As a discipline, we think of IMC as an investment in communication, but accountants see this as an expense. This creates problems of revenue-stream recognition. Thus, apparently suitable measures of IMC become inappropriate when closely examined from an accounting perspective. There are no easy answers, but attempts must be made to improve the situation. Such measures as ROI (Ambler et al. 2002; Kitchen and Schultz 2001), return on touch point investment (ROTPI) (Schultz, Cole, and Bailey 2004), and improvements in brand equity and customer equity (Duncan and Mulhern 2004; Hutton 1996; Keller 1993) are useful, but must be seen in the context in which marketing inputs are accounted for in the balance sheet and income statements.