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Signal Extraction And Forecasting Of The UK Tourism Income Time Series. A Singular Spectrum Analysis Approach
Nov 2009
The authors present and apply the Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA), a relatively new, non-parametric and data-driven method used for signal extraction (trends, seasonal and business cycle...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Economic Forecasts With Bayesian Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model: Choosing Optimal Prior In Economic Downturn
Sep 2009
Bayesian inference requires an analyst to set priors. Setting the right prior is crucial for precise forecasts. This paper analyzes how optimal prior changes when an economy is hit by a recession....
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
The Exact Insensitivity Of Market Budget Shares And The «Balancing Effect»
Jun 2007
The authors reformulate Grandmont's and its successors' notion of behavioral heterogeneity such as to get the exact insensitivity of the aggregate budget share function with respect to changes in...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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White Papers
Empirical Evidencies For The Budget Deficits Co-Integration In The Old European Union Members: Are There Any Interlinkages In Fiscal Policies?
Jan 2009
In the last years, the fiscal harmonization among the European Union members has become a pillar of economic integration and of fiscal and financial stability in the European area. The...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Forecasting In Vector Autoregressions With Many Predictors
Mar 2010
This paper addresses the issue of improving the forecasting performance of Vector AutoRegressions (VARs) when the set of available predictors is inconveniently large to handle with methods and...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
The Methodological Steps In Management Accounting And Cost Calculation - A Comparative Analysis Between The Traditional Methods Used In Romania And The Activity-based Costing (abc) Method
Nov 2010
In this paper, the author discusses the methodological steps taken in the Romanian management accounting, according to the specifics of the ABC method. The author also makes a comparative analysis...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Decomposing Federal Funds Rate Forecast Uncertainty Using Real-time Data
Feb 2009
This paper uses real-time data for the U.S. to estimate out-of-sample forecast uncertainty about the Federal Funds Rate. By combining a Taylor rule with an unobserved components model of economic...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Mathematic Modelling Of The Transaction In The Bugetary Activity
Jan 2009
The submitted paper is intended to revolutionize the handling methods of credit sheets and the means of collecting budgetary incomes, on one hand, and to allow operators to verify in real time the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
The Properties Of Market-Based And Survey Forecasts For Different Data Releases
Nov 2007
The authors compare the accuracy of the survey forecasts and forecasts implied by economic binary options on the U.S. nonfarm payroll change. These options are available for a number of ranges of...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Time Use And Time Budgets - Improvements, Future Challenges And Recommendations
May 2009
Time-use statistics offer a unique tool for exploring a wide range of policy concerns including social change; division of labour; allocation of time for household work; the estimation of the...
Provided by Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe (FFB)
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White Papers
Nonlinear Combination Of Financial Forecast With Genetic Algorithm
Nov 2007
Complexity in the financial markets requires intelligent forecasting models for return volatility. In this paper, historical simulation, GARCH, GARCH with skewed student-t distribution and...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Budgetary Dynamics In The Local Authorities In Israel
Jul 2008
This paper examines the short-run effects and dynamics of exogenous shocks to the regular budgets of the local authorities in Israel with emphasis on the reduction in government participation and...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
The Sustainability Of Budget Deficits In An Inflationary Economy
Nov 2007
This paper examines fiscal sustainability in an inflationary environment, particularly the interrelation between government debt and inflation. A model that explicitly incorporates the political...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
From Cash To Accrual Budgeting And Accounting In The Public Sector: The Dutch Experience
Nov 2007
Traditionally, governments used to deploy input-based budgeting systems and cash-based accounting systems. However, these systems do not provide the information that is necessary for a government...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
A Dynamic Auction For Multiobject Procurement Under A Hard Budget Constraint
Mar 2010
The authors present a new dynamic auction for procurement problems where payments are bounded by a hard budget constraint and money does not enter the procurer's objective function. A...
Provided by University of Mannheim
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White Papers
Habit Formation, Strategic Extremism, And Debt Policy
Jan 2010
The authors suggest a probabilistic voting model where voters' preferences for alternative public goods display habit formation. Current policies determine habit levels and in turn the future...
