Explaining Value Added -- Dickeson

Let's get back to that point of deflection between materials and processing costs. We can attribute real dollars to materials by job. Once we do that, we can make pricing estimates we can depend on. We can't do so with processing costs. (And aren't we really doing that anyway?) Of course that might put some accountants, estimators and statisticians temporarily out of a job—until they dedicate themselves to supplying information that's really useful to decisions that have to be made.