October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
227 pages
5h 8m
English

Printing Business Multiplies Net Profit by 500%
Unable to see a connection between adding 25% profit to every job and ending up with 5%, the printer is instrumental in giving birth to TARI
“I don’t understand it at all: I put 25 percent profit on every job and never get more than 5 percent by the end of the year. What am I doing wrong?” asked the printer.
“I don’t know,” I replied, “but we can soon find out.” After 12 years as a professor of accounting and business studies, specializing in management accounting, I had yet to learn how to pinpoint the cause of such problems without extensive, time-consuming analysis. Nevertheless, I was confident ...