Provided by University of Zurich
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White Papers
Evaluating Density Forecasts: A Comment
May 2011
This is a comment on Mitchell and Wallis (2011) which in turn is a critical reaction to Gneiting et al. (2007). The comment discusses the notion of forecast calibration, the advantage of using...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Multi-Period Credit Default Prediction With Time-Varying Covariates
Apr 2011
In credit default prediction models, the need to deal with time-varying covariates often arises. For instance, in the context of corporate default prediction a typical approach is to estimate a...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
All-Pay Auctions With Budget Constraints: The Two Bidder Case
Apr 2011
Consider an all-pay auction with interdependent, affiliated valuations and private budget constraints. The authors characterize a symmetric equilibrium for the case of two players. In contrast...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Dispersion In Analysts' Earnings Forecasts And Credit Rating
Jul 2007
This paper shows that the puzzling negative cross-sectional relation between dispersion in analysts' earnings forecasts and future stock returns results from financial distress as proxied by...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
Anti-Takeover Provisions And Corporate Disclosure
Aug 2007
The authors examine the effects of Anti-Takeover Provisions (ATPs) on corporate disclosure by testing the following two hypotheses: The market pressure hypothesis, which predicts that firms with...
Provided by Texas Christian University
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White Papers
Are Forecast Updates Progressive?
Apr 2010
Macro-economic forecasts typically involve both a model component, which is replicable, as well as intuition, which is non-replicable. Intuition is expert knowledge possessed by a forecaster. If...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
Evaluating Macroeconomic Forecasts: A Review Of Some Recent Developments
Mar 2010
Macroeconomic forecasts are frequently produced, published, discussed and used. The formal evaluation of such forecasts has a long research history. Recently, a new angle to the evaluation of...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
Forecasting Realized Volatility With Linear And Nonlinear Models
Oct 2009
In this paper the authors consider a nonlinear model based on neural networks as well as linear models to forecast the daily volatility of the S&P 500 and FTSE 100 indexes. As a proxy for daily...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
VaR Forecasts And Dynamic Conditional Correlations For Spot And Futures Returns On Stocks And Bonds
Oct 2009
The paper investigates the interdependence and conditional correlations between futures contracts and their underlying assets, both for stock and bond markets, and the impact of the...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
Does The FOMC Have Expertise, And Can It Forecast?
Aug 2009
The primary purpose of the paper is to answer the following two questions regarding the performance of the influential Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the Federal Reserve System, in...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
How Accurate Are Government Forecasts Of Economic Fundamentals? The Case Of Taiwan
Aug 2009
A government's ability to forecast key economic fundamentals accurately can affect business confidence, consumer sentiment, and foreign direct investment, among others. A government forecast based...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
Bayesian Estimation Of Demand Functions Under Block Rate Pricing
Aug 2009
This paper proposes a Bayesian estimation method of demand functions under block rate pricing, focusing on increasing one, where the authors first considered the separability condition explicitly...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
Pre-Issue Investor Optimism And Post-Issue Underperformance
Sep 2007
Prior studies have documented long-run underperformance of security offerings, with equity issuers underperforming debt issuers. The authors use an investor optimism index based on analyst...
Provided by California State University
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White Papers
Why Do Analysts Issue Long-Term Earnings Growth Forecasts? An Empirical Analysis
Sep 2007
The authors examine analysts' motives to issue Long-Term earning Growth (LTG) forecasts. They find that analysts are more likely to issue LTG forecasts when their incentive to please managers is...
Provided by University of Alabama
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White Papers
Family Types And The Persistence Of Regional Disparities In Europe
Oct 2008
This paper examines the association between one of the most basic institutional forms, the family, and a series of demographic, educational, social, and economic indicators across regions in...
Provided by IMDEA
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White Papers
A Framework For The Integration Of Environmental Legitimacy, Accountability And Proactivity (ELAP)
Jul 2010
This paper shows linkages between three conceptually distinct, but interrelated dimensions of corporate environmental behaviour, namely environmental legitimacy, environmental accountability and...
Provided by University of Canterbury
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White Papers
Local And Global Merchant Networks: Accounting Across Space And Time
Jul 2010
The authors' paper has three main objectives. First, they build upon the earlier research of the Guide du Commerce (1773) and French trade to examine business networks emanating from...
