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Coverdrive Case Studies

Philip DunnDr Philip E Dunn of the Esk Valley Business School and provides the popular Coverdrive Ltd case study series. Included in the case studies are downloads of the articles and accompanying diagrams.

This series of articles is based around the typical scenarios an accountant might encounter in a business environment and is intended to emulate the practical, project-based approach adopted by most accountancy bodies.


  • Case study I: standard absorption costing and variance analysis
  • Case study II: planning for profit through budgetary management and control
  • Case study III: Decision making and the limiting factor
  • Case study IV: Value Added and the Value Added Scoreboard
  • Case study V: Employee Reporting
  • Case study VI: Financial Reporting, an International Comparison
  • Case study VII: Cash Flow Statements: ASB-IASB comparison
  • Case study VIII: Appraising and Proposed Investment
  • Case study IX: Activity Based Costing
  • Case study X: Interpretation of Financial Statements
  • Case study XI: Interpretation of financial statements: a cash flow perspective
  • Case study XII: Inventory Control
  • Case study XIII: Benchmarking and Balanced Scorecard Appraisal
  • Case study XIV: Performance Related Pay Linked to Value Added
  • Case Study XV: Planning Techniques using Critical Path Analysis
  • Case Study XVI: Flexible budgets & performance reporting
  • Case study XVII: Overhead Recovery
  • Case study XVIII: Cash Flow Forecast
  • Case study XIX: Factoring – an alternative to funding
  • Case study XX: Zero-base budgeting
  • Case study XXI: Economic Value Added
  • Case study XXII: Target Costing
  • Case Study XXIII: Companies Act meeting requirements
  • Case Study XXIV: Performance reporting to the board
  • Case Study XXV: Break-even analysis and profitability
  • Case Study XXVI: Investment appraisal
  • Case Study XXVII: Working capital control



  • Other articles of interest on accounting standards and management accounting

    Philip Dunn has been involved in the training of Accountancy students for over 37 years. He is a Training Consultant and Freelance Writer and is the author of over 730 articles, papers and case studies in journals in the UK, Irish Republic, US, Canada, South Africa, Russia, Latvia, Ukraine, China, India and Pakistan.

    He currently lectures at Scarborough Business School and is a Freelance Assessor for Kaplan Financial Distance Learning. He is also an Educational Consultant to the Institute of Certified Book-Keepers, writes for a number of leading magazines including Accounting Technician and Pass Magazine and edits two other online journals.


    AccountingWEB.co.uk 7-Sep-2004
    Categories: Business Features, Management Reporting Features
    Times read: 9008

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