Accounting Department (Ford Motor Company) records subgroup, 1905-1945 (bulk 1915-1940)

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Accounting Department (Ford Motor Company) records subgroup, 1905-1945 (bulk 1915-1940)

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The Accounting Department (Ford Motor Company) records subgroup is comprised of six series: Amtorg Trading Corporation records series, 1928-1938 (30.6 cubic ft. and 1 oversize box), Acc. 199, Acc. 531, and Acc. 632; the Branch Accounting records series, 1905-1920 (1 cubic ft.), Acc. 1881; W. E. Carnegie records series, 1918-1928 (10.8 cubic ft.), Acc. 571; Cost Accounting records series, 1913-1940 (82.8 cubic ft., 7 oversize boxes, 11 volulmes ), Acc. 125, Acc. 204, Acc. 230, Acc. 372, Acc. 432, Acc. 542, Acc. 612, Acc. 735, Acc. 736; Manufacturing Plant records series, 1927-1945 (13.6 cubic ft.), Acc. 223, Acc. 224; Production Reports series, 1920-1932 (0.4 cubic ft. and 4 oversize boxes), Acc. 373.

139.2 cubic ft., 12 oversize boxes, 11 volumes.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Ford Motor Company. Accounting Department.

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Accounting functions at Ford Motor Company prior to World War II primarily focused on cost analysis of manufacturing operations through the Accounting and Factory Accounting Departments. The Accounting Department monitored and maintained accounts payable and receivables and was eventually renamed the Disbursement Department. The Factory Accounting Department performed most of the traditional functions of a corporate accounting department through cost accounting, analysis, and reporting on produc...

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...

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 ...