Women who provide day care in their own homes augment their modest earnings in some cases if they take afvantage of deductions permitted under the Internal Revenue regulations concerning use of private homes for business purposes. Where combined family income is at a level where income tax is payable, it may be profitable to calculate all…

A random sample of 86 homemakers was included in this study to determine the relationship between the homemakers of Union County's use of recommended budgeting and record keeping practices and selected characteristics. The personal and family characteristics considered were the age of the homemaker, age of the homemaker's husband, and employment…

The process presented for monitoring the development of individualized learning materials is a basic two-component system comprised of a brief progress report form and a computer program for summarizing the responses to these forms. (Author)

Presented is the "University of Southern California Trojan Stores Inventory Procedures for Department Supervisors and Inventory Members." This manual includes four drawings of stocked merchandise to be used for discussion during staff training sessions, a practice inventory sheet, and the test used to measure employee comprehension of…

The early linguistic environment of normal infants and children is discussed and research is applied to children who have severe and profound handicaps. (BD)

The author states that educators must instill a sense of professional pride and identification in their bookkeeping students. He gives something of the history of bookkeeping, its importance in the financial world, the different duties of bookkeepers and accountants, and the equal importance of both. (MF)

Ways to turn wasted minutes into productive time are outlined. Problems and their solutions are grouped under planning, organizing, and controlling. (Author/MLF)

Discusses records management principles which provide the "whys" for practices and procedures in an efficient filing system and suggests techniques for incorporating these principles into filing instruction and for helping students develop an understanding of procedures involved in processing, storing, and retrieving records. (TA)

The amount of recorded information from a medical interview by note-taking was compared with that received with no note-taking. The study with 46 medical students suggests that note-taking facilitates recall and that there is a progressive decay of memory recall with the passage of time between the physician-patient interview and the recording of…

Guidelines are offered for bookstore managers with a minimal background in accounting or finance. Two journals need to be maintained--a "Sales Journal" and a modified "Cash Disbursements Journal"--to record daily sales and summaries of the number and value of invoices and credits passed for payment or deduction by department. (LBH)

Individual privacy, suggests a Swedish judge, must be protected by restricting the kinds of personal data collected and the uses to which it will be put, and by preventing erroneous information to be used. An issue is whether personal data in education files can be used in conjunction with data in other files. (Author/LBH)

Describes a computer program developed by an assistant principal in Maryland that tracks and analyzes student discipline referrals. It has been helpful in developing an action plan that has reduced referrals to the assistant principal's office. Includes two figures. (MD)

Provides a sequence to follow in the development of a discipline policy at the junior high school level. A successful policy includes consistency, continual recordkeeping, communication with parents, oncampus suspension, and positive reinforcement. (MD)

Through an alumni-led effort called Project Search, Haverford College found 72 percent of its 825 missing graduates. The project has paid off in more than renewed alumni ties, with a 20-fold return in the first 3 years of combined annual and capital fund raising. (MLW)

The potential that exists for expanding services and automating routine procedures via the microcomputer has been greatly increased by the advances in database managers. A database manager is described as a collection of programs that perform many data manipulation functions that would have required elaborate programming work in the past. (MLW)