Imagine if you reviewed the titles and content of The
New York Times best-selling business books or of Harvard
Business Review articles from the last 25 years. How many
of them might cause you to react with a chuckle and say,
“Oh, that one”? Do you remember any of the items in the
following list? (Warning: Some advocates or book authors
may be offended.)
N Quality circles (for total quality management, or
TQM)
N One minute manager
N Business process reengineering (BPR)
N Management by objectives (MBOs)
N Six Sigma
N Matrix management
N Core competency
N Intrapreneuring
N Search for excellence
N Best practices
N Management by walking around (MBWA)
I’m not saying those practices served no purpose. They
did introduce useful ideas, but they didn’t live up to their
promises as they ascended. Many organizations jump
from one improvement program to another, hoping that
each new one will provide that big competitive edge, only
to discover with hindsight that it was just a method du
jour. Most managers would acknowledge that pulling one
lever for improvement rarely results in a substantial
change—particularly a long-term sustained change. And
the business media haven’t helped. They hype what’s
fashionable at the time, mostly because that’s their role.
Will the management accounting trends that I describe
here take root or be just another fad or fashion?
Management Accounting Eras
First let’s look at some history. Figure 1 illustrates a
humorous but valid timeline of the shifts in accounting:
1. Ancient Era—Rocks and stone piles.
2. Medieval Era—Piles of precious metal and paper
money. This situation ultimately led to the book pub-
lished in 1494 by Luca Pacioli, an Italian mathematician
and Franciscan friar, titled Summa de arithmetica, geome-
tria, proportioni et proportionalità. It dealt with Hindu-
Arabic arithmetic and its offshoot, algebra, and contained
Pacioli’s 27-page treatise on Venetian accounting that
described double-entry bookkeeping.
Imagine if you reviewed the titles and content of The
New York Times best-selling business books or of Harvard
Business Review articles from the last 25 years. How many
of them might cause you to react with a chuckle and say,
“Oh, that one”? Do you remember any of the items in the
following list? (Warning: Some advocates or book authors
may be offended.)
N Quality circles (for total quality management, or
TQM)
N One minute manager
N Business process reengineering (BPR)
N Management by objectives (MBOs)
N Six Sigma
N Matrix management
N Core competency
N Intrapreneuring
N Search for excellence
N Best practices
N Management by walking around (MBWA)
I’m not saying those practices served no purpose. They
did introduce useful ideas, but they didn’t live up to their
promises as they ascended. Many organizations jump
from one improvement program to another, hoping that
each new one will provide that big competitive edge, only
to discover with hindsight that it was just a method du
jour. Most managers would acknowledge that pulling one
lever for improvement rarely results in a substantial
change—particularly a long-term sustained change. And
the business media haven’t helped. They hype what’s
fashionable at the time, mostly because that’s their role.
Will the management accounting trends that I describe
here take root or be just another fad or fashion?
Management Accounting Eras
First let’s look at some history. Figure 1 illustrates a
humorous but valid timeline of the shifts in accounting:
1. Ancient Era—Rocks and stone piles.
2. Medieval Era—Piles of precious metal and paper
money. This situation ultimately led to the book pub-
lished in 1494 by Luca Pacioli, an Italian mathematician
and Franciscan friar, titled Summa de arithmetica, geome-
tria, proportioni et proportionalità. It dealt with Hindu-
Arabic arithmetic and its offshoot, algebra, and contained
Pacioli’s 27-page treatise on Venetian accounting that
described double-entry bookkeeping.
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