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Finding the Cost of Control [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
A large and growing literature has demonstrated that explicit incentives, such as enforceable contracts, can lead agents to withhold effort. We investigate when this behavioral result arises. In an extensive laboratory experiment, we find that imposing control through an enforceable contract is only detrimental to principals in a special case when: (1)
Judd Kessler, Stephen G. Leider
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Controlling the Cost of Quality Control

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 1986
In the present era of expanding technology coexisting with economic constraint, appropriate quality control criteria to monitor laboratory performance must take into consideration not only analytic precision and medical utility, but also cost effectiveness.
James W. Winkelman   +2 more
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Controlling the Cost of Medicaid

New England Journal of Medicine, 2017
Opportunities for bipartisan compromise to improve Medicaid’s value may lie in greater flexibility for states, realignment of incentives related to long-term services, improved integration of physical and behavioral health care, and efforts to lower drug costs.
K. John McConnell, Michael E. Chernew
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Cost control and EVA

2007
This chapter describes the principles of earned value analysis (EVA) and the very similar Foster Wheeler SMAC man-hour control system. The advantages of EVA over the traditional weighting system are discussed together with an example showing how to recalculate the earned value and final forecast after poor progress due to rework.
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Cost of Snail Control

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1979
In the last 10 years, there has been general agreement that niclosamide (bayluscide) is the preferred molluscicide for control of the snails transmitting Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma haematobium. This chemical has been widely tested in pilot projects and is in use in expanded control projects in Brazil, Puerto Rico, Egypt, Iran, and other ...
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Controlling your costs [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Corporate Accounting & Finance, 2001
AbstractPlayer, S. and D. E. Keys, Editors. 1995. Activity‐Based Management: Arthur Andersen's Lessons from the ABM Battlefield (New York: MasterMedia Limited). McNair, C.J. and the CAM‐I Cost Management Integration Team. 2000. Value Quest: Driving Profit and Performance by Integrating Strategic Management Processes (Bedford, TX: CAM‐I).
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The Concept of Cost Control

1976
Cost control aims at ensuring that resources are used to the best advantage. In these days of ever-increasing costs the majority of promoters of building work are insisting on projects being designed and executed to give maximum value for money. Hence, quantity surveyors are employed to an increasing extent during the design stage to advise architects ...
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The challenge of cost control.

Radiology, 1981
Specific steps are suggested to cope with the variable costs of diagnostic examinations and film use. More importantly, fixed costs which constitute most of the expenses in radiology, should also be controlled. Since nonphysician salaries are a large part of fixed costs, factors which affect productivity must be investigated and understood ...
S A DeLuca, J T Rhea
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