Developments: Activity-based costing in universities-five years on

Public Money and Management

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 61-68

  Cropper, Paul ^a   Cook, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0034418504     PISSN: 09540962     EISSN: 14679302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9302.00213     Document Type: Article

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