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Title (click on title for details)Author(s)PagesTNSettingFunctional AreaLevelEP
Apogee Health Care
A complex case dealing with an incentive compensation system for physicians in a partially capitated model. A simplified version of Massachusetts General Physicians Organization.
Young, David W.
12 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
ADV Add
Bandon Medical Associates (A)
The students must build a budget using cost drivers in a somewhat complex setting.
Young, David W.
4 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Bandon Medical Associates (B)
The students must use variance analysis to determine why a budgeted surplus became an actual loss.
Young, David W.
6 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Barça Products, S.A.
A new management control system is floundering because the CEO does not see its value. Part of the problem is that the reports either tell him what he already knows or contradict what he knows.
Young, David W.
3 Yes
For Profit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Barrington High School
Introduces students to the balanced scorecard in a nonprofit organizations and illustrates some of the behavioral issues associated with its implementation.
Young, David W.
7 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Barrington Products, Inc
A multi-product company with a dysfunctional management control system. Lots of interesting issues to be resolved.
Young, David W.
4 Yes
For Profit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Boulder Public Schools
Provides students with an opportunity to look at both structure and process issues in a highly bureaucratic context, and to consider the appropriate balance between centralization and decentralization in a management control system.
Young, David W.
9 No
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Carleton Fire Department
Discusses non-financial performance measurement in a nonprofit organization -- in this case a fire department. Students must determine the measures that are valid and useful and then assess how to use them.
Young, David W.
5 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Centro Italiano Sviluppo
Zero-based budgeting in the Italian healthcare system. Goes beyond ZBB to many interesting control issues.
Young, David W.
10 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Clinique Nosral
A combination budgeting and variance analysis case set in a central African country. The variance is tricky since no salary information is available.
Young, David W.
4 No
Developing Country
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Commonwealth Business School
A proposal for a new management control system to account for faculty time is met with some resistance. Students must assess the reports.
Young, David W.
11 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Conejo (El) Auto Clinic (A)
Students must build a budget in a relatively simple situation using cost drivers.
Young, David W.
2 Yes
For Profit
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Conejo (El) Auto Clinic (B)
The case shows a large budget overrun, and students must use the same cost drivers to do a variance analysis.
Young, David W.
5 Yes
For Profit
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Conejo (El) Family Planning Clinic
A family planning clinic has overspent its budget. A staff analyst must do a variance analysis. Among other things, students need to interpret the flexible budget that he has prepared. They then must compute variances, some of which are a little tricky.
Young, David W.
6 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Converse Health System
Addresses two major issues facing an integrated delivery system ( IDS) in promoting goal congruence: the design of financial responsibility centers and the selection of an appropriate transfer pricing methodology. It helps students to see that, in a truly integrated IDS, treating hospitals (and other providers) as standard expense centers and using two-part transfer prices can help to improve goal congruence.
Young, David W.
9 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Easter Seal Foundation of New Hampshire and Vermont Popular Item
The (A) case presents an organization in financial difficulties, and a new CEO has just taken over. Students must propose changes to the management control system and other organizational features. The (B) case (short enough for an in-class handout) describes what he did, and students are asked to assess his actions.
Young, David W.
15 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Enager Industries, Inc. Popular Item
A classic case on investment centers and their pitfalls. Updated to eliminate all references to dates.
Reece, James S.
5 Yes
For Profit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Erie Hospital
A pretty basic capital budgeting case involving a physician who has a lot of power. Requires the students to think about the interest rate for donated funds in computing the weighted cost of capital, and also to think about sunk costs. Essentially the same as Erie Chemical Company)
Young, David W.
2 Yes
Healthcare Management
Finance/Financial Management
Management Control Systems
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
Franklin Health Associates (A) Popular Item
A case that allows students to assess the linkages among strategy, structure, and the management control system. Lots of problems to find and solve. (An extension of Franklin Group Practice)
Young, David W.
10 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Franklin Health Associates (B)
A tricky variance analysis case, building on the (A) case. It has a few unusual twists that usually fool the students.
Young, David W.
4 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Haas School of Business
An ethics case in which students must debate the wisdom of a dean’s decision to supplement university-capped faculty salaries with some executive education programs. Boils down to means versus ends.
Anthony, Robert N.
Young, David W.
7 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
Organizational Behavior
INT Add
Hillside Hospital
The saga of a chief of medicine attempting to implement a group practice in a teaching hospital in order to abide by university salary caps. The implementation process is complicated by a new billing system that provides inaccurate information. Identical to Hamilton Hospital, but set in a department of medicine instead of surgery.
