Let's Keep It Simple--Dickeson

So, we wallow on in the deep quicksand we created, blaming everyone but ourselves. Blame the customer, blame the crews, blame the suppliers, blame the weather. Did we miss anybody?

But when we run out of blame, let's sit down and figure out what we're really going to do. Okay. . .I'm listening.

We can't use the books of account for management decisions. General Ledger Accounting is always a rear-view mirror. Can't use job cost accounting because it's 99 percent wrong and we don't, and shouldn't, trust it.