Provided by University of Alberta
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White Papers
Institutionalisation And Deinstitutionalisation Of Budget
Jul 2010
This paper jointly investigates the process whereby budgeting became institutionalised between 1930 and 1960 and the attempts of the Cam-i to deinstitutionalise it since 1990. The paper focuses on...
Provided by University of Sydney
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White Papers
Managing Accountability Expectations In An Uncertain Context: A New Institutional Perspective
Jul 2010
The realities of many public sector organisations today is characterised by uncertainty, complexity, interdependence, diversity, and instability. Under such conditions, managing accountability...
Provided by Auckland University of Technology
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White Papers
A Local Government Study
Jul 2010
This paper explores the role of accountants in sustainability reporting from a local government perspective. A mail survey document was employed to collect data from 190 respondents, in...
Provided by University of Tasmania
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Webcasts
State Budget Crises Continue
Apr 2011
While the federal budget and debt battles rage, similar scenarios are taking place in cash-strapped states across the nation. The Great Recession has left many states cash-strapped, and the...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
What?s Next For The Budget Deficit Debate?
Dec 2010
Calls to take action on skyrocketing budget deficits and the national debt are growing as alarm increases among policymakers about the long-term consequences. Longtime federal budget policy expert...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
Elections In Afghanistan; Budget Deficit
Aug 2009
Brookings experts voice concern over the still-not-decided Afghanistan elections, where a battered citizenry needs a signal that democracy can succeed; and longtime budget watcher warns of the...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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White Papers
Dynamic Revenue Management With Negotiated Prices
Jun 2007
The authors have considered the classical revenue management setting of a seller who owns a finite inventory of a single product that can be sold during a finite number of time periods. In each...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
What's Your Budget?
Jan 2010
Regardless of which budget style you choose, you make very important choices as you plan your profit and loss. This is where you plan your expenses. You are estimating expenditures across the...
Provided by Palo Alto Software
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White Papers
Successful Budgeting Involves People
Jan 2010
Successful budgeting goes beyond numbers. It depends on people management. Managing the budget numbers can be simple, but managing a budget takes people, not spreadsheets. While budget numbers are...
Provided by Palo Alto Software
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White Papers
How Businesses With A Flat organizational Structure Create And Utilize Their Budgets
Jul 2007
Companies with a flat corporate structure typically use their budget as a guide to the overall operations of the Company. The budget within a flat corporate structure serves the purpose of...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
How To Prepare A Successful Budget
Aug 2007
Budgeting is a short-term financial statement that shows a company's future plans. A successful budget is created when all managers are involved with the budgeting process by carefully planning...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Business Budget Process
Jan 2008
A business must first comprehend what a budget is before it can create a budget. A budget allows business owners the ability to monitor their finances and ensure the company possesses the funds...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Create A Profitable Home Business Budget In Three Steps
Aug 2007
If we never decide to setup a home business budget, we may end up in a very difficult financial situation. Being able to budget your available funds is a great way to investigate your financial...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
A Small Business Owner's Guide To Budget Basics
Oct 2009
Is your flow of money pretty tight? Have you made the decision to test the waters of becoming an entrepreneur while wondering how to operate your own small business on a budget? To become...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Starting A Small Business Budget
Sep 2009
A small business is a big step for any individual. There are a lot of expenses, and it can be very stressful at times. Your budget is a very large part of your success. The budget helps you...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Budgeting Is Very Significant In Business Operations
Nov 2009
Budgeting is the method of planning as to how resources will be acquired and used over a certain period of time. Budgeting also applies to handling personal finances similar to that of most...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Budgeting Made Easy For Your Home Based Business!
May 2007
Budgeting is imperative if you're going to own and operate a home based business. Much like budgeting your personal finances, budgeting for your home based business can make or break you. If you...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Your Business: How To Implement A Financial Budget
Nov 2008
A financial budget identifies the various costs and value for the initiation of any business project. A financial budget relates to economic resources and financial resources to develop or...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
How To Set And Stick To Business Budgets
Oct 2009
Budgets are essential in businesses just as they are in everyday life. Producing and compiling a budget will allow you to see just where your business is and of course where it could be. So, it's...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Optimizing Your Facility Investment Strategy: Good Planning Will Extend Building Life Cycles
Jan 2009
Applying financial management techniques to facility maintenance, repair and replacement plans will optimize your facility investment strategy and help plan a successful sustainment and ultimate...
