<div class="page photo" style=""> <article> <header style=" background-image:url(/imageLibrary/calculator-385506_1280.jpg); "> <div class="box"> <div class="intro" style="color: #ffffff;"> <h1 style="color: #ffffff !important;">Found Poetry </h1> <p class="summary"></p> </div> </div> </header> <div class="main"> <div class="container"> <p class="byline">James Rimmer </p> <p><span style="font-family: monospace;">The following is a free form stanza from an accounting textbook, the ever lyth <em>Management Accounting, XI Edition</em> by <em>Charles T. Horngren, Gary L. Sundem, William O Stratton, and Philip Beaulieu. </em></span><br><br><span style="font-family: Georgia;">"Note that the relevant information is a prediction of the future, not a summary of the past. Historical (past) data have no <em>direct</em> bearing on a decision. Such data can have an <em>indirect</em> bearing on a decision, because they may help in predicting the future. But past figures, in themselves, are irrelevant to the decision itself. Why? Because the decision cannot affect past data. Decisions affect the future. Nothing can alter what has already happened"<span style="font-family: monospace;"></span></span><span style="font-family: monospace;"> [Italics are as in the source text]</span><br><br><span style="font-family: monospace;">Haunting isn't it? The authors really bring up the eerly, unrelenting nature of life, forever trapped in past decisions, forever making new ones. </span></p> </div> </div> </article> </div><!-- /page-->