Accounting in small business decisions / / by James L. Gibson and W. Warren Haynes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459601303321
• Autore: Gibson James L (James Lawrence), <1935->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lexington, Kentucky : , : University of Kentucky Press, , 1963; ©1963
• ISBN: 0-8131-8338-3; 0-8131-6324-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (148 p.)
• Collana: Small Business Management Research Reports
• Disciplina: 657.044
• Soggetti: Accounting; Small business; Decision making; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Contents; INTRODUCTION; 1. ACCOUNTING AND ECONOMICS: THEIR RELATION TO DECISION MAKING; Accounting and Business Decisions; Recognition of the need for a decision; Assembly and organization of relevant information; Managerial Economics in Business Decisions; The principles of managerial economics; A variety of cost concepts; Economists' criticism of traditional accounting; 2. GARDEN AND LANDSCAPE NURSERIES; Some Generalizations; Why cost accounting is not used; A note on nursery cost accounting literature; A Prescriptive Model for Nurseries; Certainty model: plant mix decisionsCertainty model: pricing decisions; Certainty model: other decisions; Cost considerations; Significance of the present value approach; Removal of simplifying assumptions; Conclusions: Economics and Accounting in Nursery Decisions; 3. RETAIL STORES; Some Generalizations; The Concept of Homeostasis and Retail Decision Making; Historical Data as Estimates of Future Data; Why historical data are used in some retail stores; Accounting systems as sources of historical data; The Merchandise Budget; The ; merchandise budget defined; The budget and the small retailer; Effect on merchandising decisionsAd Hoc Analysis; The Case Studies in Terms of Rational Decision Making; Elements of a prescriptive model; The case studies evaluated; Implications for Practice; 4. MANUFACTURING FIRMS; Some Generalizations; Product Diversification Decisions of Two Firms; Investment Decisions of Two Firms; Pricing Decisions of Four Firms; Full costs rigidly used; Full costs used with some flexibility; Full costs with complete adjustment to competition; Full costs not used; Evaluation of the pricing practices; Implications for Practice; 5. PRINTING FIRMS; Some Generalizations; Printing Industry Accounting MethodsThe production flow; All-inclusive hour cost method; Factory-hour cost method; Hour costs and decision making; Case Studies of the Role of Accounting in Decision Making; A firm with specialized decision-making processes; Two firms with less specialized decision-making processes; Three firms with one-man decision makers; Evaluation of the pricing practices in the cases; Routinized Decision Making versus Ad Hoc Analysis; Industry Comparisons; Production characteristics; Market characteristics; Implications for Practice; 6. CASE STUDIES OF INCREMENTAL ANALYSIS; Decision One: Simple Incremental AnalysisThe analysis: incremental costs; An alternative analysis: full costs; The decision horizon; Implications for accounting; A note on marginal income analysis; Decision Two: Complex Incremental Analysis; Immediate action; Long-range action; The bases for the choice; Evaluation; The decision and its implications for accounting; Selected Case Studies; Conclusion; 7. AN OVERVIEW OF INVESTMENT AND PRICING DECISIONS; Investment Decisions of Small Firms; Quantitative methods for ranking; Method of analysis employed by some small firms; The rationale for payback and rate of income
• Sommario/riassunto: <P> <I>Accounting in Small Business Decisions</I> presents the first large-scale empirical examination of how small firms use accounting data to make operating decisions.</P>