## 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 support
Resource consumption accounting: Manager-focused management accounting
β Scribed by Larry White
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 305 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1044-8136
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β¦ Synopsis
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, it incorporates the best insights of activityβbased costing (ABC), the theory of constraints (TOC), and traditional management accounting thinking. Β© 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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