Rationale for adopting activity-based costing in hospitals:three longitudinal case studies

Abstract In the 1990's, a large number of Finnish hospitals began implementing new cost accounting systems, which were aimed at pricing the hospital outputs at full cost. Often the method of choice was activity-based costing, which was in the process of being transferred from the manufactur...

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Main Author: Järvinen, J. (Janne)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Oulu 2005
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Online Access:http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9514279484
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