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Taylor's Contribution To Cost Accounting, A Reply, Rosita S. Chen, Sheng-Der Pan

Accounting Historians Journal

We respond to those issues that M. C. Wells raised in his comments on our article. We found that his comments on the association of scientific management and cost accounting, and on Taylor's historical role in cost accounting were debatable, and his discussion of the first modern book on cost accounting was inconclusive.