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[QUOTE=fjtorres;2855151Not all big companies fall prey to rule by beancounter, okay?([/QUOTE]
I've got to agree with a lot of what you say but mostly I need to correct an error I made. I didn't intend to imply that companies should be ruled by financial managers. I ended up doing that but I didn't intend to. What I believe, and intended to say, was that a company that ignores its finances will fail. A company that ignores quality & customer service will also fail-but quality & customer service aren't enough by themselves. To succeed a company also has to look at costs. Cost/benefit analyses are the responsibility of accountants. Assignment of value to assets that are difficult to value may be the job of non-accountants but once those assets are valued it's up to the accountants, IMO, to determine whether or not the costs of those assets outweigh their value.
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