IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-04018-6_15.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Prendergarth Shipping Co

In: Accounting Control and Financial Strategy

Author

Listed:
  • Andrew M. McCosh

    (Manchester Business School)

  • Michael J. Earl

    (Oxford Centre for Management Studies)

Abstract

This is a marvellous case to use as a grand finale on relevant costs. In the past it was used as a two-day case, with the complexity of the problem causing students not to get very far in their first evening of preparation. The questions on the attached assignment sheet, developed by Professor Charles J. Christenson, suggest to the student how the problem must be looked at in small pieces, and then the pieces put together. These questions make the case teachable in only one day. However, I recommend calling on a strong student to answer questions 1–4 to help ensure getting through the discussion in 80 minutes. Similarly, experience has shown that tolerance of lengthy discussions on relatively minor points (e.g. will the Warrior make 69 round trips in East Africa, or a smaller number? Will the large vessels indeed save 72 miles steaming distance?) will preclude getting to the more interesting issues of the case.

Suggested Citation

  • Andrew M. McCosh & Michael J. Earl, 1979. "Prendergarth Shipping Co," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Accounting Control and Financial Strategy, pages 85-88, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-04018-6_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04018-6_15
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-04018-6_15. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.