. The Street railway journal . t the meeting heldin Denver, Aug. 10, 1899. Your committee asks this associationto indorse and approve what they have done by ratifying and con-firming their action and adopting this report as presented. Respectfully submitted for the committee, C. N. Duffy, Chairman. ^» Supplementary Report of Committee on a StandardSystem of Street Railway Accounting: Mr. Duffy also presented a supplementary report in the con-vention as follows: Chicago, Oct. 18, the Members of the Street Railway Accountants Associationof America: Gentlemen—In addition to the printed re
. The Street railway journal . t the meeting heldin Denver, Aug. 10, 1899. Your committee asks this associationto indorse and approve what they have done by ratifying and con-firming their action and adopting this report as presented. Respectfully submitted for the committee, C. N. Duffy, Chairman. ^» Supplementary Report of Committee on a StandardSystem of Street Railway Accounting: Mr. Duffy also presented a supplementary report in the con-vention as follows: Chicago, Oct. 18, the Members of the Street Railway Accountants Associationof America: Gentlemen—In addition to the printed report made by yourcommittee and presented to this convention, we desire to presentfor your consideration other questions in connection with thestandard system of accounting, not touched upon in the printed re-port. First—Construction and Equipment Account—H—Invest-ment Real Estate. The instructions classifying this account read,Charge to this account all expenditures for land and buildingsnot used in operation of road,. 8o8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XV. No. n. The committee want it understood that this refers to land andbuildings purchased in connection with securing right of way, andreal estate used in operation of road, but not a part of either, al-though incident to the construction and equipment of the road. Thisdoes not refer to the purchase of land and buildings bought forthe purpose of investing surplus funds of the company, whichshould be charged to a special account; for example, SurplusInvestments. It having been suggested to your committee thatthe instructions concerning this account were not sufficiently clearor explicit, and that Investment Real Estate was not a construc-tion and equipment account, we submit the above for your infor-mation. Second—Monthly Reports—Debiting and crediting the monthsproportion of each item under Income From Other Sources,Deductions From Income, and Deductions From Net In-come, currently, each month, and charging to acco
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