Young, David W.
9 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
Organizational Behavior
INT Add
Hospital San Pedro
A letter from an upset citizen describes how a health system works in reality. Students must prepare a flow chart based on the letter, and then recommend changes.
Garcia-Prat
Young, David W.
3 Yes
Health Policy
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
Operations Management
BEG Add
Housing Finance Agency Popular Item
The head of the housing agency is evaluating the program to encourage more rental construction. At issue is whether a project selection system is working appropriately.
Young, David W.
7 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Levinton, Town of
A case on pricing water services where there are two prices needed: (1) to hook into the system and (2) for ongoing use. Many issues around cross-subsidization among various user groups.
Young, David W.
5 Yes
Nonprofit
General Management
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Lomita Hospital (A) Popular Item
The chief of pathology must prepare a budget under conditions of uncertainty, and with some question about whether he has been appropriately structured as a discretionary expense center.
Young, David W.
8 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Los Reyes Hospital (A) Popular Item
The A case provides students with some basic cost drivers that they can use to build a budget, which they are required to do, and also to consider ways to cut it. The (B) case shows that the (A) case budget has been exceeded, and the students must compute the appropriate variances, and recommend a course of action.
Young, David W.
2 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Los Reyes Hospital (B) Popular Item
The A case provides students with some basic cost drivers that they can use to build a budget, which they are required to do, and also to consider ways to cut it. The (B) case shows that the (A) case budget has been exceeded, and the students must compute the appropriate variances, and recommend a course of action.
Young, David W.
4 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
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
Milan Sanitation Department
The creation of profit centers in a municipal repair garage has changed worker incentives, and greatly improved productivity. The manager must decide what to do now that the initial luster has worn off.
Young, David W.
3 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Moray Junior High School Popular Item
A junior high school principal in a school-based system is faced with some difficult budget cuts. Students can put the budget on a spreadsheet and play with the possibilities. Given the constraints the principal faces, nothing appears to work.
Young, David W.
6 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
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
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
New Wave Hair Salon (B)
A management control system case in which poorly designed responsibility centers and bonus arrangements have led to goal incongruent behavior. There also is a fairness issue. The presenting issue is that the bonuses have been earned even though the hair salon ran a deficit.
Young, David W.
6 Yes
For Profit
Management Control Systems
INT 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
North Lincoln
A description of the building of a budget in a small state government. Illustrates various types of game playing, and machinations that people use to obtain resources. Includes a director of fiscal affairs trying unsuccessfully to introduce “rationality” into a system where stakeholders get their needs met because of the system’s irrationality.
Young, David W.
17 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Note on Budget Formulation in Nonprofit Organizations
Discusses the technical aspects of preparing a budget, and the fit of the budgetary process with a variety of other aspects of the organization. Begins by looking at the organizational and strategic context in which budgeting takes place, and distinguishes the mechanical aspects of budgeting from the behavioral ones. It then look at the mechanical aspects of building a budget, and concludes with a discussion of budgeting misfits—areas where the budgetary process does not work as well as it might because it does not fit well with other organizational systems or processes. Has a practice case with a solution at the end.
Young, David W.
13 No
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Note on Budget Ploys
An adaptation of the appendix to budgeting in the Anthony & Young text.
Anthony, Robert N.
Young, David W.
8 No
For Profit
Nonprofit
General Management
Management Control Systems
Organizational Behavior
BEG Add
Note on Capital Budgeting Popular Item
Discusses, payback period, net present value, and internal rate of return; the effect of taxes and how accelerated depreciation can turn a potentially unfavorable project into a favorable one; issues related to the choice of a discount rate, including the weighted cost of capital, and the weighted return on assets; techniques for incorporating risk into the analysis; the evaluation of non-quantitative considerations; and the link of the capital budgeting process to an organization’s authority and influence process. Has an appendix on the concept of present value, and a short practice case to help students solidify their understanding.
Young, David W.
16 No
For Profit
Finance/Financial Management
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Note on Flexible Budgeting and Variance Analysis Popular Item
Discusses some important aspects of the measurement phase of the management control process: (1) the importance of aligning responsibility with control, (2) flexible budgeting, and (3) variance analysis. Has a simple, and easily understandable graphical explanation of variances, as well as the computation formulas. Also discusses the managerial uses and limitations of variances. Has a short practice case to help students solidify their understanding.
