📗 Libro en inglés RELEVANCE LOST: THE RISE AND FALL OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING

Since its initial publicaction in 1987, Relevance Lost has gone through nine printings, won two major awards from the accounting profession, and has had a profound impact on how management accounting systems operate in the 1990s. It has become a manifesto for managers in accounting and control.

By exploring the evolution of management accounting in American business from the early textile mills to present-day computer-automated manufacturers, Johnon and Kaplan reveal why modern corporations must make major changes in the way they measure and manage costs. Ina a world of rapid technological change, vigorous global and domestic competition, and enormous information-processing capabilities, it is crimical that managers receive information that is timely, accurate, and relevant.