Current Cost Accounting in the Mining Industry - 1

Is your company paying taxation on profits which are partly illusory?ò Are unions making wage demands based on erroneous notions of the real level of value added to your companyÆs production?ò Do you receive historic data on profit contributions by different products, or for different market areas, which you feel may be misstated?ò Do you find that cash is not always readily available to pay dividends out of reported earnings because, it is required to finance additional working capital without a real increase in the level of activity?ò Are your planning and budgeting routines hampered by the need to rely on historic financial data which bear little resemblance to what the future may hold for your company?ò Are you able to maintain your business at its optimum operating capability or do you feel each year that it becomes more and more difficult to achieve the same volumes of prdduction at the same level of return on assets employed without having to raise more capital?If your answer to any of these questions is "yes", then it is very likely that Current Cost Accounting (CCA) has something to offer you!characteristics of the mining industry and for single venture mining operations.