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Bulletin HASKINS & SELLS 39 Book Review Leffingwell, William Henry. Office Management, Principles and Practice. (Chicago, A. W. Shaw Company, 1925. 850 p.). $5.00. The author is an associate of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a member of the Society of Industrial Engineers, a member of the Taylor Society, and president of The Leffingwell-Ream Company. The text which follows foreword and preface is divided into forty-eight chapters, under eight classifications, viz.: Theory and principles underlying office management, analysis of the problem of office management, standardization of the product, standardization of the plant, standardization of equipment and materials, standardization of methods, standardization of personnel and methods of control. The text is interspersed with sixty-seven charts, diagrams, and forms of considerable variety, to which there is a preceding index, and is followed by a bibliography appendix and a copious index of nine pages. This work is so comprehensive that a review can scarcely do more than touch the high spots in the hope of exciting that interest which the subject well deserves at the hands of many persons. It is not singular that the latter should be true, considering that since 1880 the ratio to population of persons engaged in all kinds of office and clerical work has increased sixfold. A careful reading of this work will profit any professional accountant, and especially will profit every professional accountant who has office management responsibilities. He surely will find in it many things which, if carefully studied, may well be applied to his own particular job. Incidentally, it might not be amiss for accountants who are engaged in widespread practice to take a leaf from the
Object Description
Title |
Book review [News items] |
Author |
Anonymous |
Subject |
Books -- Reviews |
Personal Name |
Davis, Pearce Crane Trant, William Marshall Gregory, James K. |
Office/Department |
Haskins & Sells. Seattle Office Haskins & Sells. Denver Office Haskins & Sells. Los Angeles Office |
Citation |
Haskins & Sells Bulletin, Vol. 08, no. 05 (1925 May), p. 39-40 |
Date-Issued | 1925 |
Source | Originally published by: Haskins & Sells |
Type | Text |
Collection | Deloitte Digital Collection |
Digital Publisher | University of Mississippi Libraries. Accounting Collection |
Date-Digitally Created | 2009 |
Identifier | HS Bulletin 8-p39 |