Young, David W.
11 No
For Profit
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Note on Implementing a New Responsibility Accounting System in a Nonprofit Organization
Describes the characteristics of a good responsibility accounting system, and then discusses some of the issues that need to be considered in implementing a new sysgem
Young, David W.
8 No
For Profit
Nonprofit
General Management
Management Control Systems
Organizational Behavior
INT Add
Note on Improving Management Control Systems in Municipalities
Discusses the barriers to achieving the New Public Management Paradigm, and suggests ways that improved management control systems (including the use of “shadow profit centers”) can help to overcome them.
Young, David W.
13 No
Nonprofit
Public Sector Management
General Management
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Note on Leadership
Discusses the 7 levers that leaders can use to guide their organizations toward high performance. Links leadership to Chester Barnard’s Functions of the Executive, and contrasts the 7 levers with the McKenzie Ss in the 7S-model.
Young, David W.
11 No
For Profit
Nonprofit
General Management
Management Control Systems
Organizational Behavior
INT 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 Control Systems
Discuses the structure and process of a management control system and the considerations involved in designing an appropriate one. Is highly interactive—students are asked to respond to questions and solve problems throughout the chapter, and also to prepare a short case study on transfer prices at the end of the chapter.
Young, David W.
27 No
For Profit
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Note on Management Control Systems in Health Care Popular Item
Discusses MCS mainly with a focus on hospitals and attending physicians. Topics include responsibility center design, the use of cost drivers to build budgets and calculate variances, an assessment of who controls which resources, and how to involve attending physicians in the cost control effort.
Young, David W.
15 No
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Note on Management Control Systems in the Public Sector
Contrasts “bureaucratic” control with “management control” and discusses ways that public sector organizations could achieve greater management control. Concludes that, although there are several barriers that inhibit a public sector organization from developing improved managerial control, there also are ways to overcome the barriers.
Young, David W.
11 No
Nonprofit
General Management
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Note on Managing High-Risk Outsourcing In Local Governments
Discusses the idea that not all outsourcing is the same, and provides a framework for identifying high-risk outsourcing. Then discusses ways to manage it.
Padovani, Emanuele
Young, David W.
5 No
Nonprofit
General Management
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Note on Motivation
Discusses the many issues involved in motivating employees, including the role of contingent compensation. Links the motivation process to several other organizational processes, such as culture and management control.
Young, David W.
10 No
For Profit
Nonprofit
General Management
Management Control Systems
Organizational Behavior
INT Add
Note on Operational Budgeting
Discusses an approach to budgeting that links the budgetary process with an organization's strategy, programs, and organizational structure. Identifies several "budgeting misfits;" i.e., places where the budgeting process does not fit well with other organizational activities.
Young, David W.
25 No
For Profit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Note on Operational Budgeting in Health Care Popular Item
Covers (a) the organizational and strategic contexts in which operational budgeting takes place. (b) the mechanical aspects of operational budgeting, (c) the key elements in the budgetary process, (d) the relationship between budgeting and responsibility centers, and (e) the definition of a budgeting misfit, and seven common budgeting misfits. Has a practice case at the end with a very detailed solution.
Young, David W.
23 No
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Note on Performance Measurement in Nonprofit Organizations Popular Item
Discusses the need for output measurement in nonprofit organization to (1) measure efficiency, which is the ratio of outputs to inputs (i.e., expenses) and (2) measure effectiveness, which is the extent to which actual output corresponds to the organization's goals and objectives. Looks at alternative ways of measuring output in nonprofit organizations. Discusses why, despite the importance of devising such alternatives, current nonprofit management control systems tend to be deficient in measuring their effectiveness, and suggests some remedies.
Young, David W.
16 No
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Note on Pricing in Nonprofit Organizations Popular Item
Discusses the tricky proposition of setting prices in many nonprofit organizations. Full costs, differential costs, or a variety of other configurations can be used to determine prices. The choice depends in large measure on the scenario under consideration. Unfortunately, many nonprofit managers give little thought to pricing policies. The note discusses why this is a mistake, and includes several matters that affect pricing decisions in nonprofit organizations, including prices for subsidized services and services that are provided free of charge.
Young, David W.
