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57 Items Found in Management Accounting: New/Updated Item  New/Updated Item  |   Popular Item  Popular Item

Title (click on title for details)Author(s)PagesTNSettingFunctional AreaLevelEP
Abbington Health Care
A basic breakeven analysis with multiple products
Young, David W.
3 No
Healthcare Management
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Abbington Youth Center Popular Item
Breakeven analysis for multiple products. A newly-minted MBA gets in trouble when he doesn't check his assumptions with key managers. A bit like the classic Bill French case.
Young, David W.
3 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Baldwin Bicycle Company Popular Item
A now-classic case on computing the differential costs and revenues for a special price offer. Updated to eliminate all references to years.
Reece, James S.
3 Yes
For Profit
Management Accounting
INT Add
Bellington, Town of
The supervisor of the snow removal department is being accused of overspending his budget, but part of the reason was more snow
Young, David W.
2 No
Nonprofit
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Boston University Medical Center Hospital Popular Item
Describes a “bundled pricing” approach to managed care contracting. Bundled pricing is a contracting strategy whereby a hospital and its physicians share the risk of a fixed price contract. The case raises many questions regarding managed care pricing strategies and hospital-physician relationships. Students must analyze the financial implications of the hospital's contracting strategy and propose an implementation approach that provides appropriate incentives for the physicians while minimizing the hospital's risk.
Young, David W.
9 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Accounting
Organizational Behavior
INT Add
Carlsbad Home Care Popular Item
An introductory breakeven case for students with no prior experience with breakeven analysis. The case is designed to (1) to teach the concept and techniques or breakeven analysis, (2) to clarify the difference among fixed, variable, and step-function costs, and (3) to demonstrate the relationship of costs and revenue to volume.
Young, David W.
2 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Carroll University Hospital Popular Item
A full cost accounting case set in a department of medicine, illustrating how different ways of defining cost result in different costs. Similar to Croswell University Hospital.
Young, David W.
10 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Casa Electrónica, S.A. Popular Item
A keep/discontinue alternative choice decision case for a small electronics firm in Latin America. A CVP analysis suggested that a new product would be profitable, but the accountant's report now shows it is losing money.
Young, David W.
2 Yes
Developing Country
For Profit
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Cortland Manufacturing Company
An ABC case with a health care spin. Very similar to Wizard Manufacturing
Young, David W.
3 Yes
For Profit
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Croswell University Hospital Popular Item
A full cost accounting case set in a department of Ob-Gyn, illustrating how different ways of defining cost results in different costs. Similar to Carroll University Hospital.
Young, David W.
10 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Energy Devices Popular Item
Gives the student some basic practice in CVP analysis and differential cost analysis. It Is used as a practice case with a solution in some of the Notes.
Young, David W.
1 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Forenna, Cittá di
Two towns in Italy use quite different approaches to managing the vendors to whom they have outsourced waste collection. The manager of one town is being criticized for not using the techniques of his counterpart, and is responding that his town is different and therefore requires different techniques. Students must decide who is right and why.
Padovani, Emanuele
Young, David W.
5 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Accounting
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Forner Carpet Popular Item
A classic case on differential pricing decisions in a competitive marketplace. Students usually confuse unit fixed costs with unit variable costs.
Reece, James S.
3 Yes
For Profit
Management Accounting
INT Add
Harbor City Community Center Popular Item
A full cost accounting case in which students must prepare a fairly complicated stepdown analysis. In the course of doing so, they gain an appreciation for many of the tricky decisions involved in such an effort.
Young, David W.
4 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Harbor City Electric
A full cost accounting case in a regulated environment. Similar to the other Harbor City cases, but with some unusual twists that make it quite different.
Young, David W.
5 Yes
For Profit
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Harbor City Health Spa Popular Item
A full cost accounting case where students must prepare a stepdown analysis. In doing so, they gain an appreciation for many of the tricky decisions involved in such an effort. Essentially the same as Harbor City CC, but in a for-profit context.
Young, David W.
4 Yes
For Profit
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Harlan Foundation Popular Item
Two situations that require different approaches to pricing. Illustrates an important point about pricing and also about the measurement of costs: different purposes require different pricing principles and therefore different cost constructions.
Anthony, Robert N.
3 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Huntington Beach
A road construction project has gone over budget. Students must compute the relevant variances, some of which are a little tricky, and then decide how much more (if anything) the city should pay to the contractor. A good case for role playing.
Young, David W.
2 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Huron Automotive Company Popular Item
A classic case in which costs change as cost centers change. Students must calculate the costs and explain why the changes occurred. They then must make some alternative choice decisions based on the available information.
Reece, James S.
