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Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 11 / 2012 (576)

Accounting’s shift to decision-based costing

Gary COKINS
SAS Institute Inc., Cary, North Carolina, USA
Sorinel CĂPUŞNEANU
“Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, Bucharest
Sorin BRICIU
“1 Decembrie 1918” University, Alba Iulia

Abstract. Managers are increasingly shifting from reacting to after-the-fact outcomes to anticipating the future with predictive analysis and proactively making adjustments with better decisions. Despite some advances in the application of new costing techniques, are management accountants adequately satisfying the need for better cost planning information? Or is the gap widening?

Keywords: management accounting; cost; decision; information; planning.

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