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  • The Uneasy Alliance: Managing the Productivity-Technology Dilemma

Accounting Lag: The Obsolescence of Cost Accounting Systems

By: Robert S. Kaplan
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Cost Accounting

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Kaplan, Robert S. "Accounting Lag: The Obsolescence of Cost Accounting Systems." Chap. 5 in The Uneasy Alliance: Managing the Productivity-Technology Dilemma, edited by R. Hayes, K. Clark, and C. Lorenz, 195–226. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1985.

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Robert S. Kaplan

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