5 Yes
For Profit
Management Accounting
INT Add
Import Distributors
A differential cost/revenue analysis associated with the decision to keep a product line that is losing money on a full-cost basis.
Young, David W.
2 Yes
For Profit
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Jebah Hospital
Like Croswell and Carroll but in a centrally-funded system with no prices
Young, David W.
8 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Jefferson High School
A full cost accounting case in which changing cost centers changes costs. Students need to compute the different costs and then assess which system is the best. Also moves in the direction of ABC.
Young, David W.
6 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Jefferson Multi Media, Inc. Popular Item
A full cost accounting case in which changing cost centers changes costs. Students must compute the different costs and then assess which system is the best. Also moves toward of ABC
Young, David W.
6 Yes
For Profit
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Lakeside Hospital Popular Item
A keep/drop alternative choice decision for a dialysis unit that has gone from making to losing money. Students must work with a full-blown full cost analysis and determine how costs will behave. Two version are available ($250/Tx and $410/Tx). The decision maker is a MD chief of staff in the $250 case and a MHA in the $410 case.
Young, David W.
5 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Accounting
INT Add
Landau Company Popular Item
A case demonstrating the difference between full and variable costing. The TN includes an in-class exercise that does a very nice job of illustrating the distinction between absorption and variable costing, and the reason for overhead volume variances
Reece, James S.
3 Yes
For Profit
Management Accounting
INT Add
LCC Labs Popular Item
A case similar to the well-known Liquid Chemical Company case. Requires students to assess the implications of a complicated outsourcing decision.
Young, David W.
2 Yes
For Profit
Management Accounting
INT Add
Lomita Hospital (B)
A relatively simple variance analysis case for the pathology lab. Allows students to see how information in the A case could be improved upon.
Young, David W.
4 No
Healthcare Management
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Management Accounting for Managers Popular Item
This primer is written for students studying management accounting for the first time, and for senior and mid-level managers who use management accounting in their day-to-day activities but who do not aspire to become management accountants. It assumes no prior formal exposure to management accounting concepts or techniques, and, while it demonstrates several techniques in some detail, its primary emphasis is on the use of management accounting information, not its preparation. As such, the primer's goal is to help managers be more effective in a business environment where an understanding of management accounting is important to success. Moreover, the primer aims to give readers an improved ability to communicate with their organizations’ accountants to help assure that the management accounting information provided to line managers and others is as useful as possible for decision making.
Young, David W.
265 No
For Profit
Management Accounting
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Management Accounting in Healthcare Organizations
Begins with an overview of the challenges facing healthcare systems throughout the world, which sets the stage for subsequent 11 chapters. Chapters 2 to 5 discuss full and differential cost accounting, including ABC. Chapters 6 to 11 discuss the management control system. Chapter 12 puts the management control system into a broader context. Book contains short problems to solve throughout each chapter, and each chapter is followed by one or two practice case studies, with solutions provided.
Young, David W.
257 No
Healthcare Management
Financial Analysis and Management
Management Accounting
Management Control Systems
I-A Add
Management Control in Nonprofit Organizations Popular Item
The 11th edition of this popular text. Updated to include new data and new concepts.
Young, David W.
461 No
Healthcare Management
Nonprofit Organization Management
Public Sector Management
Financial Analysis and Management
Management Accounting
Management Control Systems
I-A Add
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
An early version of activity-based costing in a health care environment. The case was written about 30 years ago, and was recently resurrected. It has been by many instructors over the years as an example of how cost drivers can be used for budgeting and cost management in a hospital.
Young, David W.
O'Brien, Patricia
11 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Mercancía, S.A.
A keep or discontinue decision with a fairly complicated set of data. Much like Import Distributors, but a little simpler.
Young, David W.
4 Yes
Developing Country
For Profit
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Narcolarm, Inc. (A)
This is a series of cases designed for an introductory accounting course. Each case can be introduced at various points in the course. In the (A) case, students must create a beginning balance sheet from some very basic information. The (B) case contains a solution to the (A) case and a set of 10 activities for the first year of operations; students are asked to use T accounts to create an end-of-year balance sheet. The (C) case is much like the (B) case but adds some complications, including manufacturing inventories; it also asks the students to prepare two income statements (from the B case and from the C case) and to compare them, thereby illustrating the impact of costs being held in manufacturing inventories. The (D) case removes manufacturing inventories, and asks the students to prepare a statement of cash flows. The (E) case asks the students to do a CVP analysis and also to consider a make/buy decision. In each case, students are asked to consider the viability of the venture.
Young, David W.
