On the need and opportunities for improving Costing and cost Management in Healthcare Organizations

Managerial Finance

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 46-59

  Capettini, Robert ^a   Chow, Chee W ^a   Odmark, Vern ^a   McNamee, Alan H ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LYON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity based costing; Cost allocation; Hospitals; Kaizen; Management information; Profitability; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844357043     PISSN: 03074358     EISSN: 17587743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074359810765327     Document Type: Article

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