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The Accounting Department series is arranged into four subseries. The Office of the Controller's records include memoranda, two General Accounting Procedures handbooks, and a small unbound booklet. The Accounting Operations Office records contain memoranda and correspondence from the Chief Accountant, and later the Manager of Accounting Operations. The Plant Accounting Office, which managed capital assets (especially equipment) and space utilization, contains Plant Accounting memoranda. Cost Accounting Office records contain an oversized spiral bound volume containing fully allocated cost schedules of all revenue producing components of the university, including the schools, medical center, service departments and business auxiliaries.

Contains reports, memoranda, case studies, clippings, and financial papers, chiefly redating to specific J. Walter Thompson Company accounts. Case studies can be found either undo the Case studies subsection or within the folder for the particular account, e.g. Scott Paper Company. The amount of material about specific accounts vary. For some, specific information about prizes, contests, and packaging used to promote specific products is included. Testimonial advertising developed to recruit well-known persons to endorse products and volunteer groups, who employed the J. Walter Thompson Company to promote their causes or concerns, are also represented.

Detailed accounts of naval surgeon John Simpson's voyages (the one exception being Simpson's copy of Sir John Richardson's Arctic Searching Expedition). Formats include small bound manuscript journals, volumes with inserted sketches and other manuscript items, folios, and manuscript proofs. Simpson's experiences on the HMS Plover and the emigration transport Superior are given particularly detailed treatments. Arranged in chronological order.