BACKGROUND Since 2006, the genetic testing company 23andMe has collected biological samples, self-reported information, and consent documents for biobanking and research from more than 1,000,000 individuals (90% participating in research), through a direct-to-consumer (DTC) online genetic-testing service providing a genetic ancestry report and a genetic health report. However, on November 22, 2...

Bankruptcy prediction is a major issue in classification of companies. Since bankruptcy is extremely costly, investors, owners, managers, creditors, and government agencies are interested in evaluating the financial status of companies. This study tried to predict bankruptcy among companies registered in Tehran Stock Exchange (Iran) by designing imperialist competitive algorithm and genetic alg...

Financial Statement of a company is a reflection of the operational and financial position of a company. The comparative analysis of two companies similar in nature, size, work, location and objectives etc., facilitates an understanding of the operational and financial soundness of the companies. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is aiming for rapid industrialization in its economy. Sahara Petrochemi...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Data mining Financial fraud detection Feature selection t-statistic Neural networks SVM GP Recently, high profile cases of financial statement fraud have been dominating the news. This paper uses data mining techniques such as Multilayer to identify companies that resort to financial statement fraud. Each of these techniques is tested on a dataset involving 202 C...

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shareholders of joint stock companies have several rights. the most typical categorization of shareholders' right is financial and non-financial right. every one's intention of investing in commercial companies is to make profit; hence, the most important right of shareholders is to enjoy the dividend of the company. this right is a financial one. furthermore, after dissolution of the...

This paper develops an optimization model that captures the annual planning of producttargeting campaigns occurring in financial institutions. The formulation described in this paper extends current product-targeting optimization models found in the literature on two main aspects, namely the possibility of promoting bundled products and the use of multi-channel structures. The complexity of the...

Traditional methods and approaches to the evaluation of company performance are fundamental deficiencies in the fact that provide only a retrospective view of the company's competitive position that existed at some point in the past. This analysis are both static and outdated, but in addition also incomplete. Traditional financial indicators do not tell anything, why the overall results are as ...

Company strategy expresses a basic idea of how to reach company objectives. A whole range of models of strategic management are used in practice. The concept of strategic management should fulfill some basic requirements to make it applicable for both the typical, but also more specific company environment. The financial strategy plays an important role in corporate strategy. The paper develops...

Background. Sport financial sponsorship can offer sport marketers the opportunities to address new audiences and enhance brand equity and companies’ performance. Objectives. The purpose of the current study was to develop a model for the role of sport financial sponsorship on brand equity of Yazd ceramic and tile companies. Methods. The current study was conducted with a survey method. Standa...