The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-02-16

fancy That require previous pTeVald-
ton equivalent to four years high |
school course and end in the degrees
Of Bachelor of Commercial Science.
Your boys special work at evening
school or outside study will include
bookkeeping, commercial arithmetic.
business letter writing, |
business forms, commercial geo.
graphy, and the elements Of CONNER
cial law, and stenography and type
writing will also be found useful, II
he has time to take 1t up. Soon after
completing this course, which will re.
quire a year or SO, he will be graft
fled at receiving a promotion to a
sort of junior clerkship at salary Of
So or SO week. Il
In year or so more, then a va
cancy occurring, or one being made
for the ambitious clerk, there will be
another promotion to more impor-
tant position at $12 week, and SO
on he advances, till he is finally head
bookkeeper at anywhere from $50 to
$40 a week, according to the extent of
the firms business. This will come,
probably, by the time he Is thirty.
Long before this, however, your boy
will have seen the necessity Of pos.
sessing still greater technical cduca.
ton, If he is to reach the high posi-
ton of certified public accountant,
which leads straight into the more
NJ }v,oy, a nj yNho
Of modern business. The complete
collegiate course bringing a degree
requires, generally speaking, an hour
at school every day Tor evening" for
three years, and takes him into thu
advanced analysis OF accounting,
finance, and business. And he should
add to this course in advanced com.
mercial law, which he can pursue at
the same time.
Now, he needs more experience,
which he can best get, probably I'm.
der the direction of an established
public accountant. He enlists, there.
fore, as junior clerk at $50 or $25 a
week, and after year or SO is ad.
vanced to senior clerk at salary
ranging up to as much as $50 weekly.
A year or two more, and your boy viii!
probably be known as thoroughly
competent accountant and business
! analyst
From here on his advancement may
/ be along any Of many lines. If he
chooses to remain in Independent &C
counting, he will probably organize a
| firm of his own, either with or with
out partners and hang out his shingle
depending entirely upon commissions
from business firms and municipal
and legislative work. There is nc
| end of revenue in this class of bust
ness, as you will readily see by re
calling the frequent analysis and lex
porting" of various state and munich
pal departments and bureaus that are
required. It is almost the custom-ir
many places it is roouired-for public
officials at regular intervals to have
the work of their departments "cer
titled" by public accountants, which
means big fees and when special in
vestigations of large public enter
prises are made these fees sometimes
amount to thousands Of dollars. From
$25, 900 to $4,000 is by no means un
usual payment for such work.
Another lucrative specially that ha
grown up in this line during the las
decade has been that of business re
organizer, or developers of earnin
| ~ %hae0 croa3o lie
are called Their services are sough
by business houses that are confront
ed by disaster or embarrassment, Of
for some reason beyond their RI
sources to prevent, are not gett1n
the results they believe they should
Enter the developer" at stipulate
fee, which is generally pretty higf
and makes a profound and analytics
investigation of the business, whic
may require several months work {
/ himself and an assistant or two,-s
the end of which time he makes Ion
and complete report on every phas
of the establishment, from the orde
ing and receipt of raw material,
the cost of manufacture. includin
wages and machinery, and the sal
and final shipment of the finished pr
duct. This report frequently recon
mends the complete reversal of met
DDS of operation the firm has followe
and requires it's entire reorganizatio
and generally results in the company
entering upon a new era of prosperlt
If your boy owns the firm that h;
\ done this reorganizing, he will pro
, ably remain in the business and fins
t ly be one of the big institutions
his community; but If he Is one
= the assistants and takes an importa
part in the investigation, you CT
. readily see the Importance he has g
t sumed in the estimation Of the fir
! after it's business has reached pre-
) porous condition. What more like
9 than that he should be offered t
q position of auditor or manager
s. other responsible place? This fl
y quently happens, as the writer here
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