| Abbington Health Center
|
| A case requiring a breakeven analysis with multiple products. There are some interesting twists with faulty assumptions. Identical to Abbington Youth Center and Jiao Tong Hospital
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3
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
Abbington Youth Center
|
| 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. |
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3
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| ABC vs. XYZ
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| Preparing two SCFs and comparing the results. Has a couple of twists. |
| |
3
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
|
| |
15
|
Yes
|
| Health Policy |
| Healthcare Management |
| |
ADV
|
Add
|
|
| |
15
|
Yes
| | |
ADV
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Add
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| 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. |
| |
12
|
Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
ADV
|
Add
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|
| |
3
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Athenaeum School
|
| One of the few cases that illustrates the impact of the 1996 FASB standards 116 and 117 for nonprofits. Has 1996 in both the old and new formats |
| |
14
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Yes
| | |
INT
|
Add
|
|
| |
4
|
Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
|
| |
6
|
Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
BEG
|
Add
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| 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. |
| |
3
|
Yes
| |
| 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. |
| |
7
|
Yes
| |
| 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. |
| |
4
|
Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
INT
|
Add
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|
| |
6
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
INT
|
Add
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| Boise Park Healthcare Foundation (B)
|
| A follow on to the (A) case, but could be taught independently. Requires students to assess whether cash or accrual accounting should be used by a rate setting commission to approve a request for a rate increase. |
| |
4
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
INT
|
Add
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| Boston University Medical Center Hospital
|
| 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. |
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9
|
Yes
| |
| Management Accounting |
| Organizational Behavior |
|
INT
|
Add
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| 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. |
| |
9
|
No
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
BEG
|
Add
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|
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5
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
BEG
|
Add
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| Brookstone Ob-Gyn Associates (B)
|
| The (A) case is a very simple introduction to financial accounting. The (B) case (which can be taught without the (A) case) begins with the (A) case results, and asks students to figure out why a profitable group practice is running out of cash. |
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6
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
| Bureau of Child Welfare
|
| A combination of an evaluation and a capital budgeting case applied to adoptions, where the city "invests" in an adoption to save the ongoing cost of foster care. |
| |
4
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
|
INT
|
Add
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|
| |
15
|
Yes
|
| Developing Country |
| Healthcare Management |
|
| Management Control Systems |
|
INT
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Add
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| CareGroup, Inc.
|
| Contains the financial statements for the years up to and including the serious financial difficulties experienced by this organization. |
| |
15
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
INT
|
Add
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| Carlsbad Home Care
|
| 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. |
| |
2
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Carroll University Hospital
|
| 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. |
| |
10
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Carson Housing Authority (A)
|
| An introductory financial accounting case designed to familiarize students with the balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows (same as Carson Realty but in a nonprofit context). (A) case is pretty simple, but a disaster is looming and most students don't see it. |
| |
1
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Carson Housing Authority (B)
|
| An introductory financial accounting case designed to familiarize students with the balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows (same as Carson Realty but in a nonprofit context). (A) case is pretty simple, but a disaster is looming and most students don't see it. |
| |
2
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Carson Realty Company (A)
|
| An introductory financial accounting case designed to familiarize students with the balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows. (A) case is pretty simple, but a disaster is looming and most students don't see it. |
| |
1
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Carson Realty Company (B)
|
| An introductory financial accounting case designed to familiarize students with the balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows. (A) case is pretty simple, but a disaster is looming and most students don't see it. |
| |
2
|
Yes
| | |
INT
|
Add
|
| Casa Electrónica, S.A.
