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Anthony identified three types of cost, three types of activity, but only two types of formal accounting-based system. 1. 1 Analysing systems in terms of the costs which they are being used to control Anthony's Classification Cost Example Control Source Information Techniques Discipline Committed Capital QuantitativeTime value Economics Risk Mathematics investment Analysis Management Managed Any Qualitative Judgement Social control 'managerial Persuasion psychology activity' Operational Engineered Direct Quantitative Standard Economics Physical costs control product Variance sciences cost analysis Strategic planning offer as suppliers of relevant managerial information.
1 Analysing systems in terms of the costs which they are being used to control Anthony's Classification Cost Example Control Source Information Techniques Discipline Committed Capital QuantitativeTime value Economics Risk Mathematics investment Analysis Management Managed Any Qualitative Judgement Social control 'managerial Persuasion psychology activity' Operational Engineered Direct Quantitative Standard Economics Physical costs control product Variance sciences cost analysis Strategic planning offer as suppliers of relevant managerial information.
It has parallels in clinical medicine. Action research lies in this methodological domain. There are, in this tradition, no clear rules for inference. The task is not only to observe and describe phenomena but to explain them in a plausible and aesthetically pleasing way. Thus great dependency is laid upon: (i) accuracy and honesty of observation; (ii) sensitivity and perception of the observer; (iii) imaginative interpretations of observations. This method is close to what Plato called episteme, which embodies awareness of the known, of the knower and of knowing.