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Durham, James S. (Sc 288), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 288. Account book, 1859-1868, of a general merchant at Saloma, Taylor County, Kentucky. Includes accounts of the sale of whiskey by the drink.

Brown, John H., 1832-1866 (Sc 285), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 285. Account book, 1856-1862, of John H. Brown, a Kentucky-born druggist doing business in Cairo, Illinois. Includes accounts of customers designated “Dutch sausage maker”; “Irishman, Big, who stays with little Scotchman”;” Washwoman”; “Sore mouth gentleman at Mr. Hanes,” etc.

Ua94/5/4 Student/Alumni Personal Papers Bowling Green Business University W.A. Whitlow, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Accounting books created by W.A. Whitlow for courses taken at the Bowling Green Business University.

Fennell Collection, 1869-1957 (Mss 348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 348. Account books of Cynthiana Horse Boot Company; materials related to Kentucky Hemp Brake Company of Cynthiana, Kentucky; correspondence of Cynthiana attorneys Chester M. Jewett, J. J. Osborne, William J. Osborne, McCauley C. Swinford, and William Wilson Van Deren.

Scott Tobacco Company - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1240), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1240. Correspondence, primarily between W. H. Mason, president of Scott Tobacco Company, and T. H. Baird, Adairville, Kentucky, concerning dividends, indebtedness, capitalization and other company matters. Includes correspondence of Baird relating to mail service from Adairville.

Sing, Sam (Sc 2342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2342.  Account book of Sam Sing, proprietor of a Chinese laundry in Bowling Green, Kentucky.  The book records types of garments and linens cleaned, and includes a price list printed in the 1880s.

Jones & Stevens - Account Book (Sc 248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 248. Account book for the Jones & Stevens general store located in Greencastle, Warren County, Kentucky. Index of accounts is located in the front of the volume, followed by the full accounts of the store’s customers. A label affixed to the ledger’s cover indicates that the volume was originally intended for recording information about Warren County court cases, but this was never done. The label is signed by James D. Hines.

Ua94/5/2 Student/Alumni Personal Papers Bowling Green Business University O.B. Carter Student Papers, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Business course homework materials of O.B. Carter, includes practice ledgers, journals, checks and bank statements for a General Mercantile practice company. Also included are a typewriting manual and penmanship letter.

Ua4/1 Acadmic Budgets & Administration - Reports, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Reports created by the office of Academic Budgets & Administration and its reporting offices:

• Academic Budgets
• Manager of Academic Resources
• PIE Grants Coordinator

Includes operating budgets and salary reports.

Goodwin, Lora (Sc 2390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collecction 2390. “Bookkeeping Units for a High School Boy, a Family, and High School Funds as Worked Out in Brackenridge High School, San Antonio, Texas,” presented by Lora Goodwin in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts at Southwest Texas State Teachers College, San Marcos, Texas.

Pruitt Grocery - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 214. Account book (276 p.) for the K.E. Pruitt Grocery in Halfway, Allen County, Kentucky. The accounts are for local individuals and list debits for grocery, gasoline and oil, dry goods, and hardware items.

Growing Up Financially Literate: A Lifelong Curriculum, Amanda J. Brown

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

This work ventures to find a solution to one source of economic instability: financial illiteracy. The inability to manage money, caused by a lack of education, has led to poor decision making. These bad decisions can lead to a number of financial hardships, as well as emotional and physical problems. Better education can combat all of these symptoms and lead to a healthier financial future. Growing Up Financially Literate attempts to help close the curriculum gap surrounding financial literacy by recognizing that the gap does not only exist in a single age group. Financial education cannot stop with any one …

Assessment Of The 'Accounting Cycle': Test Tools For The Accounting Professor, Nicole M. Swanson

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The two main goals of this thesis are to provide an assessment tool for accounting professors as well as a learning tool for students to gain a better understanding of the accounting cycle. Many students coming out of the basic accounting courses have a pretty good understanding of the different parts of the accounting cycle, but few have a solid understanding of the bigger picture and how each part fits together. I believe this is partly due to the fact that students in 200 level courses are never required to complete the accounting cycle from beginning to end. As such, …

Can We Make Accounting Relevant Again? Non-Traditional Accounting Systems Can Drive Productivity And Future Prosperity, Mark Doggett

