COST ALLOCATION AND OPPORTUNITY COSTS

被引:35
作者
MILLER, BL [1 ]
BUCKMAN, AG [1 ]
机构
[1] CALIF STATE UNIV HAYWARD,SCH BUSINESS & ECON,HAYWARD,CA 94542
关键词
BUDGET CONTROL - MANAGEMENT SCIENCE - PROBABILITY - Queueing Theory;
D O I
10.1287/mnsc.33.5.626
中图分类号
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
One explanation for the widespread use of allocated fixed costs is that they can serve as a proxy for difficult-to-calculate opportunity costs. This explanation is pursued by modeling a service department as an M/M/s/s queueing system. Two main results are that the expected value of opportunity costs equals both the incremental productivity of capacity and the optimal transfer price. When the cost of capacity is of the form C(S) equals as** alpha and alpha is close to one, we show that allocated fixed costs are a good proxy for average opportunity costs. However, if there are great economies of scale ( alpha is close to zero), then a method which charges users only for the variable costs of the service department is recommended.
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页码:626 / 639
页数:14
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