Enter the World of Activity-based Costing--Dickeson

Ordinarily I receive an e-mail response or two to my scribblings here, sometimes none at all. But my column in January must have touched a nerve. It was headlined by the editor, "Goodbye Job Cost Accountancy."

Half a dozen readers posted e-mails, one from as far away as South Africa. Printing Impressions is demonstrably an international journal. I've had postings from Birmingham, UK, and Beirut, Lebanon, just in the past weeks.