Goodbye Job Cost Accountancy--Dickeson

They've successfully shifted because they had to. New, powerful information available to them on their intranets, extranets and the Internet made it essential. Supply-chain management using the Internet is becoming a way of life. With activity-based costing, those industries are focusing on nonuse and misuse—reducing the cost of not doing—while improving quality and satisfying customers. We can't just sit here batting our eyes like a frog in a hailstorm, sweeping all our nonuse and misuse under the chargeable job cost rug any longer. The Internet won't go away.