2 Yes
For Profit
Financial Accounting
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Narcolarm, Inc. (B)
This is a series of cases designed for an introductory accounting course. Each case can be introduced at various points in the course. In the (A) case, students must create a beginning balance sheet from some very basic information. The (B) case contains a solution to the (A) case and a set of 10 activities for the first year of operations; students are asked to use T accounts to create an end-of-year balance sheet. The (C) case is much like the (B) case but adds some complications, including manufacturing inventories; it also asks the students to prepare two income statements (from the B case and from the C case) and to compare them, thereby illustrating the impact of costs being held in manufacturing inventories. The (D) case removes manufacturing inventories, and asks the students to prepare a statement of cash flows. The (E) case asks the students to do a CVP analysis and also to consider a make/buy decision. In each case, students are asked to consider the viability of the venture. Cases can be mixed and matched depending on the goals of the instructor.
Young, David W.
2 Yes
For Profit
Financial Accounting
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Narcolarm, Inc. (C)
This is a series of cases designed for an introductory accounting course. Each case can be introduced at various points in the course. In the (A) case, students must create a beginning balance sheet from some very basic information. The (B) case contains a solution to the (A) case and a set of 10 activities for the first year of operations; students are asked to use T accounts to create an end-of-year balance sheet. The (C) case is much like the (B) case but adds some complications, including manufacturing inventories; it also asks the students to prepare two income statements (from the B case and from the C case) and to compare them, thereby illustrating the impact of costs being held in manufacturing inventories. The (D) case removes manufacturing inventories, and asks the students to prepare a statement of cash flows. The (E) case asks the students to do a CVP analysis and also to consider a make/buy decision. In each case, students are asked to consider the viability of the venture. Cases can be mixed and matched depending on the goals of the instructor.
Young, David W.
2 Yes
For Profit
Financial Accounting
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Narcolarm, Inc. (D)
This is a series of cases designed for an introductory accounting course. Each case can be introduced at various points in the course. In the (A) case, students must create a beginning balance sheet from some very basic information. The (B) case contains a solution to the (A) case and a set of 10 activities for the first year of operations; students are asked to use T accounts to create an end-of-year balance sheet. The (C) case is much like the (B) case but adds some complications, including manufacturing inventories; it also asks the students to prepare two income statements (from the B case and from the C case) and to compare them, thereby illustrating the impact of costs being held in manufacturing inventories. The (D) case removes manufacturing inventories, and asks the students to prepare a statement of cash flows. The (E) case asks the students to do a CVP analysis and also to consider a make/buy decision. In each case, students are asked to consider the viability of the venture. Cases can be mixed and matched depending on the goals of the instructor.
Young, David W.
2 Yes
For Profit
Financial Accounting
Management Accounting
BEG Add
National Youth Association
A transfer pricing case similar to the Birch Paper Company case but in a nonprofit setting
Anthony, Robert N.
2 No
Nonprofit
Management Accounting
Management Control Systems
Organizational Behavior
INT Add
Neighborhood Servings Popular Item
A meals-on-wheels type organization has made a shift in strategy, and its cost accounting system has become outdated. Students must undertake a reasonably simple activity-based costing analysis to find out the “true cost” of each meal type.
Young, David W.
5 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Accounting
BEG Add
New Wave Hair Salon (A)
The manager of a hair salon is building a budget for the upcoming year. There are many assumptions being made, including how the stylists will respond to monetary incentives.
Young, David W.
2 Yes
For Profit
Management Accounting
Management Control Systems
Organizational Behavior
BEG Add
North Lake Medical Center Popular Item
A medical center is building a budget using five "cost drivers" (case mix, volume, resources per case, variable cost per resource unit, and fixed costs). The drivers must be linked, such that when a clinical care department orders a test from the laboratory, the laboratory's budget is affected. An important issue is the nature of the design of the organization's responsibility centers.
Young, David W.
11 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Accounting
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Note on Absorption and Variable Costing
Same as the above, but includes the distinction between absorption costing and variable costing, the advantages and disadvantages of each, the cause of a difference between income under the two approaches, the reason why there can be an overhead volume variance under absorption costing, but not under variable costing, and the impact of just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing operations on the differences between absorption and variable costing.
Young, David W.
41 No
For Profit
Management Accounting
INT Add
Note on Activity-Based Costing Popular Item
Gives students the basics of ABC. Contains a detailed example for them to work while reading the note and a practice case study with a solution at the end of the note.
Young, David W.
9 No
For Profit
Healthcare Management
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Note on Differential Cost Accounting in Health Care
Discusses cost behavior and alternative choice decisions in some detail
Young, David W.
19 No
Healthcare Management
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Note on Full and Differential Cost Accounting Popular Item
The discussion of full cost accounting includes a conceptual framework for thinking about full costs, how to prepare a full cost analysis, including a stepdown, and the impact of different choices on prices. The discussion of differential cost accounting includes an explanation of cost behavior, the differential cost concept, the dilemma of sunk costs, the strategic perspective of sunk costs, examples of keep/drop and make/buy alternative choice decisions, non-quantitative considerations, and the role of allocated overhead.
