HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-05-30, Page 16This is the age of the computer and commercial students at SHDHS are being trained to live
in that age. The school has an IBM card-punch machine, which is being operated here by
Gail Shipman.
Bookkeeping courses
of value to everyone
Modern bookkeeping machines are also used by the students,
preparing them for the equipment they will find when they
move into the business world. Working on the machines,
from the left: Joyce Pickering, Sandra O'Rourke and Heath-
er McLeod.
noc s or commercial class
1.3Y W. P. NIM3.S.Tgll
Commercial Director
As the artieleP in, this.
Paper will attest, the PPuth
Huro4 DJStrJet High, School
Board haS spent a great Oeal
of time and Money toprpvide
equipment and facilities, to
give the students of the
Exeter area all the educa-
tional advantages ppssible,
I feel, as the Commercial
Director of this fiee estab,
lishment, that the biggest
problem of the immediate
ftitere is to persuade the
students of this area to take
advantage of these facilities.
Most of the money spent in
this last addition went into
the building and equipping
of Technical and Commer-
cial educational areas but
less than half the student
body is enrolled in these
programs.
Opportunity i s knocking
and I hope that many peo-
ple will hear and answer
the knock.
In the Commercial depart-
ment we can offer the five
year student an academic
program that is second to
none and will allow him or
her to go on to University
if he or she chooses, and at
the same time will give the
student some very practical
skills that will be of great
use regardless of when they
leave school or of the life's
work they choose.
A student of the five-year
Commercial program is
equal in academic qualifica-
tions to a student of the five-
year Arts and Science pro-
gram because they take the
same basic subjects and at
the same time take the
"cream" of the commercial
subjects.
I am sure that the readers
of this article will admit that
a knowledge of the basic
principles and skills of the
-business world is essential
in this ever expanding and
demanding society in which
we live.
The various courses will
be dealt with in other arti-
cles in this paper butl would
like to mention one or two
at this time, to point out
to the reader some of the
new aspects of commercial
education in South Huron
District High School.
One “Case in Point" is
Data Processing that has
been introduced for the first
time this year. We are be-
coming aware of the ever
increasing influence that the
computer has on our lives
and I am ,sure, that as, tine
gees by, we hill be more
and, more intinehced by the
c' Machine'
At the Present time we
are giving a course in Data
Processing at the grade ten
level to the-four-year busi-
ness and commerce stu-
dents. We are also giving an
I.B.M. KeYpunch course to
the four-year business and
commerce students at the
grade twelve level,
These courses should be
given to more than a selec-
ted few and would be given
tq the five-year business and
commerce students if enough
students enrolled in the five-
year business and commerce
Program , At the present time
we have no five-year busi-
ness and commerce classes.
I feel the reason for this
is partly a lack of knowledge
about the various five-year
programmes; also a reluc-
tance to accept, anything new
in the line of education. (The
General Course was the only
one leading entrance in the
past but this is no longer
the case. We fail to accept
that fact that any other
course is on a par with the
General Course, now called
Five-Year Arts andScience,
so we pass up many oppor-
tunities by clinging to the
past).
The grade ten course in
data processing is a fa-
miliarization course de-
signed to make the students
aware of the fundamental
principles and terms and
equipment used in the data
processing field. It is also
an introductory course to
the more difficult work of
computer programming that
could be introduced at the
grade eleven level.
We also make the students
aware of the many employ-
ment possibilities in the data
processing field. These op-
portunities are available to a
graduate of the four-year,
five-year and the university
student.
The Keypunch course
given to the grade twelve
students is to provide im-
mediate saleable skill upon
graduation or essenti al
knowledge if they intend to
further their education in the
data processing field.
Even though at some fu-
ture time the use of the
punched card may be re-
placed by some other faster
means of computer input you
only have to look at the
ciassifed Section of the
newspaper te, see that, there
is at the PrePent,.time Of
Mancl for the ICeYlaunchePer-
ator and I feel that thiS
nland Will continue for some
time in the future because
of costs of other methods of
doing the same job,
Another opportunity that
could be extended to embrace
the five-year business and
commerce course is the
Business. Machines course.
In this course the studePts
are taught the operation of
adding machines, calcula-
tors, bookkeeping machines,
duplicators of various types
and copiers of various types.
The Commercial Depart-
ment at South Huron is Sec-
ond- to -None in the list of,
office equipment for use in
the education of our Com-
mercial classes.
However, the point I would
like to make at this time, is
the fact that we could, and
want to extend to more stn-
dents, the opportunities that
are available in the Com-
mercial F iel d. Read the
other articles in this paper
for more details and par-
ticulars about the Commer-
cial Education at South Huron
For those people who know
that they will not be employed
in an office or who know that
they are going to continue
beyond secondary education
I would like to point out
one or two facts. Everyone,
if he is to succeed in any
line of endeavour, must learn
some of the fundamental
rules of the business world.
The skill of typing and
the principals of Book-
keeping can be of great use
to a student at university
who must type essays and
reports or to the farmer
that must keep his own books.
A skill, once learned, is
never completely forgotten
and can be called upon at a
future date, even though un-
used for years.
I could go on at great
lengths but I will not be-
labour the point any farther. •
We have a beautiful school
in Exeter. We have a very
active and progressive Com-
mercial Department at South
Huron and we in the Com-
mercial Department a r e
anxious to make Commer-
cial Education in Exeter the
best in the Province and to
extend it to as many stu-
dents as possible.
Opportunity is knocking.
Will you answer it?
for facts and figures, the
professions of bookkeeping
and accounting have devel-
oped to provide, at speci-
fied intervals, the financial
pictures required for the
guidance of ownership.
The Bookkeeping course
at SHDHS teaches the meth-
ods, to appropriately des-
cribe and accumulate the
monetary „measurements
necessary to determine pro-
fit or loss for any financial
period and to develop the
resultant financial state-
ments showing the changes
in value of ownership or
capital.
Only recently has the
farmer become aware of the
value in keeping records.
Through the use of book-
keeping methods he can now
determine the profit or loss
in each area of his opera-
tion by, for example, re-
cording the costs applicable
to each type of crop and
the income from each one.
Because he now uses
records he can see that if
he is losing money in some
areas, he must eliminate
these and concentrate in the
future on more profitable
ones.
The same principle ap-
plies to any business. We
must record income and ex-
penditures systematically
and accurately to show a
periodic picture of business
operations in order to com-
petently plan future actions,
and to budget efficiently both
time and finances.
Cutting costs has saved
many businesses, but only
if records are properly
maintained can ownership
see which costs can be re-
duced without being detri-
mental to efficient opera-
tion.
The course in. Bookkeeping
at SHDHS in not a course in
memory work but rather a
detailed development of the
subject, presented with ex-
ercises so that the student
will understand why each
transaction is made and how
to apply it according to book-
keeping principles arid con-
ventions.
A student in any of the
secondary school programs
would be well advised to
consider the study of Book-
keeping for at least one year
because it provides the basic
background or knowledge of
bookkeeping procedures up-
on which the preparation for
any specific area of work in
business can be developed.
See
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BY J. ROBINSON
Bookkeeping Teacher
Anyone who receives and
spends money should know
the procedure to properly
record the measurement of
these transactions. This ap-
plies not only to the presi-
dent of a large corporation,
but also to the retailer of
consumer goods, the farm-
er, the doctor and even the
housewife.
The success of any busi-
ness is determined by the
interpretation of financial
statements. It is the Book-
keeper who prepares the
financial statements from
his recordings of daily
transactions. In the small-
est business operation, it is
humanly impossible to re-
member the many details re-
quired to operate in today's
competitive economy.
As a result of the demand
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