Let's Keep It Simple--Dickeson

". . .Printers don't want to use any type of variance analysis. Sometimes we look pretty dumb. . .and do you really want to know what happened. . .are we that inept?"

Just too, too embarrassing. . .that sums it up.

We're wallowing around in quicksand. Here we are with expensive computer systems for which we paid a bunch of money to give us results that we don't trust. And really don't use. Yes, it's embarrassing. Wally told us 28 years ago that unless we reconciled cost regularly with general ledger values we'd probably be inconsistent.