Matter in the big hospital. Students must analyze the actual and projected budgets provided for the previous year to determine the financial difficulties in the hospital. Then they can decide the costing and budgeting exercises. Finally, students can use the data they have generated in the case to prepare a budget for next year. On the cover of the case of questions: income and expense variance analysis, activity-based costing (cost accounting), as well as simple capital budgeting problems that can be answered using the net present value, internal rate of return, and methods of the discount rate. HKS Case Number 1823.0 "Hide
by Linda Bilmes 11 pages. Publication Date: 04 Oct 2006. Prod. #: HKS318-PDF-ENG