The owner of a small software company felt his accounting system was useless. He stated, Ac-counting

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The owner of a small software company felt his accounting system was useless. He stated, “ Ac-counting systems only generate historical costs. Historical costs are useless in my business because everything changes so rapidly.”

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a. Are historical costs useless in rapidly changing environments?
b. Should accounting systems be limited to historical costs?
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Management Accounting In A Dynamic Environment

ISBN: 9780415839020

1st Edition

Authors: Cheryl S McWatters, Jerold L Zimmerman

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