|
| 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. |
| |
2
|
Yes
|
| Developing Country |
| For Profit |
| |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Central Valley Primary Care Associates
|
| A physician in a small group practice must prepare a capitation bid to a managed care plan, but the data for doing so are inadequate. Students must determine what data are needed to complete the analysis. |
| |
5
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Centro Italiano Sviluppo
|
| Zero-based budgeting in the Italian healthcare system. Goes beyond ZBB to many interesting control issues. |
| |
10
|
Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
INT
|
Add
|
| Centuria Health System
|
| Describes an institution that was successful in preparing for a managed care environment. Describes three distinct historical periods: the early period during which the institution was known as the “sleeping giant”, the transitional period typified by attention to staff and the development of a set of values, and the present period. Can be taught as part of a sequence on managing change, and works well with the McKinsey 7S model. |
|
| Barrett, Diana |
| Young, David W. |
|
14
|
Yes
| | |
INT
|
Add
|
| Cittá di Forenna
|
| 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
| |
| Management Accounting |
| Management Control Systems |
|
BEG
|
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. |
| |
4
|
No
|
| Developing Country |
| Healthcare Management |
|
| Management Control Systems |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
| Clinton Sporting Supplies
|
| Combines a new product introduction with an outsourcing decision. Students need to think about the way overhead is allocated and the differential costs associated with the new production. |
| |
2
|
Yes
| | |
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. |
| |
11
|
Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
INT
|
Add
|
| Commonwealth University
|
| A relative simple transfer pricing case that helps students master the very basic computations. It serves as a practice case with a solution in some of the notes. |
| |
2
|
Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
|
| |
2
|
Yes
| |
| 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. |
| |
5
|
Yes
| |
| 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. |
| |
6
|
Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
| Conglomerate, Inc. (A)
|
| A physician in charge of health care premiums in a large division of a Fortune 10 company is trying to devise ways to keep costs down. The (A) case has him looking at lots of data and trying to exercise leverage on providers to adopt his approaches by contracting with only one managed care plan. In the (B) case, his apparently successful plan falls apart when a large customer of another of the company's divisions (who lost revenue as a result of the cost-containment approaches) threatens to withhold purchases unless the new approaches are abandoned |
| |
12
|
No
| | |
INT
|
Add
|
| Conglomerate, Inc. (B)
|
| A physician in charge of health care premiums in a large division of a Fortune 10 company is trying to devise ways to keep costs down. The (A) case has him looking at lots of data and trying to exercise leverage on providers to adopt his approaches by contracting with only one managed care plan. In the (B) case, his apparently successful plan falls apart when a large customer of another of the company's divisions (who lost revenue as a result of the cost-containment approaches) threatens to withhold purchases unless the new approaches are abandoned |
| |
2
|
No
| | |
INT
|
Add
|
| Consumers Union
|
| Looks at how the five forces affecting CU's industry have changed with the arrival of Internet competition for many of its services. Students must assess CU's strategy and how it should be changed. They also must consider how CU's activity set needs to be adjusted to fit with the new strategy. |
|
| Young, David W. |
| Noble, David |
|
19
|
Yes
| | |
ADV
|
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. |
| |
9
|
Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
INT
|
Add
|
|
| |
5
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
INT
|
Add
|
|
| |
3
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Crimson Chair Company
|
| An absorption versus variable costing case for a manufacturer of wheelchairs. It has some tricky twists.
|
| |
3
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Croswell University Hospital
|
| 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. |
| |
10
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Determination of Need Program
|
| A lengthy case describing a wide variety of issues surrounding the elimination of a certificate of need program in a state that has passed market-oriented healthcare legislation. |
| |
30
|
No
| | |
INT
|
Add
|
| Docs in a Box, Inc.
