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- Title
An Accounting System Structured on a Linear Programming Model.
- Authors
Demski, Joel S.
- Abstract
For purposes of exposition and application, a linear programming formulation of the planning process was postulated. Recent application of the proposed approach indicates that this is a feasible approach to generation of control information. And, in fact, the application's results are highly encouraging. First, important deficiencies in the traditional accounting system were observed. Since this traditional model is not an opportunity cost system per se, the most it can be expected to do is to signal the existence of opportunities. In the period analyzed it did signal the existence of deviations although their source and effect were obscured. A second, and more subjective result, is that application has given every indication that this type of approach is indeed feasible (which should not be confused with an assertion that it is desirable from a cost and value viewpoint). Consequently, it is appropriate to suggest that additional research be done in an effort to examine such issues as the extent to which accounting variances should be aggregated, given a specific decision model, or the extent to which decisions made in response to certain deviations should be considered in the accounting system.
- Subjects
ACCOUNTING; LINEAR programming; NONLINEAR programming; ECONOMETRIC models; PRODUCTION scheduling; OPPORTUNITY costs; CAPITAL investments; COST analysis
- Publication
Accounting Review, 1967, Vol 42, Issue 4, p701
- ISSN
0001-4826
- Publication type
Article