This is really interesting because I was in business school almost thirty years and a cost accounting professor used almost this exact example, only with photoc

This is really interesting because I was in business school almost thirty years and a cost accounting professor used almost this exact example, only with photocopiers and fax machines to illustrate how you can cost a company to death. He would have considered that company to be running a perfectly controlled cost experiment. Though it was so perfectly controlled they forgot that humans actually did the work. With cost accounting projects, you pay morale and staffing charges well after the project itself was costed. I hadn’t thought of that since the late 90s. Good comment but how the heck did I get that old??? :)