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Retail Profitability Accounting by David Fleisher David L. Fleisher, manager in our St. Louis office, has been with TRB&S since 1957. A major part of his professional career has been devoted to working with retail firms, and he has written and spoken extensively in the retail industry. He is the author of the chapter on management reporting in the Retail Accounting Manual published by the National Retail Merchants Association, and is presently participating in the Tobe Lecture series for graduate retail students at Harvard Business School. Mr. Fleisher holds a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering and a M.B.A. degree in Business Administration from the University of Michigan. He is a member of the Management Services Committee of the St. Louis Chapter of the Missouri Society of CPAs, a member of the St. Louis Retail Controllers Group and a member of the American Production and Inventory Control Society. «& **IMte- •*"•"** JB^- Touche, Ross, Bailey & Smart and its predecessor firms traditionally have been recognized as leaders in the retail accounting field. The vast majority of the major department stores in this country are numbered among our clients. They include Allied, Associated, Federated, Gim-bels, Macy's, May Company and Sears Roebuck in the category of national department store chains and several of the major independent department stores such as Gilchrist Company in Boston, Hudson's in Detroit, Miller's in Knoxville, H. C. Prange in Sheboygan, Nieman- Marcus in Dallas, Popular Dry Goods in El Paso and Rich's in Atlanta. In addition, our firm has among its clients several of the large retail discount firms, a number of major food chains and numerous specialty stores handling a variety of merchandise lines. Further evidence of the participation of Touche, Ross, Bailey & Smart in the retail accounting field is the efforts over the past 40 years of the late J. P. Friedman, John W." McEachren and Kenneth P. Mages, all TRB&S partners, in developing and updating the department store industry accounting manuals which have been a vital part of the department store industry figure exchange program. More recently, James Lynch, manager in our Boston office, was honored at the annual convention of the relatively young discount industry held in May, 1965 for his work in developing the first accounting manual and figure exchange for this industry group. Because of the large number of retailers in this country and their reasonably uniform operating characteristics, the retail industry has traditionally emphasized industry-wide finan- 8 THE QUARTERLY
Object Description
Title |
Retail profitability accounting |
Author |
Fleisher, David L. |
Subject |
Retail trade -- Accounting |
Personal Name |
Fleisher, David L. |
Portrait |
Fleisher, David L. |
Office/Department |
Touche, Ross, Bailey & Smart. St. Louis Office |
Citation |
Quarterly, Vol. 11, no. 4 (1965, December), p. 08-19 |
Date-Issued | 1965 |
Source | Originally published by: Touche, Ross, Bailey & Smart |
Rights | Copyright and permission to republish held by: Deloitte |
Type | Text |
Format | PDF image with OCR under text, scanned at 400dpi |
Collection | Deloitte Digital Collection |
Digital Publisher | University of Mississippi. Digital Accounting Collection |
Date-Digitally Created | 2009 |
Language | eng |
Identifier | Quarterly_1965_December-p8-19 |