Accountancy and business management .. . rders. The requisition form illustrated in Fig. 18 conveys the idea. The practice of sending an exact copy of the order to the cus-tomer eliminates the necessity of acknowledging the order by letter,and gives the customer an opportimity of checking over the orderas entered. It is customary to print on acknowledgment of orderforms the sentence: This is an exact copy of the order as entered—if any errors are noted kindly advise us at once. One firm inBuffalo saved $ the first week they installed this scheme,through the detection of an error by the c
Accountancy and business management .. . rders. The requisition form illustrated in Fig. 18 conveys the idea. The practice of sending an exact copy of the order to the cus-tomer eliminates the necessity of acknowledging the order by letter,and gives the customer an opportimity of checking over the orderas entered. It is customary to print on acknowledgment of orderforms the sentence: This is an exact copy of the order as entered—if any errors are noted kindly advise us at once. One firm inBuffalo saved $ the first week they installed this scheme,through the detection of an error by the customer. It is imperative that before a remedy or short-cut methodscan be prescribed, it is necessary to thoroughly diagnose all of theconditions incident to the business. It should also be rememberedthat clerks and even department heads will see all of the imaginarydifficulties of a new idea and overlook all of the benefits to be derivedtherefrom. It should be further remembered that if a new method 276 BILLING AND ORDER RECORDING 33. \/ Fig. Is. Siinplti Korins for Order llmiilliu^. litnunylon Jl/iJewrilcr Co.^ 277 34 BILLING AND ORDER RECORDING shortens nine-tenths of any particular class of work and slightly in-creases one-tenth, the party involved will many times fail to see thenet advantages accruing through the introduction of the new objections are raised to a suggested short-cut method it is alwayswell to ascertain whether the oV)jections apply to a majority of thework or a portion of it only. Most people in clerical positions ratherresent new ideas, and seem to take a pleasure in trying to find somereason why a new idea will not succeed. This is one phase of humannature which requires the utmost tact and diplomacy to handlesuccessfully. In advancing or suggesting new methods, it shouldbe assumed as far as possible, that the idea has been suggested bythe person to whom one is talking, for the reason that most peopleare willing to father their o
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