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Show UNIFORM SYSTEM IS 10 BEIHUCED New Bookkeeping Plan Will Be Followed in All State Institutions. ALSO IN DEPARTMENTS Work Will Be Inaugurated by Deputy Auditor George T. Judd. Uniform systems of bookkeeping and business management, with special reference ref-erence to requisitions of all kinds and vouchers for disbursements, are to be introduced in all the state institutions and departments by the state auditor. Thc work will be under the direction or. George T. Judd, deputy auditor in charge of examinations of the state offices of-fices and institutions. These systems have been installed in part in the University of Utah, the Agricultural college at Logan and the State School for the Deaf and Blind in Ogden. The systems will be perfected there and then introduced in the State Mental hospital at Provo, the State Industrial In-dustrial school at Ogden, the branch Agricultural college at Cedar City and lkter at the state prison. A closer cheek on the business affairs af-fairs of the institutions and the state departments is desired by the state auditor au-ditor and the board of examiners. The new voucher and requisition svstems will therefore be introduced in the de partmental offices, boards and commissions, commis-sions, as well as at the institutions. Rjesult of Much Work. Deputv Auditor Judd has been working work-ing on the new systems for a year, and has taken steps to install them while making his regular audit of the books of the different departments. He has completed his examinations for this year except the office of the secretary of state. Mr. Judd was asked if the new systems sys-tems were to be installed because irregularities ir-regularities had been discovered at the institutions and in the departments and boards. "Xo," he said, ('there have been no irregularities, but most of the offices have followed inadequate and unsatisfactory unsatis-factory methods of handling their books and tneir business. Under the new laws, which provide that the institutions, institu-tions, departments and boards must make monthly remittances of fees and other money collected for keeping, credited cred-ited to their accounts, in the state treasury, treas-ury, better and more businesslike methods meth-ods than those of the past are required. "Formerly the institutions and many of the boards, particularly the smaller ones, paid claims and made disbursements disburse-ments without passing them before tho board of examiners and through the auditor's au-ditor's office. We knew nothing of many of these transactions until the books were audited. Gives Accurate Checks. "Xow uniform voucher and requisition requisi-tion systems will be utilized in all the offices. The double voucher system will give the board of examiners and the state auditor a more accurate and quicker quick-er check on tho business of each office. Inventories and audits can be quickly made at any time. "This will insure that all the claims in each office will pass before the board of examiners and the disbursements made through the state auditor's office. of-fice. As I have said, the university, t he agricultural college and manv of the smaller boards made payments' of w hich we knew nothing until' afterward. The claims were all just and the disbursements disburse-ments and requisitions proper ones, but the system was wrong." State Auditor Lincoln G. Kelly has approved of the method worked out bv Deputv Judd for unifying the bookkeeping book-keeping systems and has commissioned him to introduce them through the controlling con-trolling boards and departmental heads. The work is to start at once. |