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Return on Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment
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Return on Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment

by Steve Tockey
August 2004
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
15h 28m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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General Accounting

Technically speaking, accounting is the process of recording the financial history of a company. Many people think that accounting is only done to comply with legal requirements. Although it's true that legal compliance is a big reason, there are other important reasons for accounting:

  • The people whose money is being used to run the company want to know the results of their investment: Did they get the profit they were expecting or not? The primary role of accounting is to measure the company's actual financial performance.

  • Accounting provides data to make operational decisions and allows the results of those decisions to be seen later. Management can decide to cut costs through a corporate initiative, and then make sure the ...

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