Activity-based costing and process benchmarking: An application to general insurance

Benchmarking

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 137-147

  Delpachitra, Sarath ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Activity based costs; Benchmarking; Insurance; Organizational processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849111057     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770810864857     Document Type: Article

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