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Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting
Relevance Lost The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting
Author: H. Thomas Johnson, Robert S. Kaplan
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780875841380
ISBN-10: 0875841384
Publication Date: 3/1987
Pages: 269
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Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
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.


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