Many models have been developed to assist contractors and clients in their cash flow forecasting. The majority of these have been based on standard cash flow S-curves, developed using the traditional manual approach, mathematical and statistical models. Many of these models failed to consider and analyse the factors responsible for the considerable variations in the modelled cash flow profiles....

1.0 INTRODUCTION In the past few decades, U.S. businesses have made large investments in information technology (IT), without decisive evidence about the value of such investments [1]. A natural question that arises in this context is whether managers have wasted organizational resources through large investments in IT. In his well-known free cash flow hypothesis, Michael Jensen argues that man...

Australia is a nation of home-loan borrowers. Hence, the movement of mortgage rates is closely watched in the country. Borrowers expect mortgage rates to synchronise with the cash rate, particularly when the cash rate decreases. More recently, however, the media has reported a weakening of this link. This has been accompanied by complaints from the public and politicians that banks no longer au...

In this paper, we provide new and complementing international evidence on the relation between cash holdings, corporate governance, and firm value. Our sample consists of a crosssection of 1,875 firms from 46 countries in 2007. We construct eight different measures of firm-level corporate governance based on 64 individual governance attributes provided by Governance Metrics International (GMI)....

BACKGROUND Financial stress may have adverse health effects. The main aim of this study was to investigate whether having a cash margin and living alone or cohabiting is associated with incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality. METHODS Representative population-based prospective cohort study of 60-year-old women (n = 2065) and men (n = 1939) in Stockholm County, Sweden. N...

In light of the recent regulatory changes and the increase in cash reserves after the financial crisis of 2007-08, we examine the determinants of cash levels and the effects of excess cash on bank’s business policies, for both listed and unlisted banks. As for the determinants, we find that larger, more profitable, more capitalized, and more diversified banks hold less cash. As for bank’s polic...

Purpose The ability to predict cash demand is crucial for the operation of construction companies. Reliable cash flow prediction during the execution phase can help managers to avoid cash shortages and to control project cash flow effectively. Method This paper presents a new inference model, CF-ELSIMT, for cash flow forecasting. The developed CF-ELSIMT utilizes weighted Least Squares Support V...

Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) can be considered among one of the most important service facilities in the banking industry. The investment in ATMs and the impact on the banking industry is growing steadily in every part of the world. The banks take into consideration many factors like safety, convenience, visibility, and cost in order to determine the optimum locations of ATMs. Today, ATMs a...