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Paragon Electronics, Inc.: Inventory Cost Flow
Haskins, Mark E.; Parker, MontyCase DARDEN-C-1076-EAccounting and ControlThis case provides the basis for exploring issues pertaining to different cost flow assumptions and their working capital consequences. Students make various cost flow calculations for inventory and cost of goods sold using FIFO, LIFO, and the weighted-average techniques over a five-year time frame, during which inventory prices and quantities rise and fall. It quickly becomes apparent that accounting choices are related to significant managerial...Starting at €8.20
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John Deere Component Works (A) (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.; March, ArtemisCase HBS-115S03Accounting and ControlThe 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.Starting at €8.20
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Electronic Testing Operations (Spanish version)
Cooper, Robin; Turney, Peter B.B.; Ittner, Christopher D.Case HBS-106S03Accounting and ControlExplores the obsolescence of a cost system when technology changes. In particular, it asks students to increase the number of cost center and allocation bases. The firm moves from a one-center, direct labor-hour system to a three-center, direct labor-hour and machine-hour systems.Starting at €8.20
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Kanthal (A) (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.Case HBS-106S08Accounting and Controlthose who buy standard products in large predictable quantities with minimal demands on technical resources.Starting at €8.20
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Destin Brass Products Co. (Spanish version)
Bruns, William J., Jr.Case HBS-102S13Accounting and ControlA specialized manufacturer of brass valves, pumps, and flow controllers is troubled by competitive pricing in pumps and higher than expected margins for flow controllers. Managers suspect that cost accounting and cost allocations to products may be to blame. Two volume-based systems are described and illustrated.Starting at €8.20
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Brief Introduction to Cost Accounting (Spanish version)
Bruns, William J., Jr.Case HBS-119S02Accounting and ControlIntroduces the reasons for and basics of cost accounting and cost management systems. Simple definitions of forms used in cost accounting are included. Cost behavior is discussed. Questions to which answers are needed when analyzing or designing a cost system are summarized.Starting at €8.20
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Relevant Costs and Revenues (Spanish version)
Schleifer, Arthur , Jr.Case HBS-803S09FinanceBasic background material for decision making under certainty and under uncertainty. Provides a framework under which a variety of costs and revenues, resulting from substitution, complementarity, capacity, etc., can be identified as relevant.Starting at €8.20
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Precision Worldwide, Inc. (Spanish version)
Bruns, William J., Jr.Case HBS-107S23Accounting and ControlA competitor has developed and introduced a superior product that is less costly to manufacture. Precision Worldwide must decide whether to match the competitor's product, when to do so, and how to price, given that it holds a large inventory of its now inferior product.Starting at €8.20
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Lehigh Steel (Spanish version)
Narayanan, V.G.; Donohue, Laura E.Case HBS-107S10Accounting and ControlLehigh Steel is a specialty steel manufacturer that plummeted from record profits to record losses in less than three years, driven by an inability to distinguish between profitable and unprofitable business. The scale and growth of service activities and overhead costs in an increasingly customized product line suggests that activity-based costing (ABC) could unlock the secrets of profitability. However, the high fixed-cost structure suggests th...Starting at €8.20
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Wilkerson Co. (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.Case HBS-106S19Accounting and ControlThe 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 ...Starting at €8.20