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

The financial information used for operational decision-making is inconsistent and current accounting practices encourage tampering. Recent monetary events created turmoil in the stock market and uncertainty in investments. Furthermore, accounting methods seem ineffective in discouraging unscrupulous behavior. Because the financial health of business is measured using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), what other choices exist for measuring fiscal performance? This paper provides an overview on a few potential alternatives to current accounting practice. One such practice is lean accounting. The other accounting systems are Activity Based Costing (ABC), Throughput Accounting (TA), and Resource Consumption Accounting (RCA). This paper will refer …

Miller, William Makel, 1806-1886 (Sc 2049), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2049. Account book of William Makel Miller, Horse Branch, Ohio County, Kentucky, showing accounts rendered. Loose items found in book include a handwritten copy of Miller's will dated 10 March 1886. Also includes photocopy of a photograph of Miller and his wife from (Hartford, Kentucky) "Times-News," 19 August 1999.

James, George D., 1871-1940 (Sc 1770), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1770. Account book of George D. James's grocery store in Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky, 1914-1929, and copy of first bill he received when he opened the store in 1913.

Manning, Allen, 1864-1950 (Sc 1762), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1762. Journal of farm work done by Allen Manning and his co-workers for Mrs. Underwood of Warren County, Kentucky. He makes note of the weather and its effect on the crops.

How Do Characteristics Of Organizational Budgetary Systems Affect Employee Attitudes And Behaviors?, Holly Coover

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

This paper is a review of the literature that examines relationships between budgetary system characteristics and employee attitudes and behaviors. Articles were selected on the basis of several criteria: (a) they present studies that empirically examine the effect of one or more budgetary system characteristics on one or more attitudes and behaviors, (b) they were published in accounting and organizational behavior journals that are common outlets for empirical budgeting research, and (c) they were published in 1995 or later. Results of this review indicated that budgetary participation and budgetary justice are particularly important budgetary system characteristics that affect a variety …

Garrison Store - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 197. Account book kept for John W. Garrison’s store at Polkville in northeastern Warren County, Kentucky. Includes accounts for many county citizens of that region.

Greensburg, Kentucky, Account Book Collection (Mss 43), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 43. Account books of different firms and individuals in Greensburg, Kentucky, including records of general merchandise stores, a hotel, a tailoring shop, the Kentucky Stage Company, and a lodging stable.

Totty, Leonard, 1812?-1863? (Mss 36), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 36. Account books consisting of a journal of customer's account, 1848-1854, and a ledger, 1848-1858, of Leonard Totty, a general merchant of Doughty's Creek, Warren County, Kentucky.

Edwards & Cobb Collections (Mss 35), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 35. Account books, 1857-1858, of G.W. Edwards and T.W. Cobb, general merchants at East Fork, Metcalfe County, Kentucky.

Barker, S. & D. W. Middleton - Farm Ledger, 1872-1885 (Sc 1522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1522. Farm ledger kept by S. Barker and Daniel Wilcoxson Middleton of Warren County, Kentucky. The farm was located approximately five miles east of Bowling Green on the Louisville Road (Highway 31-W). Records expenses and wages for farm laborers.

Cooke-Crump - Smiths Grove, Kentucky - Account Books (Sc 1484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1484. Account books for a mercantile store in Smiths Grove, Kentucky. Included are long lists of horses and mules that were bought and sold by William Crump.

Crunching Numbers: A Critical Look At Annual Reports, Stephanie Caron

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

No abstract provided.

Full-Time Faculty Salaries By College By Rank & By Gender, Wku Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate

Report of full-time faculty salaries by college by rank and by gender for FY 2005-2006.

Robinson, Novice Camilla (Madison), 1891-1984 (Mss 158), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 158. Account book (472 p.) of Robinson's Flowers in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The floral shop was owned by Novice C. Robinson, and the account book includes customer's name, type of floral arrangment as well as the price.

Account Books (Sc 1445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1445. An account book, 1795-1800, evidently kept by someone in central/south central Kentucky. Entries pertain to land, children attending school, work done on a farm, settling of accounts, etc.

Ua62/4 The Western Worksheet, Wku Accounting

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by WKU Accounting and the Eta Omicron chapter of Beta Alpha Psi.

White And Roach Store - Greensburg, Kentucky (Mss 33), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 33. Account books, ledgers, and journal recording sales made from 1854 to 1867 by the White and Roach general merchandise store in Greensburg, Kentucky.