Full cost accounting as a tool for the financial assessment of Pay-As-You-Throw schemes: A case study for the Panorama municipality, Greece

Waste Management

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2801-2808

  Karagiannidis, Avraam ^a   Xirogiannopoulou, Anna ^a   Tchobanoglous, George ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST ACCOUNTING; COSTS;

ACCOUNTING METHODS; CASE STUDIES; CHARGING; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; IMPLEMENTING; PRODUCTION DATUM; UNIT PRICES; WASTE CHARGES;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATABASE;

ARTICLE; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; GREECE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOUSEHOLD; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PAY AS YOU THROW PROGRAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ACCOUNTING; ALGORITHMS; GREECE; MODELS, ECONOMIC; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 54349095177     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2008.03.031     Document Type: Article

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