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Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting
Relevance Lost The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting
Author: Robert S. Kaplan, Harvard Business School Press
Management accounting is vital to long-term planning. However, in today's climate of rapid technological change, vigorous global and domestic competition, and the enormous expansion of information-processing capabilities, current management accounting systems are inadequate and outdated. In Relevance Lost, H. Thomas Johnson and Robert S. Kaplan,...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780071032445
ISBN-10: 0071032444
Publication Date: 3/1/1987
Pages: 288
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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This is a great history of how we got where we are today in accounting, and what's wrong with today's accounting rules. Their point of view is still relevant 20 years later - not much has changed. Today's accounting is geared for financial markets and tax compliance and does little to help an owner run the business. Some great case studies from the 1800's and early 1900's.