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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