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Making the Numbers Count, 2nd Edition
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Making the Numbers Count, 2nd Edition

by Brian H. Maskell
June 2009
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
5h 51m
English
Productivity Press
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1 The Proactive Accountant

Management accounting is a profession under fire. In the last few years a barrage of criticism has been leveled at the traditional techniques of management accounting, as well as at management accountants and financial controllers. The fusillade has come from the accounting press, other trade and academic journals, and from people within manufacturing organizations. The author recently conducted a (very informal) survey in several American manufacturing companies.

The results were decidedly unflattering. It appears that management accountants are generally held in low regard by their colleagues and are not considered to be playing a useful role. The information they present is seen as wasteful, misleading, and causing ...

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