|
| A relatively basic financial accounting case concerning a start-up company. Has been used successfully as a test of students mastery of introductory material. |
| |
1
|
Yes
|
| For Profit |
| Healthcare Management |
| |
BEG
|
Add
|
|
|
| Young, David W. |
| Noble, David |
|
0
|
No
| | |
ADV
|
Add
|
| Easter Seal Foundation of New Hampshire and Vermont (A)
|
| 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. |
| |
15
|
Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
INT
|
Add
|
| Easter Seal Foundation of New Hampshire and Vermont (B)
|
| 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. |
| |
4
|
Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
INT
|
Add
|
| Energy Associates (A)
|
| The A case (quite easy) requires the student to prepare a SCF (direct and indirect) from some very basic information. Thy B Case requires calculating some ratios for the same company and the same years. |
| |
2
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
| Energy Associates (B)
|
| The A case (quite easy) requires the student to prepare a SCF (direct and indirect) from some very basic information. Thy B Case requires calculating some ratios for the same company and the same years. |
| |
2
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
| Energy Associates (C)
|
| Gives the student some basic practice in CVP analysis and differential cost analysis. Is used as a practice case with a solution in some of the Notes. |
| |
1
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Energy Devices, Inc. (A)
|
| The A case (quite easy) requires the student to prepare a SCF (direct and indirect) from some very basic information. The B Case requires calculating some ratios for the same company and the same years. Same figures as Energy Associates but in a for-profit context. |
| |
2
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
| Energy Devices, Inc. (B)
|
| The A case (quite easy) requires the student to prepare a SCF (direct and indirect) from some very basic information. The B Case requires calculating some ratios for the same company and the same years. Same figures as Energy Associates but in a for-profit context. |
| |
2
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
| Energy Devices, Inc. (C)
|
| Gives students some practice in preparing a CVP analysis and undertaking some differential cost analyses. Same figures as Energy Associates but in a for-profit context. Also a practice case with a solution in some of the Notes. |
| |
1
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
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) |
| |
2
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
| Management Control Systems |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
| Fletcher Allen Health Care
|
| A lengthy case describing a failed attempt to implement a new strategy and a new management control system. Students must assess where the control system could have been better designed as well as why the implementation effort failed. |
| |
22
|
Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
| Organizational Behavior |
|
INT
|
Add
|
| Franklin Health Associates (A)
|
| 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) |
| |
10
|
Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
INT
|
Add
|
|
| |
4
|
Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
INT
|
Add
|
| Gotham Meals on Wheels
|
| Students must prepare a spreadsheet that links the balance sheet, operating statement, and statement of cash flows, and then use forecasted sales and expenses to uncover the reasons underlying an impending cash shortage. |
| |
2
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
| Gourmet Delights, Inc.
|
| Students must prepare a spreadsheet that links the balance sheet, operating statement, and statement of cash flows, and then use forecasted sales and expenses to uncover the reasons underlying an impending cash shortage. Same as Gotham but in a for-profit context. |
| |
2
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
|
| |
7
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
|
INT
|
Add
|
| Granville Symphony Orchestra
|
| Some unusual accounting that makes a surplus look like a deficit. Students must reconstruct an unusual operating statement to show this. In addition, they must assess the assumptions underlying an eight year set of financial forecasts. |
|
| Anthony, Robert N. |
| Young, David W. |
|
6
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
| Green Valley Medical Center
|
| A capital budgeting case with some interesting twists. Students must determine an interest rate for equity and compute a weighted cost of capital. They then must compare two projects: a PET scanner and new laundry equipment, using both NPV and a subjective assessment instrument designed to incorporate physician, community, and employee impact of a proposed project. The Laundry project has the higher IRR but guess which project will be chosen? The teaching note was updated in April 2007 |
| |
8
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
|
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
| |
| Management Control Systems |
| Organizational Behavior |
|
INT
|
Add
|
| Hamilton Hospital
|
| The saga of a chief of surgery 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. |
| |
9
|
Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
| Organizational Behavior |
|
INT
|
Add
|
| Harbor City Community Center
|
| 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. |
| |
4
|
Yes
| | |
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.
|
| |
5
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Harbor City Health Spa
|
| 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. |
| |
4
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Heartbreak of DRGs
|
| A chief of dermatology is preparing a program proposal for an Ambulatory Psoriasis Treatment Center. He faces a number of complications, including reimbursement incentives. Students must complete a capital investment analysis and compute NPV. |
| |
5
|
No
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
|
INT
|
Add
|
| Hilda Cook
|
| The saga of a 90 year old woman diagnosed with liver cancer, demonstrating the need for greater coordination among hospitals, primary care physicians, and attending doctors. |
| |
5
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
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. |
| |
9
|
Yes
| |
| 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
|
| 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. |
| |
7
|
Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
| Huntington Avenue
|
| A road construction project has gone over budget. Students must compute the relevant variances, some of which are a little tricky. Same as Huntington Beach but in a for-profit context. |
| |
2
|
Yes
| | |
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. |
| |
2
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Huntington Hospital
|
| A relatively simple case in which students must use three months of data to develop a cost equation and then perform a breakeven analysis. |
| |
1
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Huntington Products, Inc.
