Scrooge Manning the Books --Dickeson

It's time—it's past time—for us to move to a system of weekly cash basis accounting for commercial printing. We have to predict to manage, and the numbers must be logical and readily understandable.

Go ahead and let Bob keep doing your cost accounting and general ledger books as you always have, but put the reports in a dark closet. Get them out only for tax purposes and for bankers who need paper records to satisfy bank examiners and who believe in the living Cratchitt.