Price and Product-Mix Decisions Under Different Cost Systems

​Philipp Plank analyses the question, what drives the quality of cost-systems and is the quality of cost-systems directly and at best positively related to the firms’ performance. In other words, is it worth investing in complex cost allocation systems or

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Philipp Plank

Price and ProductMix Decisions Under Different Cost Systems

Quantitatives Controlling Edited by C. Homburg, Köln, Germany

The series serves as a panel for outstanding research in the field of accounting. The underlying concept of accounting goes beyond the scope of traditional corporate accounting including, for instance, aspects of behavior control. The series focuses on quantitative analyses of current topics in management and financial accounting and considers both analytical and empirical research designs. Edited by Carsten Homburg Universität zu Köln

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Philipp Plank

Price and ProductMix Decisions Under Different Cost Systems With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Carsten Homburg

Philipp Plank Köln, Germany Dissertation Universität zu Köln, 2016

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Foreword This dissertation addresses the product-mix and pricing decision problem, based upon full cost information. The focus lies on the performance of costbased decisions compared to a first-best-model, optimally solving the underlying problem and serving as a benchmark. Essentially, by using a simulation approach, it is examined if cost-systems that are more precise lead to better decisions. It can be shown that those systems usually outperform simple cost systems. This effect is even more pronounced in growing markets. In addition,