Kohber is a Swiss-company that makes medical equipment. It recently purchased a company, which manufactures packaging for high-value drugs. Since it will run the packaging company as a separate division, it would seem that Kohber is departmentalized by: customer O function size geography product

Kohber is a Swiss-company that makes medical equipment. It recently purchased a company, which manufactures packaging for high-value drugs. Since it will run the packaging company as a separate division, it would seem that Kohber is departmentalized by: customer O function size geography product

Principles of Accounting Volume 2

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Chapter12: Balanced Scorecard And Other Performance Measures

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