James Bray Griffith
James Bray Griffith (1871 - Jan 1, 1937) was an American business theorist, and head of Department of Commerce, Accountancy, and Business Administration at the American School of Correspondence in Chicago.
Life and work
Born in Maryland Thomas Francis Griffith and Euphemia Hill, Griffith came into prominence in the 1900s. Early 1900s he was Director International Accountants' Society, Inc.,[1] and director of the Course in Systematizing at the Business Man's Magazine.[2] and in 1907 he was Late 1900s he joined the American School of Correspondence, a distance education high school founded in 1897. For the Department of Commerce, Accountancy, and Business Administration Griffith wrote a series of instruction papers, among others on Advertising & Sales Organization (1909), Purchasing and stores department (1909), Records of labor and manufacturing orders (1909), Theory of Accounts (1914).[3]
In 1910 he was Managing Editor of the Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration a general reference work on accounting, auditing, bookkeeping, commercial law, business management, administrative and industrial organization, banking, advertising, selling, office and factory records, cost keeping, systematizing, etc.
Selected publications
- Griffith, James Bray, ed. Systematizing. Vol. 1. International Accountants' Society, Incorporated, 1905.
- Griffith, James Bray. Administrative and industrial organization. American school of correspondence, 1909.
- Hathaway, Charles E., and James Bray Griffith. Factory accounts: a working handbook of departmental organization and methods as applied to factories. American school of correspondence, 1913.
- Griffith, James Bray. Practical bookkeeping. American school of correspondence, 1915.
- Griffith, James Bray. Practical Bookkeeping: A Working Handbook of Elementary Bookkeeping and Approved Modern Methods of Accounting, Including Single Proprietorship, Partnership, Wholesale, Commission, Storage, and Brokerage Accounts. American technical society, 1918.
References
- ^ National Association of Accountants and Book-keepers, International Association of Office Men (1907). Business, the Magazine for Office, Store and Factory. p. 12.
- ^ The Magazine of Business, Vol. 7 (1905), p. 354.
- ^ Stone, Williard E. "WHO WAS WHO IN ACCOUNTING IN 1909?." The Accounting Historians Journal (1975): 6-10.
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