Manual Of Financial Railway Agricultural And Other Statistics

Author : George L. Boag
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330260999
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Manual of Railway Statistics written by George L. Boag and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Manual of Railway Statistics In offering this manual to railway executive officers at home and abroad, the author (who is a practical railwayman, with experience in four different countries) disclaims any pretensions to originality, but has rather endeavoured to furnish a recapitulation of the different statistical units in common use, with suggestions as to economical methods for their preparation. Opinions differ as to the merits of a control exercised by means of statistical units, some of which cannot be available until some considerable time after the period to which they relate, but, while it is admitted that no average figures can properly replace a close personal attention to daily operations, this is often quite impossible to the head of a large department, and he must have at his command some comprehensive measure of the work of his assistants. The nature of such a measure will vary with the character and scope of the railway, and it is hoped that this little work will furnish, if not the unit best suited to each particular case, some idea of how such may be compiled. More especially abroad, where there are no facilities for reference to libraries, or to friendly colleagues, the suggestions given may be useful to those who require to centralise masses of figures, which tend in detail to confuse rather than to inform. Reprints of the Report of Sir Thomas Rees Price to the Railway Congress, and the Railway Accounts Bill of 1911, are appended, and it is hoped that the reproduction of these documents in a convenient form will help towards the much-needed Standardisation of Railway Accounts and Statistics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.