This paper describes conditions under which both conventional costing and linear activity-based costing can yield poor approximations to actual expenditures. We use a simulation approach based on data from a field experiment in a hospital to estimate how the introduction of a new anesthetic...

This paper describes conditions under which both conventional costing and linear activity-based costing can yield poor approximations to actual expenditures. We use a simulation approach based on data from a field experiment in a hospital to estimate how the introduction of a new anesthetic...