Activity-based costing in the U.K.'s largest companies: A comparison of 1994 and 1999 survey results

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 349-362

  Innes, John ^a   Mitchell, Falconer ^b   Sinclair, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity based costing; perceptions of success; survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000030649     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mare.2000.0135     Document Type: Article

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