United States Bureau Of The Census
Published: 2018-02-17
Total Pages: 48
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Excerpt from Uniform Accounts for Systems of Water Supply The accompanying scheme for uniform accounts and reports for water supply enterprises had its inception in the adoption by the 'new England Water Works Association in 1885 of its form for uniform reports. The adoption of that form and its use for many years by a considerable number of privately and publicly owned water-supply systems has been an educative force, teaching the public the value of uniform reports for all such systems. Since the adoption of that form for uniform reports the science and art of accounting have made great and rapid progress. Uniform accounts have come to be recognized as the only correct basis of uniform reports in the industrial, banking, and commercial world. Ptiblic service commis sions and associations of many classes of corporations have given great attention to the subject. Many schemes of uniform accounts have been arranged and adapted to varying lines of business activity. In 1907 the Bureau of the Census began a study in this field, with the object of open ing the way for preparing at a later date uniform statistics of the assets and operations of water-supply systems. A little later the American Water Works Association, becoming interested in the subject, appointed a special committee to study the same. This committee, with Mr. Albert H. Wehr, of Baltimore, as chairman, has given a great amount of study to the subject and made its preliminary report 'to the American Water Works Association at its thirtieth annual session, held in New Orleans in 1910. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.