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throughput accounting  

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  • Throughput accounting (TA) is a managerial accounting methodology that gives primacy to the identification and elimination of a system's operating constraints. As opposed to cost accounting, throughput accounting methods do not allocate costs to products or activities. [Source: Encyclopedia of Health Care Management; Throughput Accounting]

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