9 No
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
ADV Add
Note on Responsibility Accounting
Discusses the relationship between cost accounting and responsibility accounting, and then looks at several factors that must be considered in designing a responsibility accounting system. Examines the responsibility accounting structure, which consists of the organization’s network of responsibility centers, the management control process, and some of the issues that senior managers must consider if they are to make either profit or investment centers work as effectively as possible. Concludes with the topic of motivation, and presents some recent thinking on various ways to reward managers and others for good performance, as well as a brief discussion of some of the informal aspects that can influence the success of a given responsibility center design, in particular ways individuals in organizations gain power and influence outside the formal responsibility center network.
Young, David W.
19 No
For Profit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Note on the Financial Control Structure in Nonprofit Organizations
Discusses the design of responsibility centers. Expands the discussion to include criteria for profit centers, the program structure, matrix organizations, the information structure, the account structure, and behavioral factors (including motivation systems, goal congruence, cooperation and conflict, and culture).
Young, David W.
16 No
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Note on The Seven Leadership Levers Used by Successful Managers
Discusses the role of severn "leadership levers" that a manager can use to lead help his/her organization achieve success. The levers comprise (1) strategy formulation, (20 authority and influence, (3) management control, (4) motivation, (5) conflict management, (6) culture management, and (7) customer management.
Young, David W.
21 No
For Profit
Nonprofit
General Management
Management Control Systems
Marketing
Organizational Behavior
INT Add
Note on the Technical Aspects of Programming in Nonprofit Organizations
Discusses the technical issues inherent in the programming phase of the management control process. Includes the importance of undertaking a benefit-cost analysis when some of the benefits may not be easily quantified. Also discusses techniques for "quantifying the value of a human being."
Young, David W.
17 No
Nonprofit
Nonprofit Organization Management
Public Sector Management
Finance/Financial Management
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Note on Transfer Pricing
Discusses the various issues that must be considered in setting transfer pricing, and how they can be resolved.
Young, David W.
9 No
For Profit
Nonprofit
General Management
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Note on Transfer Pricing in Healthcare Organizations
A short note that illustrates quite dramatically to students the basic transfer pricing dilemma in many organizations. Set in a healthcare context, but could be used for other courses as well.
Young, David W.
5 No
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
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
Pacific Park School (B)
A follow on to the (A) case. Requires students to prepare a variance analysis to explain why the budgeted surplus was not attained.
Young, David W.
2 Yes
Nonprofit
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
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Popular Item
The chair of anesthesiology is fighting many battles on many fronts. Students must first define his strategy in comparison to that of the hospital and the medical school. They then must assess a new incentive compensation system he has designed in light of how the department’s responsibility centers are structured.
Young, David W.
18 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
ADV Add
Rovereto, Town of
A question of whether to purchase new snow plows for a city or to let the existing ones go and use private contractors for the snowplowing service
Young, David W.
4 Yes
Nonprofit
General Management
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Santaló, S.A.
A geographically diversified European conglomerate is attempting to determine how much autonomy to give to its sales offices. At issue is a major transfer pricing problem in that products cost differently depending on the country from which they are sourced. There are also questions about overhead allocations and the extent to which a sales office manager can really control the elements for which he/she is being held responsible.
Young, David W.
7 Yes
For Profit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Southern Seattle University Health System (A)
Similar to Southern State UHS, but in two parts. In the A case, students must consider the responsibility center structure in the department of medicine, and assess how the budget has been constructed. In the B case, they are given enough data to build a budget themselves on a spreadsheet, using cost drivers.
Young, David W.
9 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
Organizational Behavior
INT Add
Southern Seattle University Health System (B)
Similar to Southern State UHS, but in two parts. In the A case, students must consider the responsibility center structure in the department of medicine, and assess how the budget has been constructed. In the B case, they are given enough data to build a budget themselves on a spreadsheet, using cost drivers.
Young, David W.
4 Yes
Healthcare Management
Nonprofit
General Management
Management Control Systems
Organizational Behavior
BEG Add
Southern State University Health System Popular Item
This case allows students to (a) work with the concept of responsibility centers in a department of medicine, (b) define lines of business, and (c) assess the feasibility of a business plan by a division within the department. At issue is the balance among teaching, research, and clinical care.
Young, David W.
10 No
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Spruce Street Shelter Popular Item
A relatively simple case on the subject of flexible budgeting, but it raises enough issues concerning the use of the reports that it can easily be used for an entire class session. It provides a nice lead-in to somewhat more complex variance analysis cases.
Young, David W.
