## Abstract This article presents resource consumption accounting (RCA), a management accounting methodology that focuses on the managerβnot the external financial statementβas the primary user of its information. Based largely on German management accounting methods in use for at least 60 years, i
A Management Accounting Framework
β Scribed by Gary Cokins
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 168 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1044-8136
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
As nonfinancial managers increasingly need to understand their costs, there is confusion about competing cost
measurement methodologies. Should they choose standard costing, actual costing, throughput costing, or project
costing? The author suggests an overarching framework that supports the three purposes of management:
controlling, directing, and planning. Β© 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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