Provided by FMLink Group
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White Papers
How To Minimize Cash Flow Problems
Jul 2008
Consistent growth is the best way to smooth out bumps in cash flow. When opportunities for growth present themselves, plan carefully. Make a conscious decision about how much you have to spend to...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Rapid And Sustained Cost Management: Managing Front-Office Costs
Feb 2009
The prospect of an extended period of economic uncertainty presents organizations with a difficult challenge: reduce front-office costs while remaining responsive to changing customer needs, new...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
The Trade Balancing Act
May 2009
The rules of the game in global trade are changing. As corporates' supply chains are threatened by a lack of liquidity, the time is right for global, collaborative efforts to revitalise trade. The...
Provided by Citigroup
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White Papers
Unlocking Capital From Within
Mar 2009
In an environment where operating efficiency and financial flexibility are paramount to survival, necessity is inspiring a fresh perspective and providing the impetus to bring about radical change...
Provided by Citigroup
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White Papers
Sweat The Small Stuff: Now Is The Time To Focus On The Details To Better Manage Risk
Jan 2009
In today's economy, companies cannot afford to overlook even the smallest details when it comes to protecting their assets. But did you know that minor oversights, such as an incorrect shipping...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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White Papers
Building Some Protection Against A Down Economy
Jul 2009
Today, business owners find themselves pressed to keep up with uncertain economic conditions. But even in an economic downturn there are opportunities to be had - if you are prepared to take...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Learning To Cut To Win
Jun 2009
If only everyone had cut out all the excessive crap back in 2006 when it might have mattered. Since most small businesses didn't, many have streamlined and are quickly learning how to tighten...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
How To Preserve Cash For Your Business
Jun 2009
If you're running a small business today and aren't thinking about how to tighten your belt, you are surely in rarefied company. But if you're like the rest of us, you're scrambling to cover...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Great Test Of Economic Intervention
Jun 2009
One of the constant refrains of the new boomsayers, rally-rompers, and green shootists is that we're not likely to experience a redux of the Great Depression. This time things will be different,...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Consumer Savings During Times Of Economic Downturn
May 2009
The upshot is that there is a "New normal" looming. Rather than the cheery 3.4% real GDP growth that we have seen globally in recent years, we will return to growth, but at a considerably lower...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Best Practices In Finance: A Roadmap For Funding
May 2009
Not everyone who runs a business is a financial wizard. And why should they be? People go into business for a variety of reasons - to transform something they love into something that pays; to...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Borrow Better: How To Get A Loan And Keep It
May 2009
Loans are big business for small business owners. Even applying for a simple credit facility can mean risking a lot. But a well-prepared borrower can negotiate from a position of strength, saving...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Cut Costs Without Cutting Quality
Feb 2009
When restaurant operators are faced with challenging times in the business cycle, the need for an operating budget becomes more critical. An operating budget helps set achievable goals for both...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Where Is The Business Going? Succession Planning Points For Consideration
Jul 2009
This paper explains some points for consideration in developing your own business succession plan. Having an exit strategy is crucial, and often overlooked. Although it is tough to know what your...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
5 Ways To Protect Your Finances
Oct 2008
If you're feeling less secure about your financial situation these days, you're not alone. Job losses, stock market gyrations, tighter credit and Congressional debates about the economy have made...
Provided by LendingTree
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White Papers
Economy Now: Key Strategies For Your Financial Plan
Jul 2009
The current fiscal situation is on everyone's minds, and it is generally agreed that while the economy is not at its most robust, there is no reason why a well-run business cannot thrive with the...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Business Loans And Budgeting
Jan 2009
Most small business owners are aware that budgeting is one of the most important aspects of business management. A budget is an itemized allotment of funds for a given period. It helps you to...
Provided by contentdig.com
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White Papers
Myths & Common Misperceptions About Budgeting
Jan 2009
Budgeting allows you to tackle your goals from a financial perspective through awareness. In determining your budget you are deciding how much money goes where so that you can chalk up the rest to...
