Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 1972 Page: 4 of 12
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Processing orders to go out by ship are, from left, M. D. Blystone, P. A.
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Closing out a payroll arc S. J. Chappell (foreground), R. J. Baethe,
Bettie Simmons, and J. L. Mallory (standing).
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to employees, employees of pay- Checking computer printout showing details of a product order are
ables arc responsible for seeing Helen McWhorter, Betty Haltom, and Robert Hill.
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Putting invoice information together are E. J. Freeman, Faye Berry,
and J. O. Orchin.
Payables
The primary responsibilities
of personnel in the payables sec-
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sary for refining operations range
from timekeeping to in-depth an-
alyses of operations spanning vir-
tually all of the Refinery. These
procedures arc performed by em-
ployees in four different sections
of the department, each with its ae
own expertise in different areas •e.
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lions—payables, product and . ve
order control, financial account- 5
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paycheck. To the board of direc- job reclassifications. payments, making sure company
tors, to the government, to other Then, at the end of the pay approval schedules and other pol-
companies, and to the stockhold- periods, payables “puts it all to- icies are followed, and getting
ers, the refinery exists primarily gether,” inputs it into the Bay- the charges to the appropriate
on paper—in reports, in checks, town computer for initial calcu- cost centers.
and on invoices. lations, checks it, and then sends Product and Order Control
The task of creating and the data to the Houston Payroll While the payables section
maintaining the reality of Bay- Accounting group. deals mainly with employees and
town Refinery on paper falls Paying the company’s bills re- suppliers, personnel in the prod-
mainly to employees of the Ac- quires more sophisticated money Uct and order control section
counting Department. It is a de- management than that required deal mainly with Refinery cus-
manding task in a large refinery to pay bills at home. Checks tomers. They process the orders
like Baytown. Last year, the Re- amounts may vary from as little for products, help arrange trans-
finery used about 40 tons of as a dollar up to a million dol- portation for product delivery,
paper. A large portion of that lars, with about 2,400 checks prepare shipping documents, in-
paper was used by the Account- paid each month. To help earn voice the customer, and record
ing Department for taking orders as much with the company’s the sales for the Refinery. They
from customers, for invoicing money as possible, invoices are also handle purchases of crude
customers, for writing checks to placed into Baytown’s Main Of- and other finished and semi-fin-
suppliers, for a wide variety of fice computer and aged—that is, ished materials.
shipping documents, for determi- they are held until due for pay- Orders—about 2,000 a month
ning financial results, for com- ment, when the computer is pro- —come in primarily by teletype
puling the amounts of employees’ grammed to release the check, and by mail. They originate from
paychecks and in compiling re- This allows Humble to gather in- Humble’s Marketing and Supply
ports. lerest on that money for many (Continued on next page)
Accounting procedures neces-
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A refinery is many things to that headquarters receives the days—interest that adds up
many men. To the casual pas- necessary data. quickly when the dollars involved
serby, it is the silhouette of white The basic payroll data are sup- are so large.
tanks and tall columns against plied by each departmental group “We work closely with Hous-
the horizon. To the process man, in the Refinery, with each super- ton’s Treasury Department per-
il may be a familiar maze of visor responsible for getting the sonnel," says J. L. Mallory, pay-
dials, switches, and computer correct data for each man within ables supervisor, “especially
printouts. To the mechanic it his area. These data include, for when an unusually large check—
means miles of pipe, thousands of each employee, hours worked, va- such as the one to a supplier for
valves, and acres of motors and cations, sickness, special deduc- $965,000 written earlier this p
compressors. To the lab techni- tions (such as donations to month—is mailed.” 5
cian, it means sample and tests United Fund and the purchase of Other functions of payables •
by the thousands. To the family safety shoes), shift differentials, personnel include calculating dis-
of each employee, the refinery overtime meals, and major counts on purchases paid within
may exist in a periodic green changes such as promotions and a specified time, computing tax
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Lee, O. B. Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 1972, newspaper, October 27, 1972; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1433573/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.