The results of a survey of recent managerial and cost accounting textbooks suggest that professional service firms have been largely ignored in cost and managerial accounting courses. With the purpose of identifying possible areas for research, this paper presents several managerial accounting concepts that are typically approached form a manufacturing orientation which could as easily be presented from a service viewpoint.
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