The article analyzes the impact of neo-industrial economy on the theory and practice of management accounting. The author proposes the methods of management accounting organization in a flexible manufacture environment. The tools include the combination of job-order cost and process-costing, mutual adaptation of Activity-Based Costing and Theory of Constraints.
Keywords: flexible production system, mass customization, management accounting, process-costing, job-order cost, theory of constraints
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