Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...division would include the general office and accounting work, keeping all records having to do with the general functions of the organization, and the handing of the company's finances. It would start with the receiving and shipping records, include the book-keepers and clerks, tie up with the cost system, and extend through the office of the treasurer...
...There are only two things in business that count; one is cost and the other is sales. If your sales are ahead of your costs you are making money, if your costs are ahead of your sales, you are losing money, you are in the red, and somebody will get jumped on." It is in the accounting department that the facts of the business are discovered. It is there that the operating executives find out the progress that the company is making...
Consolidated Gas Co. Federal, state, county and municipal taxes cost the Consolidated Gas Co. of New York so much that it made only $59,592,551 net income in 1928, an increase of $7,282,394 over 1927. These taxes, totaling more than 24 million dollars, amounted to more than 17% of operating costs. Last week's report (the first since the merger with Brooklyn Edison Co.) put Consolidated in the billion-dollar class with total assets...
...years ago the coon-skin coat, at an initial cost of from two to six hundred dollars, was regarded as standard equipment by the sport-model type of undergraduate. Many were entirely happy but a few hopelessly envious and dejected without one. A large number of undergraduates would, however, tell their fathers that everybody was wearing one. Its vogue is passing, even among its erstwhile votaries. It would be pleasant to believe that it was being discarded because it was expensive. I am afraid this had nothing to do with it. Some undergraduate must have noticed that young...