Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Builder and Contractor, Vol. 1: May 15, 1911
Any broad comprehensive system of cost keeping will, no doubt, contain certain elements of cost analysis, and on the other hand, cost analysis being based upon the same comprehensive system of cost keeping as a foundation for any results secured, must necessarily embody suggestions along the line of proper cost keeping.
Naturally, in individual work, minor changes may be applicable and individual ideas incorporated, but in general any uniform system of cost analysis can only be obtained by the working out of a standard method of distribution, so that when one job is analyzed and compared with nu other, and where possibly the individual making the analysis has no familiarity with either or only one, there may be a direct method of comparison and analysis.
Even minor changes, due to the personal ideas of the individual, will throw any such comparison of analysis out of balance with the work of those who are following such a system. Many individual preferences may have good reason for existence, and it is only by receiving the sug gestions of all and thoroughly discussing each and every classification and distribution, that there can possibly be any advance along this line.
The same thing may be said of the uniform system of cost keeping. Cost keeping, even when conducted along as nearly uniform lines as possible, must necessarily vary in the form of blanks used, and the amount of clerical labor involved, all of which depends on the character and extent of the work.
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