Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 05 (of 10)American School of Correspondence
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Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 05 (of 10)
American School of Correspondence
Accounting; Business; Commerce
Fig. 26 illustrates a form used in one factory for a distribution of
time records where men are employed on different kinds of work in
different departments, and on both day wage and piece work plans. In
this form provision is made for the record in each department, and each
day's record is divided between time and piece work. Several lines are
set aside for each employe, so that the record will be complete for each
kind of work. At the extreme right, department totals are extended.
These are quickly calculated for the reason that while an employe may do
different kinds of work and in different departments the same operation
is not performed in more than one department. To provide for records of
more kinds of work this principle can be carried still farther by
allowing more space for each employe, and in some cases a full sheet is
assigned for each. In one factory the pay-roll book is loose leaf, one
sheet being used for each employe. Each side of the sheet holds the
record for two weeks, and by using both sides, it gives a complete
record for four pay-roll periods.
=29. Combined Pay-Roll and Check Register.= Many industries pay their
employes by means of checks instead of in currency. Special pay checks
are used which merchants willingly cash as an accommodation to their
customers. Whenever the check system of payments is adopted it is best
to carry a special bank account for the purpose. When the amount of the
pay-roll is determined, a check should be drawn on the regular bank
account and deposited in a special fund against which the pay checks
will be drawn.
Fig. 27 shows a form, designed for the use of a concern paying by check,
which combines a check register with the pay-roll record. Since all
checks drawn against this special fund are pay checks, this register
gives a complete record of the special bank account.
[Illustration:
Fig. 27. Combined Pay-Roll and Check Register
]
[Illustration:
A TYPICAL GRAIN ELEVATOR IN CHICAGO HARBOR, WITH A MODERN FREIGHTER
READY FOR LOADING
]
TRUSTEES AND EXECUTORS' ACCOUNTS
=1.= From the accounting standpoint, business can be divided into two
general classes: (a) Business conducted by the owner or a person
appointed by him for the benefit of the owner; (b) Business that is the
property of persons incapable of transacting business, necessitating the
appointment, by the owners or other authority, of persons to transact
business in place of the owner. It is with business of the latter class
that we now have to deal.
In this class the owner or proprietor is supplanted by the
_administrator_ of the business. The generic term _trustee_ applies to
the administrator, who also takes more specific titles, depending upon
the nature of the trust—as _executor_, _administrator_, _assignee_,
_guardian, receiver_, etc. He is subject to the powers granted by the
source of his appointment, and to the restrictions and requirements
imposed by law.
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