Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 02 (of 10)American School of Correspondence
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Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 02 (of 10)
American School of Correspondence
Accounting; Business; Commerce
There will be certain men assigned to certain regular work, as in the
case previously quoted under the head of the Time─Keeper's Notebook,
where there were two pipemen for each drill outfit. If these men spend
their entire day of eight hours doing nothing but looking after the
water supply for the drills, a punch mark would be made above the
number of each of them on the card and opposite the figure 8, which
represents the hours worked. To the left of the eight, and in the same
line, and also in the vertical column opposite the word _Drills_,
another punch mark will be made. Again, opposite the letter _C_, which
is the key for the classification of drills, and in the column assigned
to each man, and below his name, another punch mark will be made. This
gives the workman full time, showing that he worked eight hours on
drill water supply and nothing else. Suppose the foreman worked three
hours on the general water system, three hours on the pumping station,
and two hours directing the repair of the water tank. There would then
be on the record a punch mark in his column opposite 3, 6, and 8; at
the left of 3 in the column headed _G_, another punch will appear; at
the left of 6 in the column _E_, another punch will be found, and still
another at the left of 8 in the column _F_. In the column under the
foreman's name, punch marks would be made opposite _E_, _F_, and _G_,
showing that he worked on these three classifications.
In the same way, the time and occupation of each man under this foreman
can be indicated, no matter how many changes he may make in his work
during the day. The time, however, is recorded only to the nearest
hour.
[Illustration: Fig. 6. Pipe and Steamfitter's Card, Showing Method of
Taking Time, and of Simultaneous Automatic Distribution.]
Provision is made in the lower left─hand corner, for the punching of
the date; and along the lower edge is the place for the recording of
the number of hours used in thawing the pipes, etc., and in providing
protection for them. This latter record was found necessary, because
the work on which these cards were used was done in an extremely cold
locality and continued throughout the entire year.
When the records are made in the field and are sent in to the office to
be transferred to permanent records, it is not necessary for the man
who made the record to be at hand to interpret his notes, as there is
absolutely no opportunity given him to allow his note taking to vary in
the least from day to day, the record being absolutely automatic.
PROCESS COST SUBDIVISION
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