Process analisys for higher education institutions: from the cost world to the throughput world

Abstract

This paper investigates a University's pricing process, comparing two different accounting approaches: traditional cost accounting and Theory of Constraints. Relying on concepts from the Theory of Constraints, this paper applies the principles of the Thinking Process and Throughput Accounting to review the current approach to this process. As a result, the paper evaluates the dynamics behind such processes and, based on throughput accounting, presents a new approach in tackling this.

Throughput accounting; Costs accounting; Theory of constraints; Business process engineering