Scrooge Manning the Books --Dickeson

We must have decision support information by 8 a.m. every Monday morning following the close of a week, not two weeks following the close of some moon phase. Put the week's numbers in the context of a rolling quarter of 13 weeks.

Those of us involved in management of printing companies have known for years that Budgeted Hourly Rates were misleading nonsense—not usable for current predictions and decisions. No surprise at all that modern scholars and writers no longer commend cost accounting as a management decision support.