On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 03:20:18 GMT, "Rick Brandt" wrote:


You've never worked for a company that manufactures stuff have you?

Marketing (NOT accounting) might provide a price-point that their research
indicates a product needs to be at to be competitive and the
design/engineering/manufacuring departments might be given a mandate to meet
that price point by top level management, but there are no "accountants" telling
anyone where to cut costs.

Not necessarily WHERE to cut costs, but bean counters most definitely tell the
manufacturing folks TO cut costs. In a lot of cases, the bean counters RUN the
corporation.

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