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Subject:Re: What we do & Activity-based costing From:Chet Ensign <Chet_Ensign%LDS -at- NOTES -dot- WORLDCOM -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 12 Jun 1995 09:47:32 EDT
Has anyone on the list had any experience with activity-based costing? Although
many good articles have been written about the value trained technical
communicators bring to a company, it is a hard sell when the company's
accounting system doesn't capture and report statistics that make that value
evident. I've run across some brief discussions of activity-based accounting
recently, and it appears to be an approach that can monitor the value added
throughout the manufacturing process.
