To implement accrual accounting across the board, what would the cost entailed in that be? At the end of the day, there's an economic factor. If you want to bring about overall change...I know you've been studying the matter, and I know that this process has been taking place for years, but there's a cost element associated with bringing about new information systems, training people, making sure management understands the information. Taking all that cost into account versus the economic loss due to the fact that we are not using accrual accounting, is there a trade-off?
We lose possibly hundreds of millions of dollars due to the fact that we don't use accrual accounting. How much would it cost to implement accrual accounting?