CVP under uncertainty and the manager's utility function revisited

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-171

  Chan, Derek K ^a   Wong, Kit Pong ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Conflict of interest; Cost volume profit analysis; Multiple sources of uncertainty; Risk aversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242558600     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008352305790     Document Type: Article

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