Evening star., 1917-09-17
ACCOUNTANTS HEAR
REPORTS ON WORK
Hold Preliminary Session at
Which Committees Outline
Progress of Institute.
CONVENTION TOMORROW

With a meeting of the council. at
which reports from the executive COM
mittee. the secretary and the commit
tee on education were submitted, the
annual meeing of the American lnsti-
tute of Accountants convened this
morning at $50 o'clock at the New
Willard Hotel. This was preliminary
session, the convention officially open
ing tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock
with business session.
Announcement of the concentration
of large number of the country's
leading public accountants for i'm
portant war service in government
auditing and supervision was made by
A. p. Richardson secretary of the in
stitute. in his report. In his report,
Secretary Richardson stated that no
body of men has performed higher or
more disinterested war service and
that none have given a greater per-
centage of it than have the account
ants.
Part of Accountants in War.
The entrance of the United States
into war against German autocracy
notes appealed instantly to all classes
of men and women to render individual
and cooperative service" Mr.. Richard
son said. Among accountants the
splendid achievements OF the profess
sion in Great Britain led to an imms-
diate and nationwide desire to accom-
plish for the United States what Brit
ish accountants had done for their coun-
try.
THE profession recognised that the
opportunity had come for accountancy
to demonstrate to the nation at large
its ability and its economic tndispensa-
bility. The institute offered its service
as a body and with unity which
would have been entirely impossible
under the loose association OF the ear
lier form of organization.
within year the American Institute
Of Accountants had made its name known
in all branches Of the federation govern
ment, and the value OF the services OF
accountants has been freely acknowledged
Gus departments and bureaus are now
in close touch with the American Insti-
tute Of Accountancy.
Value Of Accountancy.
$50 important is the work Of the ac-
countant in the war that the creation OF
the institute may be regarded as provi-
Dental. 1t gave the accountant the op-
portunity to make known the nature of
his abilities, but, even more important.
it brought to the public clearer under
standing of the value of accountancy.''
An effort is being made by the institute
to put accountancy service during the war
on as high a plane as has been achieved
by British accountants since the opening
of the war.
Carl H. Nau and Herbert c. Freeman
are to read papers at the session to-
morrow afternoon. which will start al
. O'Clock. An informal dinner is to be
held tomorrow evening in the hotel.
Officers are to be elected at a business
session Wednesday morning at 10
o'clock. At o'clock in the Afternoon
papers will be read by Seymour Walton
and b D. kribben. A theater party
will be held Wednesday evening. A
meeting of the council Thursday morn
ing at 10 O'Clock will wind up the busi-
ness of the organization.
1t is expected that $50 accountants
will be in attendance when the con-
vention officially opens tomorrow. The
membership of the organization Is
more than 1880.