Economies of scale, scope, and skill are known to be major drivers or inhibitors for outsourcing business processes but they may play different roles for outsourcing primary or secondary processes. In this paper, based on two empirical surveys with Fortune 1,000 non-banks and Fortune 500 banks in Germany, a comparative analysis reveals different appreciation of (the impact of) economies of scal...

In previous works on authentic samples of saffron of known history (harvest and processing year, storage conditions, and length of time) some biomarkers were proposed using both FT-IR and NMR metabolomics regarding the shelf life of the product. This work addresses the difficulties to trace back the “age” of commercial saffron samples of unknown history, sets a limit value above which these pro...

This paper discusses the method of setting up the financial early warning model of listed companies based on the researches before. With the data from the public financial information report of listed companies we choose the appropriate financial indicators. Then Based on the data of 29 ST listing companies and 128 similar normal ones, we give our factor analysis model and discriminant analysis...

This study empirically investigates the relationship between the timeliness of the financial reporting and the corporate governance proxies for companies listed on the Tunisian stock exchange during 2009.It investigates the role of the corporate governance mechanisms on the timeliness of corporate financial reporting besides; it investigates the relationship between the company size, leverage, ...

This chapter studies structural and reduced-form credit risk models under incomplete information using techniques from stochastic filtering. We start with a brief introduction to stochastic filtering. Next we cover the pricing of corporate securities (debt and equity) in structural models under partial information. Furthermore we study the construction of a dynamic reduced-form credit risk mode...

• Commonwealth Rent Assistance has a modest but positive effect on the impact of housing costs on financial disadvantage for private renters, particularly in a number of outer suburbs in capital cities, as well as in scattered rural statistical local areas (SLAs). This bulletin is based on research by Justine McNamara, Robert Tanton and Ben Phillips of the AHURI RMITNATSEM Research Centre. The ...

Stock market linked savings accounts have become more and more popular. The returns of these accounts are random so the returns, even the initial capital, are not guaranteed. They are very much different from the familiar fixed-term-fixed-rate savings accounts. The aim of this paper is to perform the stochastic and numerical analysis on the stock market linked savings accounts in order to estab...

Healthcare provider organizations are faced with a rising number of financial pressures. Both administrators and physicians need help analyzing large numbers of clinical and financial data when making decisions. To assist them, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center and Hitachi America, Ltd. (HAL), Inc., have partnered to build an enterprise data warehouse and perform a series of case stud...

In liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) based expression proteomics, samples from different groups are analyzed comparatively in order to detect differences that can possibly be caused by the disease under study (potential biomarker detection). To this end, advanced computational techniques are needed. Peak alignment and detection are two key steps in the analysis process of LC-MS da...

In-group bias, a product of Social Identity Theory, may impair auditor independence by influencing auditor judgments in an analytical review task. Auditors rely on client representations to support their opinion of the financial statements; however, clients are sometimes former auditors of the external audit firm. This prior relationship could lead the auditor to exhibit unwarranted trust of cl...