|
| A relatively simple case in which students must use three months of data to develop a cost equation and then perform a breakeven analysis. Same as Huntington Hospital but in a for-profit context. |
| |
1
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| J. Prep Company (A)
|
| Three introductory financial accounting cases. The (A) and (B) cases require balance sheets only. The (A) case is a startup, where the owner is not managing cash well. The (B) case introduces a bank loan. The (C) case is the same as (B) except it requires students to prepare an income statement. |
| |
3
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| J. Prep Company (B)
|
| Three introductory financial accounting cases. The (A) and (B) cases require balance sheets only. The (A) case is a startup, where the owner is not managing cash well. The (B) case introduces a bank loan. The (C) case is the same as (B) except it requires students to prepare an income statement. |
| |
2
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| J. Prep Company (C)
|
| Three introductory financial accounting cases. The (A) and (B) cases require balance sheets only. The (A) case is a startup, where the owner is not managing cash well. The (B) case introduces a bank loan. The (C) case is the same as (B) except it requires students to prepare an income statement. |
| |
2
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Jebah Hospital
|
| Like Croswell and Carroll but in a centrally-funded system with no prices |
| |
8
|
Yes
| | |
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. |
| |
6
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Jefferson Multi Media, Inc.
|
| 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 |
| |
6
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Jiao Tong Hospital
|
| A variation on the Bill French case but set in a Chinese Hospital, using three departments. Also under discussion is the possibility of eliminating a department that is a loser on a full-cost basis. Students must assess the department’s contribution as well as the methodology to determine full costs. |
| |
3
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Job Enrichment Division (A)
|
| The (A) case requires students to use some budget drivers to build a budget for the training division of a large company and compute a transfer price per trainee. The (B) case shows actual results, and requires students to compute a flexible budget and the relevant variances. |
| |
2
|
Yes
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| Management Control Systems |
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BEG
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Add
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| Job Enrichment Division (B)
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| The (A) case requires students to use some budget drivers to build a budget for the training division of a large company and compute a transfer price per trainee. The (B) case shows actual results, and requires students to compute a flexible budget and the relevant variances. |
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1
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Yes
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| Management Control Systems |
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BEG
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Add
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| Jupiter Insurance Company
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| Requires students to use their knowledge of accounts such as prepaid insurance and unearned revenue and the underlying concepts to analyze a situation that involves the matching concept in an insurance company, using the liability account "claims incurred but not received," (or the IBNR, as it is called in the insurance industry). |
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3
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Yes
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INT
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Add
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| Kelmscott Rare Breeds Foundation
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| A long and complex case that requires students to assess how a management control system fits with a variety of other organizational activities, including strategy formulation, culture, authority, client management, motivation, and conflict management. The setting is an unusual one -- a nonprofit farm attempting to preserve vanishing breeds of farm animals. |
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33
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Yes
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ADV
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Add
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| Kyle Evans (A)
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| A conflict management case in which the issues are being discussed by E-mail and the matter is becoming increasingly inflamed.
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8
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Yes
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BEG
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Add
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| Kyle Evans (B)
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| A follow-on to the (A) case in which students are asked to reflect on how the situation could have been handled better, and what should be done now.
