. Electric railway journal . 257,408 steam railroad mileage. During 1917there was an increase of electric line mileage of Wells-Fargo & Company took over 200 more milesmaking its total 4431 and the Adams Express Companydiscontinued service over 64 miles. The other expresscompanies reported practically no change. 660 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 52, No. 15 Saving Money Through Accounting Without Impairing Efficiency, Accounting Depart-ments Should Now Show Productive Power—Efficient Voucher Check Used in Mobile By M. W. Glover Secretary and Auditor Mobile Light & Railroad Company,Mobil
. Electric railway journal . 257,408 steam railroad mileage. During 1917there was an increase of electric line mileage of Wells-Fargo & Company took over 200 more milesmaking its total 4431 and the Adams Express Companydiscontinued service over 64 miles. The other expresscompanies reported practically no change. 660 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 52, No. 15 Saving Money Through Accounting Without Impairing Efficiency, Accounting Depart-ments Should Now Show Productive Power—Efficient Voucher Check Used in Mobile By M. W. Glover Secretary and Auditor Mobile Light & Railroad Company,Mobile, Ala. THIS war has changed the order of many was considered impossible a few years agois now the natural order of business. Possibly beforethe war is over the accounting department may comeinto its own. A few years ago it was the rule rather than theexception to treat the accounting department as oneof the necessary evils connected with the operation ofa railway. Sometimes the accountant was merely a. VOUCHER CHECK AND RECORD VOUCHER USED BYMOBILE LIGHT & RAILROAD COMPANYSACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT clerk in the superintendents office with no title andless authority. If he could persuade the superintendentthat certain things should be done to enable him to obtainthe proper records, and it did not entail too much work,perhaps he was allowed to get the reports needed. Asfor permitting him, however, to issue orders as to howrecords were to be kept and what reports should bemade, that was unheard of. The evolution of the accounting department of steamrailroads took place many years ago. The interstatecommerce act had more to do with the proper recogni-tion of the importance of railway accounting than anyother one agency. Steam railway executives soon sawthat their unproductive department was of more importance than they had imagined, and now theaccounting departments of steam railroads usually havevice-presidents at their head and have no difficulty inenforcing their inst
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