Identificador: TDX:583
Autores: Sànchez Rebull, Maria Victòria
Resumen:
The primary target of this thesis has consisted of Developing a proposal of implantation of the ABC to the hotel sector. Also it has been persecuted to review the systems of costs applied to the hotel sector to surpass the disadvantages that present/display, of improving the understanding of the ABC oriented to the companies of services and to expose a revision of the last tendencies in the investigation on the ABC. The structure of this thesis is the following one. After a brief introduction, the evolution and the doctrinales sources of the ABC have been studied in the first chapter. The second chapter is dedicated to the analysis of the viability of the ABC system in companies of services. Different publications have been reviewed on the matter on as diverse cases as the railroad referred ones, hospitals, banks, financial companies, communications, insurance agencies, etc. In the third chapter, the tourist sector and the particularitities of the hotel companies have been studied, reviewing publications of studies of more outstanding costs related to the same one and of ABC studies in hotels.In the chapters fourth and fifth the practical application of the ABC system in real a hotel company has been developed by means of the case method. First the carried out phases of the implantation in relation to the identification, codification and analysis of the made activities in the different processes from the company are exposed. The maps and the dictionary of the activities have been elaborated. The phase of their rationalization has been made. Later all the elements of cost consumed in the company have been analyzed, determining after this the cost of the activities and the services and products. Also the results obtained in the organization have been calculated. The reached conclusions are related to the ABC system in general and its application to the hotel sector. Among them we emphasizes the fact of to have verified that the ABC is applicable to companies of services and, in special to the hotel case studied and to have stated at least that is crucial to consider the human factor (workers, direction, equipment of the project) in the process of application of the ABC.