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Graphic Charts For The Business Man, Stephen Gilman Jan 1918

Graphic Charts For The Business Man, Stephen Gilman

Individual and Corporate Publications

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Principles Of Factory Cost Keeping, Edward Preston Moxey Jan 1918

Principles Of Factory Cost Keeping, Edward Preston Moxey

Individual and Corporate Publications

The book is offered to those interested along cost accounting lines, with the hope that it may help to a clearer understanding of the true aims of this important branch of accounting science.


Fundamentals Of Cost And Profit Calculation: A Vigorous Discussion Of The Vital Elements Of Business, Robert S. Denham Jan 1918

Fundamentals Of Cost And Profit Calculation: A Vigorous Discussion Of The Vital Elements Of Business, Robert S. Denham

Individual and Corporate Publications

The two most vital factors in business are Cost and Profit, but few there are who can, in any transaction, define the point where the elements of Cost cease to accumulate, and Profit becomes a reality. It is extremely important, now more than at any other time in the history of America, that business men know the cost of doing business, the cost of manufacture, the cost of distribution, and the extent of the profits in the business.


Manufacturing Organization, Hugo Diemer Jan 1918

Manufacturing Organization, Hugo Diemer

Individual and Corporate Publications

Probably 70 per cent of the manufacturers of the country would come at the present time under the heading of unsystematized management. In the unsystematized business the main feature is the annual statement which shows merely the results of the past year. The managers of the majority of manufacturing businesses do not know definitely whether they have made a profit or loss until months after the close of a fiscal year. Systematized management not only provides records but arranges these records into periodic departmental reports. This type of management shows the where, but does not specify the how. Scientific management …


Business Record System For Jewelers Endorsed By The Federal Trade Commission And The Associated Advertising Clubs Of The World; Facts : Four Simple Records With Simple Rules For Daily Knowing And Using All The Vital Facts Of Your Business; Business Record System For Retail Jewelers, Robert H. Ingersoll & Bro. Jan 1918

Business Record System For Jewelers Endorsed By The Federal Trade Commission And The Associated Advertising Clubs Of The World; Facts : Four Simple Records With Simple Rules For Daily Knowing And Using All The Vital Facts Of Your Business; Business Record System For Retail Jewelers, Robert H. Ingersoll & Bro.

Individual and Corporate Publications

YOU are interested in an accounting system for your store or you would not have asked for this booklet. The aim in this Business Record System is simplicity, directness and efficiency. To carry out this same idea, we will plunge at once into the working of this system without the usual booklet preliminaries of trying to fan your emotions up to "buying heat." What we want is to convince your common sense and reason in the interest of better business. This system is the result of the careful study of the needs and desires of the 20,000 representative jewelers in …


Budget Classifications And Rules Of Procedure For Departmental Estimates, Gilbert H. Hendren, Lawrence F. Orr, Walter G. Owens, Willard B. Gemmill Jan 1918

Budget Classifications And Rules Of Procedure For Departmental Estimates, Gilbert H. Hendren, Lawrence F. Orr, Walter G. Owens, Willard B. Gemmill

Individual and Corporate Publications

Standard account titles summarized and explained are: A. Personal Service, C. Supplies, D. Materials, E. Equipment, F. Contract and Open Order Service, G. Additions and Betterments, H. Fixed Charges and Contributions, I. Rotary Funds, J. Recapitulation, K. Departmental Report of Revenues and Expenditures. Original item in Boxno. 0409


Detection Of Frauds, Harold Benington Jan 1918

Detection Of Frauds, Harold Benington

Individual and Corporate Publications

Frauds in connection with accounts are very prevalent, and their detection is one of the most important functions of the professional accountant. During the course of over twenty years' active practice, the writer has come in contact with innumerable instances of fraud of every description, and it will be his endeavor in the succeeding paragraphs to outline the different kinds most usually encountered, how they can be detected, and what methods should be adopted to prevent them. Frauds in connection with accounts may be, broadly speaking, divided into two classes: (a) Those perpetrated with the object of concealing theft. (b) …


Uniform Cost System For Grinding Wheel Manufacturers, Henry Duckworth, Samuel P. Byers, Charles D. Shaw Jan 1918

Uniform Cost System For Grinding Wheel Manufacturers, Henry Duckworth, Samuel P. Byers, Charles D. Shaw

Individual and Corporate Publications

The system presented here for the Grinding Wheel Manufacturers is a simple one. In a few instances two methods of accomplishing the same purpose are given. In such cases one method will be found to give more detail than the other, but either will produce satisfactory results. Much of the data necessary for the operation of this system is undoubtedly being collected by grinding wheel manufacturers already. There are few manufacturers indeed who do not possess a payroll and ledger, and it is assumed that the grinding wheel manufacturer is as well provided with these two important books as the …


Practical Cost Keeping For Contractors: A Book Giving A System Of Accurate Cost Keeping And The Methods Used For Adapting It To All Classes Of Construction Work, Frank Rabold Walker Jan 1918

Practical Cost Keeping For Contractors: A Book Giving A System Of Accurate Cost Keeping And The Methods Used For Adapting It To All Classes Of Construction Work, Frank Rabold Walker

Individual and Corporate Publications

In Present day competition among contractors of all classes of construction work, it is vitally important that the contractor, to be successful, should keep costs on the different branches of work performed by him. Costs stated in dollars and cents are not truly costs, for the reason that a cost in money in one locality may be absolutely worthless in another where wages are different.