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- Politics of Participatory Decision Making in Campus Governance
- Governance of higher education involves the authority to make decisions about fundamental policies and practices in several critical areas concerning colleges and universities. Other issues of concern include degree requirements, standards expected in student performance, the quality of research and public service activities, the freedom available to individual faculty members...
- White papers 2005-05-03
- The Management Accounting Simulation: An Approach to Bringing Decision Making Into an Introductory Managerial Accounting Course
- The Accounting Education Change Commission has recommended accounting courses include a focus on non-technical skills, such as written and oral communication, teamwork, problem solving, and critical thinking skills. Employers of entry-level managerial accountants have indicated these skills are necessary, but that students are also lacking in technical cost or managerial...
- White papers 2003-09-24
- Visualization And Decision-Making Using Structural Information
- From the executive summary: ‘Visualization and computational intelligence methods such as data mining and knowledge discovery are important tools for decision support in imaging science. The paper discusses the blending of these areas to improve decision making for a variety of applications. The paper offers a conceptual model for integrating...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Throw Out Fixed and Variable Cost Thinking—Bring In Activity-Based Costing for Distribution Decisions
- This article suggests a new way of thinking about costs in distribution management. It defines that distributors need cost information, not to track the cost of manufacturing operations, but to make strategic management decision for example decisions on pricing, unbundling value-added services, customer profitability, vendor profitability, and automating processes. This...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Activity Based Costing: A Tool To Aid Decision Making
- Activity Based Costing ABC method computes the overall product cost taking into account the cost involved in the intermediate activities leading to delivery of the final product. In this way, ABC improves cost measurement. Designing an ABC system entails identification of activity and activity pools to develop an activity database....
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Activity-Based Costing: A Tool To Aid Decision Making
- From the executive summary: ‘Activity Based Costing ABC system assigns overhead costs to products or services using a two-stage process that focuses on activity. Identifying activity cost pools forms the first stage of ABC. In the second stage, cost drivers for each activity cost pool are identified and proportionally assigned...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Managerial Decision Making
- Decision-making is a critical process in organizations. Managers in an organization are involved in the decision-making process wherein they analyze alternative solutions to a given problem in the organization. Managerial decision-making entails responding to opportunities and threats prevailing in the external environment of the organization. Creating a learning organization and...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Activity Based Costing: A Tool To Aid Decision Making
- Activity Based Costing ABC is a costing methodology that views the entire organization as a collection of distinct activities. These activities form the basis of computing the costs. ABC refines costing systems by focusing on individual activities as the fundamental cost object. It assigns costs to cost objects based on...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- New Technologies For Activity-Based Costing And Customer / Product-Line Profitability Analysis
- From the executive summary: ‘Activity-Based Costing ABC has made “do-able” Customer Profitability Analysis CPA, Product-Line Profitability Analysis PPA, and order costing for wholesale distributors. These decision-making tools are possible because of new software and hardware technologies. The new technologies have been categorized as Business Intelligence Solutions BIS and Decision Support...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Management Decision Making
- Decision-making involves choosing the most appropriate solution to a problem from amongst a large number of solutions. It entails evaluating pros and cons of each solution, in context of prevailing circumstances, and accordingly making the decision. Managers in an organization have to perennially make decisions. Decision Support Systems DSS are...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- The Use Of Cost Information In Management Decision Making
- Decision-making is all about utilizing strategic information to evaluate alternative courses of action for a given problem and choosing the best course of action from amongst them. The knowledge of different aspects of business is crucial in making the right decisions. The paper examines the role of cost information in...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
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- Hospital nurse practice environments and outcomes for surgical oncology patients
- NURSE PRACTICE ENVIRONMENTS AND OUTCOMES FOR SURGICAL ONCOLOGY PATIENTS Cancer is the leading cause of death in the nation for adults below the age of 85 years (American Cancer Society 2005). Lung, breast, and colorectal cancers accounted for over $16 billion in direct care costs, and significant decline...
- Articles 2008-08-01
- COST ALLOCATIONS FOR HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT
- CASE DESCRIPTION The primary subject matter of this case concerns structuring cost accounting information. A secondary issue is the focus on how the information might be used and to this end there are no numbers in the case. Depending upon the requirements chosen by the instructor, this case...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- Effective 360° Management Enhancement: The Role of Style in Developing A Leadership Team
- ABSTRACT To succeed in the highly competitive world of today, business firms must be focused on the enhancement of 360° management and a commitment to organizational leadership team development. This article focuses on the case of InfoTech, Inc., an Atlanta, Georgia based firm, primarily involved in the establishment...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- Management accounting—performance evaluation: Ian Herbert analyses the pros and cons of employee empowerment and discusses the role of the management accounting function.
- The idea of allowing workers to take more responsibility for operational decisions seems to represent the very essence of the modern, dynamic organisation. Tom Peters, the author of bestselling business book In Search of Excellence, put it this way: "If you don't know where your people are...
- Articles 2008-06-01
- MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING - PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
- Ian Herbert analyses the pros and cons of employee empowerment and discusses the role of the management accounting function. The idea of allowing workers to take more responsibility for operational decisions seems to represent the very essence of the modern, dynamic organisation. Tom Peters, the author...
- Articles 2008-06-01
- A Contingent Relationship Between Risk and Return: Toward A Behavioral Model of Decision Making
- ABSTRACT Different researchers have conceptualized the risk-return relationship as being positive, negative, or curvilinear. This paper proposes a framework where different theoretical approaches can be mapped onto a two-dimensional risk-return space in order to reconcile them. Rather than a single and fixed reference point, we propose that there...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- Trust, Norms, and Cooperation: Development and Test of a Simplified Model
- Abstract Trust at the interpersonal level in organizational settings has been researched extensively, yet little has been learned about the process through which trust affects cooperation and of the role of the social context in this process. Further, the models most often cited are complex and difficult to...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- Corrado Giannantoni: A Modern-Day Newton
- Corrado Giannantoni: A Modern-Day Newton Muhammad Yunus gave a graduation talk at BYU in 1998 emphasizing the power of mindsets. He suggested that we cannot solve any problem with existing methods when the problem lies in the methods and even more so in the mindsets that generate the...
- Articles 2008-04-01
- Staking Claim: Public Relations Leaders Needed to Shape CSR Policy
- As organizational leadership increasingly appreciates the benefits that accrue from Corporate Social Responsibility, the need arises for a systematic framework for Grafting CSR policies. This paper proposes that public relations take the lead in that effort. Scholars and practitioners should explore the CSR concept thoroughly and analytically, identifying points...
- Articles 2008-04-01
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