Case Name :      Asante Teaching Hospital: Activity-Based Costing

Authors :           Melissa Jean, Courtney Young

Source :              Ivey Publishing

Case ID :           9B16B012 / W16558

Discipline :        Accounting

Case Length :    06 pages

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

In August 2015, an intern at Asante Teaching Hospital, a prestigious not-for-profit hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, wanted to organize the cost data she had gathered from staff interviews into clear recommendations for the hospital’s chief executive officer. Asante Teaching Hospital’s maternity ward competitors had begun offering bundled pricing for natural births, and the intern wondered if Asante Teaching Hospital should do the same. In order to calculate the costs of the service, she planned to employ both activity-based and time-driven activity-based costing techniques. With this information, she could present the results of her analysis and recommendations for a pricing strategy.