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- 1987
- Chapter
How Cost Accounting Systematically Distorts Product Costs
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper
- 1987
- Introduction
The Role of Field Studies in Accounting Research and the Development of Accounting
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Accounting
- June 1987 (Revised May 1990)
- Case
John Deere Component Works (B)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Having installed an activity-based system, the division is now exploring the insight provided by that system. In particular, it is studying the economics of lot-size process planning and product mix management. View Details
- June 1987 (Revised August 1988)
- Case
American Bank
By: Robert S. Kaplan
American Bank is developing a new system to compute product costs. The deregulated, more competitive environment for commercial banks has created both problems and opportunities for banking operations. In order to price existing products and assess the desirability of... View Details
- May 1987 (Revised November 1998)
- Case
John Deere Component Works (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The division has recognized the inadequacies of its existing, traditional cost system for estimating product costs. Describes the innovative activity-based system that was developed to more accurately trace overhead costs to individual products. Provides students with... View Details
- April 1987 (Revised October 1989)
- Case
Winchell Lighting, Inc. (A)
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Designed to teach students how to trace marketing costs to products. View Details
- April 1987 (Revised June 1987)
- Supplement
Winchell Lighting, Inc. (B)
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- 1987
- Book
Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting
By: Robert S. Kaplan and H. Thomas Johnson
- November 1986 (Revised May 1999)
- Teaching Note
Union Pacific (A), (B), and Introduction, Teaching Note
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Rail Industry
- February 1986 (Revised June 1987)
- Case
Ingersoll Milling Machine Co.
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Manufacturing Industry
- January 1986 (Revised April 1988)
- Case
Union Pacific, Introduction
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Rail Industry
- 1985
- Chapter
Accounting Lag: The Obsolescence of Cost Accounting Systems
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Cost Accounting