Cost allocation for capital budgeting decisions

Accounting Review

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 837-867

  Baldenius, Tim ^a   Dutta, Sunil ^b   Reichelstein, Stefan ^c  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34548287973     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2007.82.4.837     Document Type: Article

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