Excerpt from Cost and Price
"As I study conditions within my business I find that they soon develop questions the answers to which are beyond my business and beyond my knowledge to answer. There is a limit to the efficiency and economy of my business, because in its study I soon reach the economic sins of others. They are social and community problems, but so vital in their effect upon me and my prosperity that I must some day go into a room, lock the door and think them out."
This was a recent utterance of a man, the head of one of the important industries of the central-west.
This man now has no need to think out these answers, - they have been answered for him in this book.
The business man of today has studied the minutest processes of his product and has applied efficiencies and economics as these studies reveal them to him. He has expanded his product to meet the demands for increased revenue, but he soon finds, as the man just quoted, that the problems extend beyond the range of his business; that a community or society is a co-operation to other businesses like his own. - that one affects another, and each affects all. He also finds that the same major principles of bookkeeping will apply to the community and to his own individual business, that the community has overhead charges to which all businesses must contribute in making their original investment - and also in rents, interest, taxes, pay roll and all material and supply bills.
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