RAILWAY ACCOUNTING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 4 May 1938, Page 11

RAILWAY ACCOUNTING

MODERN MECHANICAL AIDS BUDGETARY SYSTEM The largest meeting in the history of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Society of Accountants—an attendance of 250 members —was given n feast of figures in the large rooms of the railways accountancy branch at the Wellington new station recently. The main purpose of the assembly was to see demonstrations of New Zealand's largest installation of mechanical aids for accounting and other operations on figures.

In a room, which has a floor space of more than 2,000 square feet, there are 44 machines, including key-punch-ers, sorters, tabulators, calculators, adders, addressographs, book-keepers, and a multigraph. Altogether, the branch occupies a floor space of 13,240 squai" feet. The stall, including travelling auditors, numbers 120, of whom GO are women.

The visitors' remarks indicated that, although they had expected to see somesome astonishing feats, their anticipation had been exceeded. The chief accountant. Mr. W. Bishop, mentioned that the budget system was in operation in connection with the railway accounts. Budgets were prepared by district officers four-weekly for 'their anticipated expenditure for the ensuing four weeks. The costing system in the railway workshops enabled the foremen to know how they were "getting on with various jobs day by day.