Provided by contentdig.com
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White Papers
The Advantages Of Using Budgeting Software
Jan 2009
Some people just contend that they cannot simply do budgeting alone. They insist that they need some help in order to come up with a reliable and workable budget. That's why some financial experts...
Provided by contentdig.com
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White Papers
The Heart Of Working Capital Management Is About Managing Relationships
Mar 2009
The goal of working capital management is to ensure that a company is able to continue its operations and at the same time to generate sufficient cash to satisfy cash requirements of maturing...
Provided by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
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White Papers
Releasing Working Capital Within The Supply Chain
May 2009
The current economic downturn is having two major and contradictory impacts on the consumer packaged goods supply chain. First, there is a war for cash in full swing, as individual players in the...
Provided by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
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White Papers
Breathing Room - Ten Ideas For Squeezing More Working Capital From Your Supply Chain
Oct 2008
In the face of today's unprecedented credit crunch, companies must do everything they can to free up working capital. Even businesses that appear to be in pretty good shape may not be immune. What...
Provided by Deloitte & Touche LLP
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White Papers
Interview Question: How Do You Deal With Budget Problems, Like Overruns?
Jan 2009
The budget is the Holy of Holies of management. Any budget questions should be treated like land mines. If you're handling budgets, be prepared for a long session on everything you know. There are...
Provided by cvtips.com
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White Papers
Build A Successful Business Through The Art Of Budgeting
Jan 2009
Statistics show that only 43% of small businesses that have employees prepare a budget that projects revenues, expenses and profit. If you include sole proprietor type businesses then that number...
Provided by SelfGrowth.com
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White Papers
Ways To Increase Your Working Capital
Jan 2009
Every business needs some type of working capital. Working capital is defined as the money that is available to any business for their use or the current assets of a business minus the liabilities...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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White Papers
Funding Growth With: Working Capital
Oct 2008
To achieve its goal of enhancing the liquidity and cash visibility, Philips leverages Citi's cutting-edge platforms and technology. Citi's long-standing presence in Asia Pacific - and nationwide...
Provided by Citigroup
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White Papers
Intelligent Crisis Prevention: Optimizing Working Capital As A Lifeline For Liquidity
Mar 2009
Strategically improving working capital involves a multitude of challenges and risks in areas such as debtor management, creditor management, stock management or cash management. During the...
Provided by VertMarkets
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White Papers
Economic Forecasts With Bayesian Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model: Choosing Optimal Prior In Economic Downturn
Sep 2009
Bayesian inference requires an analyst to set priors. Setting the right prior is crucial for precise forecasts. This paper analyzes how optimal prior changes when an economy is hit by a recession....
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
The Exact Insensitivity Of Market Budget Shares And The «Balancing Effect»
Jun 2007
The authors reformulate Grandmont's and its successors' notion of behavioral heterogeneity such as to get the exact insensitivity of the aggregate budget share function with respect to changes in...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
-
White Papers
Empirical Evidencies For The Budget Deficits Co-Integration In The Old European Union Members: Are There Any Interlinkages In Fiscal Policies?
Jan 2009
In the last years, the fiscal harmonization among the European Union members has become a pillar of economic integration and of fiscal and financial stability in the European area. The...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Forecasting In Vector Autoregressions With Many Predictors
Mar 2010
This paper addresses the issue of improving the forecasting performance of Vector AutoRegressions (VARs) when the set of available predictors is inconveniently large to handle with methods and...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
The Methodological Steps In Management Accounting And Cost Calculation - A Comparative Analysis Between The Traditional Methods Used In Romania And The Activity-based Costing (abc) Method
Nov 2010
In this paper, the author discusses the methodological steps taken in the Romanian management accounting, according to the specifics of the ABC method. The author also makes a comparative analysis...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Decomposing Federal Funds Rate Forecast Uncertainty Using Real-time Data
Feb 2009
This paper uses real-time data for the U.S. to estimate out-of-sample forecast uncertainty about the Federal Funds Rate. By combining a Taylor rule with an unobserved components model of economic...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Mathematic Modelling Of The Transaction In The Bugetary Activity
Jan 2009
The submitted paper is intended to revolutionize the handling methods of credit sheets and the means of collecting budgetary incomes, on one hand, and to allow operators to verify in real time the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
The Properties Of Market-Based And Survey Forecasts For Different Data Releases
Nov 2007
The authors compare the accuracy of the survey forecasts and forecasts implied by economic binary options on the U.S. nonfarm payroll change. These options are available for a number of ranges of...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Time Use And Time Budgets - Improvements, Future Challenges And Recommendations
May 2009
Time-use statistics offer a unique tool for exploring a wide range of policy concerns including social change; division of labour; allocation of time for household work; the estimation of the...
