Time Inc. Comptroller Records
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Abstract
A collection of material produced during the comptroller's duties of supervising accounting and financial reporting. Includes material on accounting procedures and codes, accounts payable and receivable, balance sheets, lease agreements, and other financial information.
Historical Note
A comptroller is an executive responsible for supervising accounting and financial reporting. At Time Inc. the comptroller sat on the board as a vice-president. In the date range represented by this collection, the following people served as Time Inc.'s comptroller: Arnold Carlson until 1960; John F. Harvey from 1961 to 1971; David H. Dolben from 1971 to 1974; William E. Bishop from 1974 to 1978; and Kevin L. Dolan from 1978 to 1984, past the end of the dates represented in this collection.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in three series: Series I. Finance Control Files; Series II. Accounting Services Ledgers on Fortune; and Series III. Accounting Classifications.
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence largely involving Comptrollers or Assistant Comptrollers, data on lease payments for offices, documents on accounting procedures, accounts payable and receivable, inventory counts, ledgers, balance sheets and other financial information, and a list of classifications for accounting codes.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials in this collection are stored offsite. For more information on making arrangements to consult them, please visit www.nyhistory.org/library/visit.
Open to qualified researchers with the exception of restricted materials. Restricted materials include contracts and are stored in box R86.
Conditions Governing Use
Photocopying undertaken by staff only. Limited to 20 exposures of stable, unbound material per day. Application to use images from this collection for publication should be made in writing to: Department of Rights and Reproductions, The New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024-5194, rightsandrepro@nyhistory.org. Phone: (212) 873-3400 ext. 282.
Copyrights and other proprietary rights may subsist in individuals and entities other than the New-York Historical Society, in which case the patron is responsible for securing permission from those parties. For fuller information about rights and reproductions from N-YHS visit: https://www.nyhistory.org/about/rights-reproductions
Preferred Citation
This collection should be cited as Time Inc. Comptroller Records, MS 3009-RG 37, New-York Historical Society.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Time Inc. in 2015.
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Processing Information
The Time Inc. Comptroller Records were processed by Allen Thomas in 2020. The original folders were retained although some documents were transferred to archival containers in instances of overcrowding or if no original folder was present. Allen Thomas created the inventory and other descriptive notes for the record group. Materials were kept in their original groupings to form series but arrangement was imposed at the folder level.