TY  - BOOK
AU  - 
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Service Business Costing: Cost Accounting Approach for the Service Industry 
SN  - 9783834944443
AV  - Libro electrónico 
U1  - 330 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Wiesbaden
PB  - Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Imprint: Springer Gabler
KW  - Economics
KW  - Economics/Management Science
KW  - Economics/Management Science, general
N1  - Introduction.-Theoretical background and literature review -- Methodology -- Action research: value chain analysis of a consulting firm -- Design and development of a costing approach -- Conclusion and recommendation
N2  - Service firms have high overhead costs which are difficult to assign to individual services. To bring transparency to their value chain, they need costing approaches that help them find their own improvements. Markus B. Baum explores current theory and practice of value chain approaches and cost accounting to develop a costing approach with a suitable instrument for the allocation of fixed and overhead costs for a service firm. He describes the service business costing (SBC) approach. This hybrid-costing model has a hierarchical structure in terms of consolidation and allocates cost and revenues on the lowest hierarchical level possible to ensure that all costs and income are assigned to activities from which they originated
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-4444-3
ER  -