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Condominium Townhouse Investment

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  • Gulraze Wakil
  • Karin Petruska

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This accounting case involves the evaluation of various alternatives based on a real‐life personal property investment. The Condominium Townhouse Investment (CTI) case uses introductory management accounting concepts and analyses to introduce students to the case method of learning. The main concepts reinforced are relevant costs and revenues, including differentiating between opportunity and sunk costs. Students are not only asked to define and identify these items, but to consider choices centered on the decision alternatives in their role as accountants in public practice. This case is especially valuable because it offers students the chance to become engaged in an analysis and decision‐making situation that they can relate to both personally and professionally because, one day, they themselves are likely to become involved in a home ownership decision. The case focuses on real estate as a personal business investment, and requires both qualitative and quantitative analysis, with more emphasis on the qualitative aspect. In addition, the teaching notes include methods and strategies for students to use in an introductory managerial accounting class or level‐1 MBA class. RÉsumÉ Le cas de comptabilité proposé fait intervenir l'évaluation de diverses possibilités dans une situation pragmatique de placement immobilier personnel. Le cas Condominium Townhouse Investment (CTI) (qui porte sur un placement dans une maison en rangée en copropriété) fait appel à des notions et des analyses élémentaires de comptabilité de gestion et a pour but d'initier les étudiants à la méthode de l'étude de cas. Les principales notions que ce cas met en lumière sont celles des coûts pertinents et des revenus, notamment la distinction entre les coûts de renonciation et les coûts irrécupérables (non pertinents). Les étudiants sont appelés non seulement à cerner et à définir ces éléments, mais à analyser les choix décisionnels qui s'offrent à eux dans leur rôle d'experts‐comptables. L'exclusivité de ce cas réside dans le fait qu'il offre aux étudiants la chance de procéder à une analyse et de prendre une décision dans le rôle d'un protagoniste auquel ils peuvent s'identifier, tant sur le plan personnel que sur le plan professionnel, étant donné la probabilité qu'ils aient un jour à faire le choix de devenir ou non propriétaires d'une habitation. Le cas, qui est centré sur le placement immobilier à titre d'investissement productif personnel, exige une analyse aussi bien qualitative que quantitative, l'accent portant sur les aspects qualitatifs. De plus, les notes pédagogiques contiennent des méthodes et des stratégies à l'usage des étudiants d'un cours d'introduction à la comptabilité de gestion ou d'un cours de premier niveau du programme MBA.

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  • Gulraze Wakil & Karin Petruska, 2012. "Condominium Townhouse Investment," Accounting Perspectives, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 11(4), pages 323-332, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:accper:v:11:y:2012:i:4:p:323-332
    DOI: 10.1111/1911-3838.12004
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