A System Without a Name --Dickeson

Over the past few years I've been critical of job cost accounting used by many printing companies and supported by printing software firms. Job cost accounting is an obsolete and deceptive management system. What management model do I propose we use for commercial printing?

General Ledger accounting? No. That scheme, with its monthly balance sheets and income statements, is a custodial system, not a managerial system. According to Myron Tribus, "Managing a company by means of the monthly report is like trying to drive a car by watching the yellow line in the rear-view mirror."