Fifth set of results in!

It’s been a long time since we didn’t receive any results. It doesn’t mean we were idling: we had the exam in Management Accounting and Control just after the new year and we had to give back two papers on Human Resources Management late in January. The results we received today are for Management Accounting and Control (the course already appeared in this blog, about TCO). As usual, here is the graphical representation of the results distribution:

The shape looks somehow like a bell this time (except for its tail on the left). The A+ is back, congratulations! Unfortunately, some Fs appeared too :-( Anyway, congratulations to everyone!

Prof. Roodhooft’s publications on TCO

For the last session of transparency creation in management accounting and control, Prof. Roodhooft talked about his favourite topic: total cost of ownership (TCO) in purchasing management and strategic sourcing. Here are three papers he talked about during the class:

• The first Belgian paper in HBR: A Smarter Way to Buy by Zeger Degraeve and Filip Roodhooft, June 2001
• The Cockerill Sambre paper: Effectively Selecting Suppliers Using Total Cost of Ownership by Zeger Degraeve and Filip Roodhooft in the Journal of Supply Chain Management 35(1): 5–10 (12/1999)
• The use of mathematical programming models for strategic procurement (case at Usinor) in the Journal of the Operational Research Society 56: 51–59 (2005)

There are lots of other references in his webpage at Vlerick (suggestion for the webmaster: add links to the actual articles, it will make everyone’s life more easy).

Feel free to add your links in the comments below if you have anything else …