Provided by Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe (FFB)
-
White Papers
Nonlinear Combination Of Financial Forecast With Genetic Algorithm
Nov 2007
Complexity in the financial markets requires intelligent forecasting models for return volatility. In this paper, historical simulation, GARCH, GARCH with skewed student-t distribution and...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Budgetary Dynamics In The Local Authorities In Israel
Jul 2008
This paper examines the short-run effects and dynamics of exogenous shocks to the regular budgets of the local authorities in Israel with emphasis on the reduction in government participation and...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
The Sustainability Of Budget Deficits In An Inflationary Economy
Nov 2007
This paper examines fiscal sustainability in an inflationary environment, particularly the interrelation between government debt and inflation. A model that explicitly incorporates the political...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
From Cash To Accrual Budgeting And Accounting In The Public Sector: The Dutch Experience
Nov 2007
Traditionally, governments used to deploy input-based budgeting systems and cash-based accounting systems. However, these systems do not provide the information that is necessary for a government...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
A Dynamic Auction For Multiobject Procurement Under A Hard Budget Constraint
Mar 2010
The authors present a new dynamic auction for procurement problems where payments are bounded by a hard budget constraint and money does not enter the procurer's objective function. A...
Provided by University of Mannheim
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White Papers
Habit Formation, Strategic Extremism, And Debt Policy
Jan 2010
The authors suggest a probabilistic voting model where voters' preferences for alternative public goods display habit formation. Current policies determine habit levels and in turn the future...
Provided by University of Zurich
-
White Papers
Evaluating Density Forecasts: A Comment
May 2011
This is a comment on Mitchell and Wallis (2011) which in turn is a critical reaction to Gneiting et al. (2007). The comment discusses the notion of forecast calibration, the advantage of using...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Multi-Period Credit Default Prediction With Time-Varying Covariates
Apr 2011
In credit default prediction models, the need to deal with time-varying covariates often arises. For instance, in the context of corporate default prediction a typical approach is to estimate a...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
All-Pay Auctions With Budget Constraints: The Two Bidder Case
Apr 2011
Consider an all-pay auction with interdependent, affiliated valuations and private budget constraints. The authors characterize a symmetric equilibrium for the case of two players. In contrast...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Dispersion In Analysts' Earnings Forecasts And Credit Rating
Jul 2007
This paper shows that the puzzling negative cross-sectional relation between dispersion in analysts' earnings forecasts and future stock returns results from financial distress as proxied by...
Provided by University of Maryland
-
White Papers
Anti-Takeover Provisions And Corporate Disclosure
Aug 2007
The authors examine the effects of Anti-Takeover Provisions (ATPs) on corporate disclosure by testing the following two hypotheses: The market pressure hypothesis, which predicts that firms with...
Provided by Texas Christian University
-
White Papers
Are Forecast Updates Progressive?
Apr 2010
Macro-economic forecasts typically involve both a model component, which is replicable, as well as intuition, which is non-replicable. Intuition is expert knowledge possessed by a forecaster. If...
Provided by University of Tokyo
-
White Papers
Evaluating Macroeconomic Forecasts: A Review Of Some Recent Developments
Mar 2010
Macroeconomic forecasts are frequently produced, published, discussed and used. The formal evaluation of such forecasts has a long research history. Recently, a new angle to the evaluation of...
Provided by University of Tokyo
-
White Papers
Forecasting Realized Volatility With Linear And Nonlinear Models
Oct 2009
In this paper the authors consider a nonlinear model based on neural networks as well as linear models to forecast the daily volatility of the S&P 500 and FTSE 100 indexes. As a proxy for daily...
Provided by University of Tokyo
-
White Papers
VaR Forecasts And Dynamic Conditional Correlations For Spot And Futures Returns On Stocks And Bonds
Oct 2009
The paper investigates the interdependence and conditional correlations between futures contracts and their underlying assets, both for stock and bond markets, and the impact of the...
