> -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > För Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > Skickat: den 30 september 2012 15:18 > Till: [email protected] > Ämne: Re: Another Light goes out > > In > <of5f9fc7b7.58700431-on48257a88.002b14ff-48257a88.002ea...@sg.ibm.com>, > on 09/29/2012 > at 04:29 PM, Timothy Sipples1 <[email protected]> said: > > >I'm beginning to wonder if good cost accounting and financial analysis > >are lost arts in many "western" corporations, in the "production" and > >"production-related" portions of their businesses. > > If your bonuses are based on 90 day cash flow, what are you going to > optimise? As long as corporate decisions are driven by short term > fluctuations in the stock prices, you are going to see decisions with > adverse long-term consequences. >
Is this a self-amplifying process ? I'm afraid that it is so. Or at least a self-sustaining process. We need to analyze what environment parameters benefits long-term planning businesses and does *not* benefit 90 day corporates. And propagate those environments. Thru laws if nothing else. Regards, Thomas Berg _______________________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist AM/SM&S SWEDBANK AB (publ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
