Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting

relevance lost: the rise and fall of management accounting

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Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting

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Relevance Lost is an overview of the evolution of management accounting in American business, from textile mills in the 1880s and the giant railroad, steel, and retail corporations, to today's environment of global competition and computer-automated manufacturers. The book shows that modern corporations must work toward designing new management accounting systems that will assist managers more fully in their long-term planning. Winner of the American Accounting Association's Deloitte Haskins & Sells/Wildman Award Medal. Also available in paperback; ISBN 0875842542, $17.95.

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The authors reveal why modern corporations must make major changes in the way they measure and manage costs. DLC: 1. Managerial accounting. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting,H. Thomas Johnson,Robert S. Kaplan,Harvard Business School Press,0875841384,Accounting,Accounting - Managerial,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Cost accounting,History,Management Accounting,Managerial accounting,United States

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