Thomas johnson profile at portland state university. Traditional management accounting had the advantage of existing and being reliable but often lack accuracy and, especially, relevance traditional management accounting information did not have much decision usefulness, i. Publication date 1987 topics managerial accounting, managerial accounting publisher. Kaplan joined the hbs faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at carnegiemellon university. Tomorrows leaders will be those organizations who have the foresight to lead management accounting back to the path of relevance from which it strayed over sixty years ago. The rise and fall of management accounting, first published in 1987, h.
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