Joseph A. Dunn Jun 1924

New Form Of Capitalization, Joseph A. Dunn

Bachelors’ Theses

To fully understand the meaning and importance of no par value stock it is necessary to first briefly consider the nature of capital stock and its relative adaptability to the principles underlying both par value and no par value share.


Methods And Practices Of Commercial Research To Marketing Problems, Wm. Geo. Schendt Jan 1924

Methods And Practices Of Commercial Research To Marketing Problems, Wm. Geo. Schendt

Bachelors’ Theses

Modern Research is an ancient practice altho it has been classed as a modern development - a new step in the advancement of business toward a successful and profitable career. As it is of such importance to industry it takes in a multitude of activities and having passed thru it's introductory stages it is rather new in certain of it's forms.


Cost Accounting For A Malleable Iron Foundry, Edmund E. Mckune Jan 1924

Cost Accounting For A Malleable Iron Foundry, Edmund E. Mckune

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the purpose of this thesis to outline an effective cost accounting method of handling the various costs chargeable directly to the cost of production and the classifying of costs by departments in a medium sized malleable iron foundry.


Significance Of Labor Turnover, Albert L. Pfund Jan 1924

Significance Of Labor Turnover, Albert L. Pfund

Bachelors’ Theses

The instability of labor has always been a source of annoyance to commerce and industry. But, strange to say, in earlier days it was not thought of as anything more serious. As a general rule, there seemed to be an adequate supply of labor; and if one man quit, the solution was simply - get another. The question of labor turnover as thought of today, however, is one of comparatively recent origin. One of the first references to it was made only a few years ago by Professor John R. Commons, in an article on the "age Earners of Pittsburg", …


The Source And Development Of Labor Supply, Russell J. Broderick Jan 1924

The Source And Development Of Labor Supply, Russell J. Broderick

Bachelors’ Theses

The general trend of human nature has changed very little since the beginnings of society. Society is used here in a limited sense. It is used to denote the association of peoples and leads to the time when people became interdependent. In the same way it is possible to simmer down the first part of the above statement. When the time was reached when one man was more or less dependent on his brother, we find a conflict. In that we are dealing with a phase of labor known as personnel we call it a conflict of capital and labor.


The Trust Company In Modern Banking, Frank W. Carr Jan 1924

The Trust Company In Modern Banking, Frank W. Carr

Bachelors’ Theses

The trust company is a financial institution that has quite recently been developed to great importance here in the United States. It is essentially an American institution, there being practically no companies of this type in Europe, or the Orient. In the Latin-American Countries the same condition exists. With the possible exception of the Mexican Trust Company which is purely American in Foundation. While the history of trust companies in this country date back one hundred years, it is significant that they did not begin to acquire the national importance and volume of business they now command until twenty-five or …


The Federal Rural Credit Bank System And Its Operation, Raoul Lafrance Jan 1924

The Federal Rural Credit Bank System And Its Operation, Raoul Lafrance

Bachelors’ Theses

Agriculture, the production of food is perhaps the greatest and most universal pursuit of mankind. It is found and pursued in some form or other in almost every clime and by every civilized nation. In very few parts of the globe is mans food supply furnished gratuitously by nature. He is compelled to till the soil, domesticate certain beasts, to secure those necessaries of sustainance (sic). Because of the industries dependence on the conditions of nature, its attachment to the elements, the agriculturist can exercise little control over the production of the products of his industry. The throttle of his …


Accounts For The Handling Of Subdivisions, Raymond D. Illig Jan 1924

Accounts For The Handling Of Subdivisions, Raymond D. Illig

Bachelors’ Theses

The subject of, "Accounts for the handling of subdivisions" is still in its infancy,and in the writer's knowledge has never before been treated as a separate subject. Real Estate accounting of which subdivision accounting is a branch, has itself never been developed to any extent, either in this country or abroad, consequently there is very little literature on either subject.


The History Of Banking In Wisconsin, Matthew J. Coveney Jan 1923

The History Of Banking In Wisconsin, Matthew J. Coveney

Bachelors’ Theses

The business of banking is of great antiquity and in its simpler forms no doubt was understood and practiced by the Assyrians, Babylonians and Athenians. As the taking of interest for money lies at the root of all banking and furnishes the chief motive for it, wherever a people were sufficiently advanced to loan money for hire, there would naturally spring up many of the practices and methods of modern banking...


The Trend Of Foreign Trade With Argentina, Wallace Sawyer Jan 1922

The Trend Of Foreign Trade With Argentina, Wallace Sawyer

Bachelors’ Theses

The republic of Argentina is in size the third largest of the American republics. Because of its great length about 2200 miles, its climate and products range from the tropical to the arctic. It has an area of about 1,139,400 square miles. The physical characteristics of the country are generally vast plains with the exception of the western part which is broken up by the Andes Mountains.


The Value Of National Advertising To The Retailer, Alfred Watson Jan 1900

The Value Of National Advertising To The Retailer, Alfred Watson

Bachelors’ Theses

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Catalogues That Tell How, Elmer L. Hartmann Jan 1900

Catalogues That Tell How, Elmer L. Hartmann

Bachelors’ Theses

The most important factor in the production of a good catalogue is a perfectly clear idea as to exactly what the catalogue is meant to accomplish. It is often tritely said that a catalogue is to "sell goods." In truth, the best thing that a catalogue can do is to procure "an order" for goods but before this can happen some­ thing must occur after the receipt of the catalogue before any goods are actually sold, and that something generally happens in the mind of the buyer.


Street Railway Accounting, Arthur Duffy Jan 1900

Street Railway Accounting, Arthur Duffy

Bachelors’ Theses

Street Railway accounting is divided under two main heads, Outside and Inside accounting. Inside accounting is that accounting which is done in the main office after the material has been assembled from the different outside sources. It is very similar to the accounting tor any other large corporation.