Auditing Department (Ford Motor Company) records subgroup, 1902-1947 (bulk 1920-1940)

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Auditing Department (Ford Motor Company) records subgroup, 1902-1947 (bulk 1920-1940)

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The Auditing Department (Ford Motor Company) records subgroup is comprised of eight series: Affiliated Companies records series, 1913-1946 (16.6 cubic ft., 2 oversize boxes, 6 volumes), Acc. 47, Acc. 217, Acc. 276, Acc. 392, Acc. 393, Acc. 399, Acc. 403, Acc. 670, Acc. 675, Acc. 785, Acc. 787, Acc. 791; Audit Reports series, 1928-1946 (0.4 cubic ft.), Acc. 517; Employee records series, 1902-1947 (3.4 cubic ft., 4 volumes), Acc. 410, Acc. 581, Acc. 549, Acc. 707, Acc. 890, Acc. 952; Branch Audit records series (34.8 cubic ft., 6 volumes), Acc. 118, Acc. 206, Acc. 208, Acc. 211, Acc. 282, Acc. 260, Acc. 282, Acc. 394, Acc.415, Acc. 708, Acc. 710, Acc. 788) ; General Accounting records series, 1904-1925 (17.6 cubic ft., 4 volumes), Acc. 205, Acc. 210, Acc. 212, Acc.623; Income Tax records series, 1906-1935 (5.2 cubic ft., 14 oversize boxes), Acc. 209, Acc. 259, Acc. 444, Acc. 535; Subject Files series, 1917-1945 (55.6 cubic ft.), Acc. 33, Acc. 203, Acc. 779.

133.6 cubic ft., 16 oversize boxes, 14 volumes.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Ford Motor Company. Auditing Department.

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Prior to World War II, the Auditing Department at Ford Motor Company was a unique amalgamation of business finance operations. While Auditing Department staff performed many traditional audit functions, they were also tasked with duties and functions associated with accounting departments and thus acquired a wide variety of financial data. Annual audits of branches and plants allowed company auditors to delve into general operations, administration, and personnel performance issues as well as ge...

Ford motor company

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When Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903, Alexander Y. Malcolmson was elected the Company's first treasurer, but his assistant James Couzens actually managed financial functions. People holding the position of Ford Motor Company treasurer from 1903 to 1955 included Alexander Y. Malcolmson, 1903-1906; James J. Couzens, 1906-1915; Frank L. Klingensmith, 1915-1921; Edsel B Ford, 1921-1943; B. J. Craig, 1943-1946; and L. E. Briggs, 1946-1955. In 1903, the business office was in a small building o...