Provided by University of Tokyo
-
White Papers
Does The FOMC Have Expertise, And Can It Forecast?
Aug 2009
The primary purpose of the paper is to answer the following two questions regarding the performance of the influential Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the Federal Reserve System, in...
Provided by University of Tokyo
-
White Papers
How Accurate Are Government Forecasts Of Economic Fundamentals? The Case Of Taiwan
Aug 2009
A government's ability to forecast key economic fundamentals accurately can affect business confidence, consumer sentiment, and foreign direct investment, among others. A government forecast based...
Provided by University of Tokyo
-
White Papers
Bayesian Estimation Of Demand Functions Under Block Rate Pricing
Aug 2009
This paper proposes a Bayesian estimation method of demand functions under block rate pricing, focusing on increasing one, where the authors first considered the separability condition explicitly...
Provided by University of Tokyo
-
White Papers
Pre-Issue Investor Optimism And Post-Issue Underperformance
Sep 2007
Prior studies have documented long-run underperformance of security offerings, with equity issuers underperforming debt issuers. The authors use an investor optimism index based on analyst...
Provided by California State University
-
White Papers
Why Do Analysts Issue Long-Term Earnings Growth Forecasts? An Empirical Analysis
Sep 2007
The authors examine analysts' motives to issue Long-Term earning Growth (LTG) forecasts. They find that analysts are more likely to issue LTG forecasts when their incentive to please managers is...
Provided by University of Alabama
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White Papers
Family Types And The Persistence Of Regional Disparities In Europe
Oct 2008
This paper examines the association between one of the most basic institutional forms, the family, and a series of demographic, educational, social, and economic indicators across regions in...
Provided by IMDEA
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A Framework For The Integration Of Environmental Legitimacy, Accountability And Proactivity (ELAP)
Jul 2010
This paper shows linkages between three conceptually distinct, but interrelated dimensions of corporate environmental behaviour, namely environmental legitimacy, environmental accountability and...
Provided by University of Canterbury
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Local And Global Merchant Networks: Accounting Across Space And Time
Jul 2010
The authors' paper has three main objectives. First, they build upon the earlier research of the Guide du Commerce (1773) and French trade to examine business networks emanating from...
Provided by University of Alberta
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Institutionalisation And Deinstitutionalisation Of Budget
Jul 2010
This paper jointly investigates the process whereby budgeting became institutionalised between 1930 and 1960 and the attempts of the Cam-i to deinstitutionalise it since 1990. The paper focuses on...
Provided by University of Sydney
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Managing Accountability Expectations In An Uncertain Context: A New Institutional Perspective
Jul 2010
The realities of many public sector organisations today is characterised by uncertainty, complexity, interdependence, diversity, and instability. Under such conditions, managing accountability...
Provided by Auckland University of Technology
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A Local Government Study
Jul 2010
This paper explores the role of accountants in sustainability reporting from a local government perspective. A mail survey document was employed to collect data from 190 respondents, in...
Provided by University of Tasmania
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State Budget Crises Continue
Apr 2011
While the federal budget and debt battles rage, similar scenarios are taking place in cash-strapped states across the nation. The Great Recession has left many states cash-strapped, and the...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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What?s Next For The Budget Deficit Debate?
Dec 2010
Calls to take action on skyrocketing budget deficits and the national debt are growing as alarm increases among policymakers about the long-term consequences. Longtime federal budget policy expert...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Elections In Afghanistan; Budget Deficit
Aug 2009
Brookings experts voice concern over the still-not-decided Afghanistan elections, where a battered citizenry needs a signal that democracy can succeed; and longtime budget watcher warns of the...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Dynamic Revenue Management With Negotiated Prices
Jun 2007
The authors have considered the classical revenue management setting of a seller who owns a finite inventory of a single product that can be sold during a finite number of time periods. In each...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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Customer Behavior Modeling In Revenue Management And Auctions: A Review And New Research Opportunities
May 2007
Customer behavior modeling has been gaining increasing attention in the operations management community. It is vital to correctly modeling customer behavior, as a poor understanding of customer...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
