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Author Bures, Allen L

Title Management audit approach in writing business history : a Comparison with Kennedy's Technique on Railroad History
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (271 pages)
Series Routledge Library Editions: Accounting
Routledge library editions. Accounting.
Contents Cover; Management Audit Approach in Writing Business History; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; I Introduction; II Business History, Models, and Theory; III The Management Audit Concept; IV An Appraisal Guide in Conducting a Preliminary Management Audit; V Findings From a Preliminary Management Audit of Five Selected Railroads; (i) Entrepreneurship; (ii) Social Responsibility; (iii) Organizational Structure; (iv) Executive Ability; (v) Directorate Effectiveness; (vi) Fiscal Policy; (vii) Operating Efficiency
(viii) Marketing Effectiveness(ix) Analysis, Planning, and Development; (x) Health of Earnings; (xi) Service to Stockholders; VI Comparison with Kennedy's More Complete Technique; VII Usefulness of a Preliminary Management Audit and Conclusions; Appendix A. Management Appraisal Guide; Appendix B. Adjusting and Using Accounting Data; Appendix C. Selected Balance Sheet Items, Selected Income Account Items, Income Account Ratios and Other Statistics; Appendix D. Maps of Selected Railroads; Appendix E. Mileage and Background of Selected Railroads; Appendix F. Presidents of Selected Railroads
Summary This study adds both knowledge and method in the writing of business history. The author proposes that a preliminary management audit can be devised and utilized to gather data, analyse and compare longitudinally the quality of management existing in organizations. This book modifies a methodological tool for measuring, analysing and comparing managements to aid in the writing of business history. It establishes criteria and examples of excellent management from a sample of the USA's first large-scale organization - the railroads. Prior to the 1870s the railroads were the only big business in
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ISBN 9781134607136
113460713X