In part accounting was to blame for serving the needs of external parties rather than of managers and for not recognizing the altered logistics of industrial production: It was largely believed that enterprise management had become more complex, and internal financial reporting and cost management practices had not kept pace. The changes proposed in management accounting debates on how actual resource consumption could more closely align with financial reports resource consumption. Costing had to be about physically following the resources and tracking organizational processes. Ultimately, the management accounting function was exhorted to look at resource flows so as to make more transparent the links between physical movement and cost accumulation, and to observe and report upon the creation of value in action it’s had to confront more directly physical production flows before seeking to report on their financial consequences (Bhimani 2003).