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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298473403321

Autore

Schuster Peter

Titolo

Transfer Prices and Management Accounting / / by Peter Schuster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-14750-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (78 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Accounting, , 2196-7873

Disciplina

330

657

658.1

Soggetti

Accounting

Bookkeeping 

Organization

Planning

Accounting/Auditing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cost and management accounting -- Functions and types of transfer prices -- Market-based transfer prices -- Cost-based transfer prices -- Negotiated transfer prices -- Transfer prices and behavioural control -- Summary.

Sommario/riassunto

Transfer prices are of dominant importance in company practice and a decentralised organisation, e.g. a profit centre-organisation, is most-widely used. This textbook takes an innovative controversial approach by looking at functions of transfer prices and how different types of transfer prices can fulfil them. Suggestions common in other textbooks will be picked up and it will be shown why they do not contribute to solve the problems companies face. With support of numerous examples and exercises a conceptual understanding of this most relevant management topic will be developed. Transfer prices are an issue in most advanced courses on Management Accounting and/or Management Control and their analysis receives increasing attention. They are covered in one chapter in almost all management accounting textbooks. This often leads to serious oversimplifications and



reductions of contents. This books aims at filling this gap and to provide a concise and controversial view on the topic.