Classification of Operating Expenses, Operating Revenues and Expenditures for Road and Equipment: For the Use of Electric Railways (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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9780266281399: Classification of Operating Expenses, Operating Revenues and Expenditures for Road and Equipment: For the Use of Electric Railways (Classic Reprint)

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Gentlemen: During the past year the classification of accounts for electric railways has been a very active subject. Both the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Public Service Commissions of the First and Second Districts of New York have issued tentative classifications which have kept the question prominently before the attention of electric railroad interests as a whole. It is safe to say that at no time in the history of the industry has the question of accounting been considered of such vital moment and so occupied the attention of not only the account ing officers, but also the managers and presidents of the roads.

In order that there may be a clear understanding of the situation, let us refer brieﬂy to matters occurring in the early days of this association.

The Street Railway Accountants' Association was organized at Cleve land, Ohio, March, 1897. At that time a paper, entitled Suggestions for a Standard System of Accounts, Classification of Operating Expense Accounts and Form of Report That Will Admit of Comparison and Diffuse Information Between Companies, was presented to the convention by Mr. C. N. Duffy, then secretary and treasurer of the Citizens' Street Railway Company of St. Louis. One quotation alone from that paper is suggestive in view of recent developments.

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