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Reference no. 9-101-092
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: Robert S Kaplan (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2001
Version: 5 August 2003
Length: 4 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Profitability analysis; Activity-based costing; Cost accounting; Cost allocation; Cost analysis; Cost systems; Pricing
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Abstract

The president of Wilkerson, faced with declining profits, is struggling to understand why the company is encountering severe price competition on one product line while able to raise prices without competitive response on another product line. The controller proposes that the company develop an activity-based cost model to understand better the different demands that each product line makes on the organization's indirect and support resources. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
Location:
Florida
Industry:
Primary metals
Other setting(s):
1989
Teaching note
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Reference no. 5-104-002
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: Robert S Kaplan (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2003
Version: 1 November 2023
Revision date: 11-Dec-2023
Length: 13 pages
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Compact case
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Reference no. 9-106-058
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: Robert S Kaplan (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2006
Version: 21 September 2006
Length: 5 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Profitability; Strategic planning; Product lines; Budgeting
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Case
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Reference no. 9-106-S19
Spanish language
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: Robert S Kaplan (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2006
Version: 5 August 2003
Revision date: 4-Apr-2019
Length: 5 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Profitability analysis; Activity-based costing; Cost accounting; Cost allocation; Cost analysis; Cost systems; Pricing
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Case
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Reference no. 9-108-S03
Spanish language
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: Robert S Kaplan (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2007
Version: 21 September 2006
Revision date: 4-Apr-2019
Length: 6 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Profitability; Strategic planning; Product lines; Budgeting
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Compact case
Case
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Reference no. 9-114-C01
Simplified Chinese language
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: Robert S Kaplan (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2013
Version: 5 August 2003
Length: 4 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Profitability analysis; Activity-based costing; Cost accounting; Cost allocation; Cost analysis; Cost systems; Pricing
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Supplementary software
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Reference no. XLS007
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: Robert S Kaplan (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Published in: 2010
Format: .xls
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Profitability analysis; Activity-based costing; Cost accounting; Cost allocation; Cost analysis; Cost systems; Pricing
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Abstract

The president of Wilkerson, faced with declining profits, is struggling to understand why the company is encountering severe price competition on one product line while able to raise prices without competitive response on another product line. The controller proposes that the company develop an activity-based cost model to understand better the different demands that each product line makes on the organization's indirect and support resources. A rewritten version of an earlier case.

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Location:
Florida
Industry:
Primary metals
Other setting(s):
1989

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Teaching note
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Reference no. 5-104-002
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: Robert S Kaplan (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2003
Version: 1 November 2023
Revision date: 11-Dec-2023
Length: 13 pages
View full details
Compact case
Case
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Reference no. 9-106-058
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: Robert S Kaplan (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2006
Version: 21 September 2006
Length: 5 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Profitability; Strategic planning; Product lines; Budgeting
View full details
Compact case
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Reference no. 9-106-S19
Spanish language
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: Robert S Kaplan (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2006
Version: 5 August 2003
Revision date: 4-Apr-2019
Length: 5 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Profitability analysis; Activity-based costing; Cost accounting; Cost allocation; Cost analysis; Cost systems; Pricing
View full details
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Reference no. 9-108-S03
Spanish language
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: Robert S Kaplan (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2007
Version: 21 September 2006
Revision date: 4-Apr-2019
Length: 6 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Profitability; Strategic planning; Product lines; Budgeting
View full details
Compact case
Case
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Reference no. 9-114-C01
Simplified Chinese language
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: Robert S Kaplan (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2013
Version: 5 August 2003
Length: 4 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Profitability analysis; Activity-based costing; Cost accounting; Cost allocation; Cost analysis; Cost systems; Pricing
View full details
Supplementary software
-
Reference no. XLS007
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: Robert S Kaplan (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Published in: 2010
Format: .xls
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Profitability analysis; Activity-based costing; Cost accounting; Cost allocation; Cost analysis; Cost systems; Pricing
View full details
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