Young, David W.
30 No
For Profit
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Note on Full and Differential Cost Accounting in Health Care
The note discusses full cost accounting, its uses, and the managerial choices that are involved in setting up a full-cost accounting system. It then discusses differential cost accounting, addressing the nature of costs, defining several terms and concepts, and taking up the subject of cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis. It then looks at CVP analysis in its most basic form. It also examines a variety of special considerations that can serve to complicate CVP analysis. Finally, the note discusses when differential costs should be used rather than full costs, and some of the complications in using them.
Young, David W.
38 No
Healthcare Management
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Note on Full Cost Accounting in Health Care
Describes full cost accounting in both Stage 1 and Stage 2 (with ABC) using healthcare examples
Young, David W.
17 No
Healthcare Management
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Note on Management Accounting in Context
Discusses management control system design, and its link to activities such as strategy formulation, culture, customer management, conflict management, and motivation. Contains a managerial checklist and a practice case study.
Young, David W.
15 No
For Profit
Nonprofit
General Management
Management Accounting
Management Control Systems
Organizational Behavior
BEG Add
Note on Management Accounting in Health Care
Similar to the Note on Management Control Systems in Health Care, but with the additional discussion of full and differential cost accounting.
Young, David W.
19 No
Healthcare Management
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Note on the Folly of Using RCCs and RVUs for Intermediat Product Costing
Shows how RCCs and RVUs can give misleading information on the cost of a hospital's intermediate products, and how an ABC system can improve costing accuracy
Young, David W.
7 No
Health Policy
Healthcare Management
Finance/Financial Management
Management Accounting
INT Add
Owen Hospital
A case that demonstrates the power of ABC. The case requires students to attach the costs from a full cost report to two apparently similar patients, who end up having quite different costs.
Young, David W.
4 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Pacific Park School (A)
A relatively simple case in preparing a budget for a school's summer camp program. Requires students to think about how to deal with capital improvements and whether a financial surplus is appropriate.
Young, David W.
2 Yes
Nonprofit
Nonprofit Organization Management
Management Accounting
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Piedmont University
A college is considering the designation of each of its schools as a profit center. Several issues must be resolved before a decision can be made, including, among others, how to deal with central administrative costs, libraries, computer support, and cross registration.
Anthony, Robert N.
3 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Accounting
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Scarpe Italiane
An ABC case with a tricky differential cost (keep/discontinue) decision. Students need to work with manufacturing overhead allocation, ABC, overhead variances, and variable costing. They also need to see the big picture, which includes a new product line that, while covering its manufacturing overhead, is making a very small contribution to selling, general, and administrative costs.
Young, David W.
3 Yes
For Profit
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Sonsonala (A)
The (A) case has a twofold focus: (1), to project a budget for pharmaceuticals in a developing country based on the cost drivers of morbidity patterns, required drug regimens, and unit costs, and to focus on ways in which the budget might be cut if necessary; (2), to prepare a modified version of a breakeven analysis for some community pharmacies. The (B) case focuses on the financing of a revolving fund for essential drugs. The case is deceptively simple since a revolving drug fund that is either growing in size or operating in an inflationary economy needs a constant injection of working capital. This case uses some calculations that were made in the (A) case.
Young, David W.
3 Yes
Developing Country
Health Policy
Finance/Financial Management
Management Accounting
INT Add
Sonsonala (B)
The (A) case has a twofold focus: (1), to project a budget for pharmaceuticals in a developing country based on the cost drivers of morbidity patterns, required drug regimens, and unit costs, and to focus on ways in which the budget might be cut if necessary; (2), to prepare a modified version of a breakeven analysis for some community pharmacies. The (B) case focuses on the financing of a revolving fund for essential drugs. The case is deceptively simple since a revolving drug fund that is either growing in size or operating in an inflationary economy needs a constant injection of working capital. This case uses some calculations that were made in the (A) case.
Young, David W.
2 Yes
Developing Country
Health Policy
Finance/Financial Management
Management Accounting
INT Add
Springfield Visiting Nurse Association
A decision as to whether to use full-time or agency nurses, and where the breakeven is between the two options. Similar to the other “Springfield” cases.
Young, David W.
2 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Accounting
BEG Add
Wizard Manufacturing, Inc.
A case that requires students to compare traditional product costing and ABC. They must make computations under both approaches and then discuss why ABC is an improvement over the traditional approach. The protagonist is Harry Potter and the product is brooms.
Young, David W.
3 Yes
For Profit
Management Accounting
BEG Add