Overhead cost allocation changes in a transfer pricing tax compliant multinational enterprise

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 199-216

  Rossing, Christian Plesner ^a   Rohde, Carsten ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Case study; Cost accounting; International transfer pricing; Multinational enterprise; Overhead cost allocation; Tax compliance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955429219     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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