Points and Viewpoints: National Council news

1956 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 479-480
Author(s):  
Howard F. Fehr

May I first express my gratitude to the members of the Council for the honor and confidence given to me in the election to the office of President. With the help of the other officers and members of the Board of Directors, I shall do my best to promote the interests of the Teachers of Mathematics and to carry on the fine program initiated by my predecessors in this office.

information. How do produced quantities influence the costs per unit? How can costs, calculated at different times, be compared? What is the best way to distribute the overheads? etc.. .. After the setting up of the accounting system, a long process of maturation began. This is evident, on the one hand, from the discussions of the Board of Directors and, on the other hand from the differences between the two sets of accounts approved by the Board of Directors in 1832 and 1872. The structure of the Com­ pany evolved considerably between 1832 and 1880: two mergers occurred, the first one in 1858 with Saint-Quirin, a glass manufac­ turer, and the second one in 1872 with Perret-Olivier, whose fields of activity were mining and chemistry. After the second merger, the sales figures for chemistry outstripped the sales of glass and mirrors and during this time the Company had grown to include 16 branches in France and Germany. DISCUSSIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ACCOUNTING All the questions dealing with the setting up of a management accounting system were discussed by the Boards of Directors. In most cases, the solutions were only practical ones. There never seemed any intent or desire by the Company to make any theory or any generalization of those practical solutions. Direct and indirect costs. The distinction between direct and indirect cost was made first in 1829 with regards to labor charges.9 Salaries, of which a comprehensive list is given above, will be separated into two groups: 1) Those concerning directly and specially with the manufacturing process. 2) Those concerning administration. At the end of the year, the former will be divided and included in the suitable items of expenses; then the latter will be included in the overheads. However, direct labor is likely to have included only the wages of workers having a permanent job, and excluded those of the day laborer, which are by their very nature fluctuating. In the soda factory, the majority of workers were day laborers, thus making it difficult to estimate precisely the ratio between direct and indirect labor charges. Production level and cost per unit. In the previously quoted chief accountant’s report concerning the financial year 1827-1828,

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pp. 259-259

1965 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 582-588
Author(s):  
Philip Peak ◽  
Philip S. Jones ◽  
Frank Hawthorne ◽  
Eunice Lewis ◽  
Adrien Hess ◽  
...  

The following named persons have been nominated for the indicated offices in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics by the Nominations and Elections Committee. The Committee's report was approved by the Board of Directors at its August, 1965, meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. Biographical material and photographs of these nominees will be published in the January, 1966, issues of The Arithmetic Teacher and The Mathematics Teacher.


1981 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Joseph J. Stipanowich ◽  
Elden B. Egbers ◽  
Stuart A. Choate ◽  
George Immerzeel ◽  
Joseph Crosswhite ◽  
...  

Each year it is the responsibility of the Financial Policies Committee (FPC) to prepare and to recommend to the Board of Directors a balanced budget for the next fiscal year. The budget as submitted or as modified to reflect the priorities of the Board is adopted and becomes a plan for use of the revenues available during that fiscal year.


1978 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-58

The directors listed here took office in April 1978 and serve a three-year term on the Board of Directors.


1961 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Philip Peak

The Board of Directors of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics appointed a committee to gat her information and to analyze experimental mathematics programs. This committee would like your help in identifying such programs. It has limited its analysis to programs that (1) have printed instructional materials other than courses of study, (2) are of at least one semester in duration, and (3) are not sponsored by a commercial publishing firm. The committee will examine all material, ask the experimenter to make a short personal report, and publish as many of the reports as possible.


1961 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Julius H. Hlavaty

The Board of Directors of The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics at the April, 1960 meeting approved the preparation and publication of a yearbook to be devoted to the problem of the mathematical education of the talented student in grades K- 12.


1934 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 365
Author(s):  
Edwin W. Schreiber

As secretary of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, I officially announce the annual election of certain officers of the National Council, said election to take place at Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Friday, February 22, 1935. Article III Section 7, of the by-laws states: “At least two months before the date of the annual meeting, all members shall be given the opportunity through announcement in the official journal to suggest by mail for the guidance of the directors a candidate for each elective office for the ensuing year. At least one month before the annual meeting the secretary of the board of directors shall send to each member an official ballot giving the names of two candidates for each office to be filled. These candidates shall be selected by a nominating committee of the board of which the secretary shall be chairman. The election shall be by mail or in person and shall close on the date of the annual meeting.”


1949 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 290

Over a period of years members have been asking why the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is not a department of the National Education Association. The Board of Directors has been studying the question since 1935.


1935 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 388-389

The next annual meeting of the National Council will be held at the Coronado Hotel, St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 31–Jan. 1, 1935–6. The explanation of the unusual date is that after the Council voted in February to hold a program meeting in St. Louis during the holidays in connection with the American Association for the Advancement of Science the N.E.A. selected St. Louis as the place of its February meeting for 1936. The Board of Directors, after due consideration, decided it would be unwise to hold two meetings in the same locality only seven weeks apart and voted to abandon plans for the usual February meeting and hold the regular annual meeting on the dates just mentioned. It is hoped that a greater number of high school teachers will be able to attend the meeting during the vacation period than would be possible in February.


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