3 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Timilty Middle School Popular Item
A new program called Project Promise has been introduced to an inner-city middle school. From all indications it is a great success. Then, the school system’s budget director raises some complicating issues. Students must decide how successful the program has been, and whether it is worth its cost.
Young, David W.
13 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Tru-Fit Parts, Inc.
Enables students to gain insights in two areas of control system design. First, it illustrates (in the transfer pricing area) that some problems are not completely soluble, and that a system with only a few problems may be better than an evident alternative. Second, the case illustrates how a myopic view of control systems can create problems; in two instances the company considered a specific behavioral aspect of a measurement scheme, but neglected to recognize the possibility of undesirable side effects of its approach.
Reece, James S.
3 Yes
For Profit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
United Medical Center Popular Item
Set in the context of a hospital that is attempting to develop a management control system in response to the constraints imposed upon it by Medicare's diagnosis-related group (DRG) form of reimbursement. The control system contains a set of reports that meets many of the criteria for good reports: they are hierarchical, they distinguish between controllable and non-controllable costs, and they focus on personal responsibility. There nevertheless are some important unanswered questions about the way the control system works, and some improvements that could be made to the reports. In addition, physicians are resisting the system.
Kane, Nancy M.
Young, David W.
6 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
Organizational Behavior
INT Add
University Day Care Center Popular Item
Requires students to identify several reasons for a variance between budget and actual, and to make the appropriate calculations. There are several related issues that they also must deal with, such as pricing, staffing, and supply costs, all of which serve to complicate the analysis.
Young, David W.
7 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Urban Arts Institute Popular Item
This case concerns a budgeting system that is unresponsive to senior management's needs. Several changes are needed to align the system with the organization's new strategy. The case can be taught on either a technical or a conceptual level (or both), depending on the instructor's interests and his or her goals for the course.
Young, David W.
15 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Valley Hospital
A fairly basic case on transfer pricing, but one that illustrates the problem of goal congruence rather neatly. Students should have little or no trouble making the computations, such that most of the discussion can focus on the issues and how to resolve them.
Young, David W.
2 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
Vershire Company
An updated and slightly modified version of the classic Empire Glass Company case. Has all of the fun of Empire, but the company makes cans instead of bottles.
Govindarajan, V.J.
Anthony, Robert N.
7 Yes
For Profit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
White Hills Architects, Inc. Popular Item
Introduces some real-world complexities into a transfer pricing decision. Market price works when there is an unambiguous market price, but in this instance, it is not clear that the two jobs are the same, which means that the prices might legitimately differ. The case also includes some important behavioral issues. It is a bit like the classic Birch Paper, and is a for-profit version of White Hills Children's Museum.
Young, David W.
3 Yes
For Profit
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
White Hills Children's Museum Popular Item
Introduces some real-world complexities into a transfer pricing decision. Market price works when there is an unambiguous market price, but in this instance, it is not clear that the two jobs are the same, which means that the prices might legitimately differ. The case also includes some important behavioral issues. It is a bit like the classic Birch Paper.
Young, David W.
3 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
White Hills Medical Center
Introduces some real-world complexities into a transfer pricing decision. Market price works when there is an unambiguous market price, but in this instance, it is not clear that the two jobs are the same, which means that the prices might legitimately differ. The case also includes some important behavioral issues. It is a bit like the classic Birch Paper, and is similar to While Hills Children's Museum.
Young, David W.
3 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
BEG Add
White Mountain Health Care
A case that links strategy with management control. It is set in a department of surgery in a major medical center that is working in a capitation system. The chief of surgery must be concerned about resource use, motivation, conflict management, and a variety of other tricky management issues. He also must worry about balancing clinical care activities with research and education.
Young, David W.
22 Yes
Healthcare Management
Management Control Systems
INT Add
WIC Program Popular Item
A quite complex case with many issues. To analyze it, students must prepare a managerially-oriented flow chart, which presumably will be more useful than the flowchart contained in the body of the case. The important distinction is that the managerially-oriented flowchart will show key decision points, which the students can then analyze, using data in the case, in order to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the voucher processing activities of the WIC Program. However, further analysis will show that voucher processing is a red herring; there is much more going on.
Young, David W.
9 Yes
Nonprofit
Management Control Systems
INT Add
Wolfboro Engineering, Inc.
Allows students to experiment with the idea of residual income. On the surface, the computations are simple, but each question can stimulate considerable discussion about the most desirable approach to take.
Young, David W.
3 Yes
For Profit
Management Control Systems
BEG Add