Subject category:
Finance, Accounting and Control
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 4 November 1998
Length: 19 pages
Data source: Field research
Abstract
The division has recognized the inadequacies of its existing, traditional cost system for estimating product costs. Describes the innovative activity-based system that was developed to more accurately trace overhead costs to individual products. Provides students with the opportunity to critique a standard cost system and to assess the characteristics of the proposed system that traces costs to production activities.
Location:
Industries:
Size:
USD3.1 billion sales
Other setting(s):
1985
Subject category:
Finance, Accounting and Control
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 19 May 1999
Length: 22 pages
Data source: Field research
Subject category:
Finance, Accounting and Control
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 15 May 1990
Length: 8 pages
Data source: Field research
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Abstract
The division has recognized the inadequacies of its existing, traditional cost system for estimating product costs. Describes the innovative activity-based system that was developed to more accurately trace overhead costs to individual products. Provides students with the opportunity to critique a standard cost system and to assess the characteristics of the proposed system that traces costs to production activities.
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Location:
Industries:
Size:
USD3.1 billion sales
Other setting(s):
1985
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Subject category:
Finance, Accounting and Control
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 19 May 1999
Length: 22 pages
Data source: Field research
Subject category:
Finance, Accounting and Control
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 15 May 1990
Length: 8 pages
Data source: Field research