Abstract:
The objective of this study are survey and analyze cost and return from education management for private kindergartens in Chonburi province in the academic year 2004. Data, collected from 22 private kindergartens by interviewing with questionnaires, is categorized in to 3 different-sized groups, based on number of students, and analyzed by frequencies, percentage, and meanThe findings show that, private kindergarten education management, large kindergartens possess the highest per-head-student revenues, costs, and returns. The per-head-student revenues, costs, and returns respectively decrease for medium kindergartens and is lowest for small kindergartens. The highest portion of capital expenditure is land since the sample is located in urban area so land price is very high. Break-even analysis for large, medium, and small kindergartens results in 80, 156, 356 students, correspondingly. Return-on-asset and return-on-equity analysis indicate that large kindergartens rank the most efficient management, follow by medium kindergarten. Small kindergartens have the least performance in asset management and no return-on-equity because of net losses from operations. Furthermore, the Chi-Square technique is applied for testing hypotheses. The results indicate that all 3 different-sized groups of private kindergartens get different per-head-student Fix cost and Return-on-asset at significant level 0.05.