. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. :f'WIHimjt^v.».--' eimnr i'IIIIIIIIHIIIIIIII"i"li"n™*T ^^^r'^HE , . lliifiTiffT^fnillil naosffliiniiniin COUNTING COST s^ s^ IS COINING CASH How much does it cost to produce, or sell a flower f This is a question few florists can answer, but we must know our costs if we are to continue to suc- ceed. Here are some thoughts on the subject by the president of the Illinois Association of Public Accountants. m^t^l^^Sm T was not so long ago that I had a laundryman been asked the simple question, "How much does it cost you to wash a co
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. :f'WIHimjt^v.».--' eimnr i'IIIIIIIIHIIIIIIII"i"li"n™*T ^^^r'^HE , . lliifiTiffT^fnillil naosffliiniiniin COUNTING COST s^ s^ IS COINING CASH How much does it cost to produce, or sell a flower f This is a question few florists can answer, but we must know our costs if we are to continue to suc- ceed. Here are some thoughts on the subject by the president of the Illinois Association of Public Accountants. m^t^l^^Sm T was not so long ago that I had a laundryman been asked the simple question, "How much does it cost you to wash a collar!" he %|i «» would have replied, "How /I^-^ should I know?" But he /#y^^ knows now. The National —11 Association of Laundry- men took up the matter of cost accounting for its members; a sys- tem was devised by an expert account- ant and that system is being used by substantially all the laundrymen of the country. Asked now how much it costs to wash a pair of socks, he will turn to his books and give figures that extend a considerable distance to the right of the decimal point. Ask any florist today how much it costs to produce a flower, if he be a grower, or how much it costs to sell a dollar's worth of flowers, if he be a retailer or wholesaler, and the reply in 999 cases out of 1,000 will be, '' How should I knowt" But he is going to find out; he must if he wants to stay in business. At St. Louis last August President Charles H. Totty called the attention of the S. A. F. convention to this sub- ject. Mr. Totty's paper caused the con- vention to authorize a committee to study the subject and report at the 1919 meeting at Detroit. Only a few weeks ago Otto H. Amling ^^mm^^^^^ (read a paper on the cost of producing flow- ers before the Chicago Florists' Club. It was an exhaustive study of the subject as related to the operation of a greenhouse range. It was printed in The Re- view for November 14. System First. Let me say here that florists ought n
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