John F. D. Rohrbach

John Francis Deems Rohrbach (1889 - Dec. 25, 1968''The Bridgeport Post from Bridgeport,'' Connecticut. Thursday, Dec. 26, 1968. p. 90) was an American business executive, known as co-author of Jerome Lee Nicholson's ''Cost accounting'' first published in 1919.

Born in New York City, Rohrbach obtained his degree at the New York City University. After graduation, he started his career as instructor in cost accounting at Columbia University, and got employed by J. Lee Nicholson and Company in the late 1910s, and eventually became partner in this consulting firm. Hein, Leonard W. "J. Lee Nicholson: pioneer cost accountant." ''Accounting Review'' (1959): 106-111.

Later on Rohrbach became director of the Milford Rivet and Machine company in Connecticut, New York for some time. After that he joined the rubber company Raybestos-Manhattan Company, Inc. in Passaic, New Jersey. He started out as an accountant, when the firm was worth only $50,000. He got appointed as assistant to the president, became vice president and in 1939 director of the company. After his retirement he remained a chairman of the board of Raybestos.

Selected publications

* Nicholson, Jerome Lee, and John Francis Deems Rohrbach.
Cost accounting
'' New York: Ronald Press, 1919
2nd ed. 1920
3rd ed. 1922.

References

1889 births
1968 deaths
American business theorists
New York University alumni
Columbia University faculty
Businesspeople from New York City
Economists from New York (state)
20th-century American economists
20th-century American businesspeople

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