Data Governance is an essential part of an overall Corporate Governance strategy as an equal sub-discipline alongside IT Governance. The goal of Data Governance is to govern and manage data and information by organizing the proper usage of data and defining the responsibilities for data and respective data quality. This paper discusses a practical realization approach of a Data Governance strat...

It is well-known that news is essential in financial markets. The amount of news releases is continually growing due to the expansion of communication media in today’s computerised world, and the ability to correctly and efficiently interpret financial information has become much more important in trading. Financial news analytics allow the trader to significantly reduce the latency time to rea...

Extracting up-to-date information from financial documents can be important in making investment decisions. However, the unstructured nature and enormity of the volume of such data makes manual analysis tedious and time consuming. Information extraction technology can be applied to automatically extract the most relevant and precise financial information. This paper introduces a rule-based info...

This paper discusses the use of intelligent Internet agents as essential tools for automating financial analysis functions in the virtual world. Several important characteristic features of intelligent agents are discussed, including autonomy, communication ability, collaboration, and mobility. This paper focuses on developing a new intelligent agent called FRAANK – Financial Reporting and Audi...

A loss-less compression technique is proposed which uses a variable length Region formation technique to divide the input file into a number of variable length regions. Huffman codes are obtained for entire file after formation of regions. Symbols of each region are compressed one by one. Comparisons are made among proposed technique, Region Based Huffman compression technique and classical Huf...

This paper is in an attempt to examine the financial performance of privatelisted commercial banks in Bangladesh in terms of profitability. The study is based on cross-section data of annual financial statements of 15 listed commercial banks for the period 2008-2012. Five determinants have been chosen for this study. The Correlation matrix shows that profitability, asset quality, operating perf...

The sophistication of financial decisions varies with age: middle-aged adults borrow at lower interest rates and pay fewer fees compared to both younger and older adults. We document this pattern in ten financial markets. The measured effects can not be explained by observed risk characteristics. The sophistication of financial choices peaks at about age 53 in our cross-sectional data. Our resu...

recent bankruptcy of big companies all over the world and fluctuations in iran's stock market require that some methods be developed for the evaluation of companies' financial potential. different models are used for the prediction of bankruptcy and the evaluation of organizational financial situation. environmental changes and increasing competition among agencies led to companies&ap...

By using the data of Chinese manufacturing enterprises between 1999 and 2009, the specialization and diversification of China’s exports are calculated. The relationship between financial development and the specialization of export and diversification of exports were studied by using dynamic panel data. It is found that financial credit development could significantly improve specialization of ...

In August this year the Financial Times reported that Wolters Kluwer ( [http://www.wolters-kluwer.com/] ), the Dutch publisher, was considering a bid for Harcourt General ( [http://www.harcourt.com/] ), the US textbook producer [1]. Wolters Kluwer is the third largest commercial professional publisher in the world with a 1998 revenue of over US$2,380 million [2]. Harcourt is sixth largest with ...