A specific issue raised relates is that of additivity specifically in the context of measurement in accounting. Discuss this issue and indicate why it may be a problem in the measurement of a businesss wealth? Illustrate by reference to the Balance Sheet. Does this then have implications for the quality of information available to the user, and the ability to compare performance reports both across time for an entity and between entities? Discuss. Alternative models to historical cost have been suggested by a number of accounting academics overtime. Discuss one of these models and indicate why you believe this model has not replaced historical cost, and why, in accounting, the historical cost model (or a modified historical cost model) continues to be preferred.