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1
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No
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BEG
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Add
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| Lakeside Hospital
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| 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. |
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5
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Yes
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INT
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Add
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4
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Yes
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BEG
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Add
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| Laverne General Hospital: The Orthopedic Center
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| Contains some minimal information from the other Laverne case, but is stand-alone. Asks students to determine what other organizational processes have been at work to achieve the success in the OR and how, if at all, those processes will need to be modified when the hospital "exports" the system to its soon-to-be-opened orthopedic center. |
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| Young, David W. |
| Heineke, Janelle |
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26
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Yes
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INT
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Add
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| Lincoln Dietary Department
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| A relatively simple ABC case set in a hospital dietary department. It serves to emphasize the potential power of ABC in a healthcare setting.
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2
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No
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BEG
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Add
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| Lomita Hospital (A)
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| 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. |
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8
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Yes
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| Management Control Systems |
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INT
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Add
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| Lomita Hospital (B)
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| A relatively simple variance analysis case for the pathology lab. Allows students to see how information in the A case could be improved upon. |
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4
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No
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BEG
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Add
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| Los Reyes Hospital (A)
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| 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. |
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2
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Yes
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| Management Control Systems |
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BEG
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Add
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| Los Reyes Hospital (B)
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| 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. |
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4
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Yes
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| Management Control Systems |
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BEG
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Add
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| Lowalos General Hospital
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| The chief of orthopedics is being pressured to the length of stay for his patients, but he sees other, more financially viable, alternatives |
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2
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No
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BEG
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Add
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| Management Accounting for Managers
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| 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.
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180
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No
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| Management Accounting |
| Management Control Systems |
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BEG
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Add
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|
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| Young, David W. |
| Anthony, Robert N. |
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308
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No
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| Healthcare Management |
| Nonprofit |
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| Management Control Systems |
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INT
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Add
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| Management Development, Inc.
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| A relatively simple financial accounting case containing 10 transactions. Would make a good first exam in an introductory course. |
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2
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Yes
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BEG
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Add
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| Mangpu Central Hospital (A)
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| These cases are similar to the Browning Lumber or Butler Lumber cases, but set in a Chinese hospital using somewhat modified data from a real Chinese hospital. Students must prepare financial statements (A case), a cash flow worksheet (B case), and then explain why a profitable hospital is running out of cash. |
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4
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Yes
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| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
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BEG
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Add
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| Mangpu Central Hospital (B)
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| These cases are similar to the Browning Lumber or Butler Lumber cases, but set in a Chinese hospital using somewhat modified data from a real Chinese hospital. Students must prepare financial statements (A case), a cash flow worksheet (B case), and then explain why a profitable hospital is running out of cash. |
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4
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Yes
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| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
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BEG
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Add
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| Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
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| 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. |
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| Young, David W. |
| O'Brien, Patricia |
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11
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Yes
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BEG
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Add
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| Massachusetts General Physicians Organization
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| The MGPO is attempting to institute a new compensation that deals with a mixed payment model in which some of a physician’s revenue comes from fee for service and some from capitation. Also at work are several non-financial measures of performance that complicate the compensation model. Each of several group practices is a profit center, and must decide if it wishes to decentralize this responsibility down to individual physicians within the group. |
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19
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Yes
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| Management Control Systems |
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INT
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Add
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| Medieval Image
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| A recently-minted MBA is confused because LIFO is not following the basic rule of thumb. Students need to figure out that a LIFO liquidation is taking place. |
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2
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Yes
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BEG
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Add
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| Menotomy Community Hospital (A)
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| These cases are similar to the Browning Lumber or Butler Lumber cases, but set in a Chinese hospital using somewhat modified data from a real Chinese hospital. Students must prepare financial statements (A case), a cash flow worksheet (B case), and then explain why a profitable hospital is running out of cash. Same as Mangpu Central Hospital, but set in the U.S. |
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4
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Yes
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| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
BEG
|
Add
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| Menotomy Community Hospital (B)
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| These cases are similar to the Browning Lumber or Butler Lumber cases, but set in a Chinese hospital using somewhat modified data from a real Chinese hospital. Students must prepare financial statements (A case), a cash flow worksheet (B case), and then explain why a profitable hospital is running out of cash. Same as Mangpu Central Hospital, but set in the U.S. |
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4
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Yes
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| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
BEG
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Add
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| Menotomy Diaper Services
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| A company is financing fixed asset acquisition and long-term debt reduction with cash and short-term debt. Students must figure this out and propose solutions (like Butler Lumber and similar cases). Similar to the other Menotomy cases but in a for profit context. |
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6
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Yes
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| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
BEG
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Add
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| Menotomy Home Health Services
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| A home health agency is financing fixed asset acquisition and long-term debt reduction with cash and short-term debt. Students must figure this out and propose a solution (a health care version of Menotomy Diaper Services, Butler Lumber and similar cases). |
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6
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Yes
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| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
BEG
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Add
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| Mercancía, S.A.
