Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.41 (710 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0875841384 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 269 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
Language | : | English |
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Thomas Johnson is a professor of management accounting. About the Author H.
It is the winner of the American Accounting Association's Deloitte Haskins & Sells/Wildman Award Medal. It is also available in paperback: ISBN 0875842542.. "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
this is a book that revolutionized management accounting Relevance lost of a book about the history of management accounting. The book is very well documented in that in times they were able to deduce different conclusions made by others. They start from the very beginning exploring as far back as the 18th century. They start out by discussing how textile mills started recording in their books accounting information. They begin from the very beginnings of accounting. Accounting emerged as a discipline in the early 18th century, but their underlying purpose in not for internal uses but it was created so that stakeholders can gauge the value of th. "Forget what you think you know and find real improvement" according to Richard Cushing. The is a great book that everyone that is running any company that makes, distributes, sells, installs or services any kind of product would benefit from reading--provided they have an open mind to forget what they think they know and learn something new.. "excelent book" according to Armando Abreu Paez. Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting is a unique ride across the history of Management Accounting and an excelent approach of a new point of view
H. Thomas Johnson is a professor of management accounting.