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| A keep or discontinue decision with a fairly complicated set of data. Much like Import Distributors, but a little simpler. |
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4
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Yes
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| Developing Country |
| For Profit |
| |
BEG
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Add
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| Merced College
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| A debate about how to account for and spend earnings on a college’s endowment. At issue are some new accounting regulations that make the issue more complicated than it needs to be. |
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4
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Yes
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| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
INT
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Add
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| Milan Sanitation Department
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| 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. |
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3
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Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
BEG
|
Add
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| Moray Junior High School
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| 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. |
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6
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Yes
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
BEG
|
Add
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| Mossey Bog Laboratories
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| An extremely simple full cost accounting case that gives students practice in preparing a stepdown. Often used as a demonstrate case in conjunction with a background note.
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1
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No
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
|
|
| Young, David W. |
| Leddy, Sheila |
|
10
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No
| |
| General Management |
| Marketing |
| Organizational Behavior |
|
INT
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Add
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| Narcolarm, Inc. (A)
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| 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. |
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2
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Yes
| |
| Financial Accounting |
| Management Accounting |
|
BEG
|
Add
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| 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. |
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2
|
Yes
| |
| Financial Accounting |
| Management Accounting |
|
BEG
|
Add
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| 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. |
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2
|
Yes
| |
| 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. |
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2
|
Yes
| |
| Financial Accounting |
| Management Accounting |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
| Narcolarm, Inc. (E)
|
| 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. |
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2
|
Yes
| |
| Financial Accounting |
| Management Accounting |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
| Neighborhood Servings
|
| 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. |
| |
5
|
Yes
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| New England Trust
|
| A "ratio detective" case involving 10 nonprofit organizations of varying sizes, characteristics, and means of support. |
| |
4
|
Yes
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
| Financial Accounting |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
| New Wave Hair Salon
|
| 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. |
| |
6
|
Yes
| |
| 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. |
| |
17
|
Yes
| |
| 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. |
| |
41
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No
| | |
INT
|
Add
|
| Note on Absorption Costing
|
| A description of the Stage 2 process for attaching costs to products. Discuses the various types of costs that exist in manufacturing settings, how to compute cost of goods manufactured and cost of goods sold with job order and process systems, how to determine overhead rates, including predetermined overhead rate, the preparation of a flexible overhead budgets and computation of overhead variances. Concludes with the managerial uses of overhead variances. |
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27
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No
| | |
INT
|
Add
|
| Note on Accounting Concepts and Depreciation
|
| Explains the nine fundamental accounting concepts (entity, dual aspect, money measurement, going concern, cost, realization, matching, conservatism, and materiality). Then discusses the rationale for depreciation in light of these concepts. |
| |
7
|
No
| | |
BEG
|
Add
|
| Note on Activity-Based Costing
|
| 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. Has been updated to contain a healthcare example. |
| |
12
|
No
|
| For Profit |
| Healthcare Management |
| |
BEG
|
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. |
| |
13
|
No
| |
| Management Control Systems |
|
INT
|
Add
|
|
|
| Anthony, Robert N. |
| Young, David W. |
|
8
|
No
| |
| General Management |
| Management Control Systems |
| Organizational Behavior |
|
BEG
|
Add
|
| Note on Capital Budgeting
|
| 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. |
| |
16
|
No
| |
| Finance/Financial Management |
| Management Control Systems |
|
INT
|
|