Effective requirements management plays an important role when it comes to the support of product development teams in the automotive industry. A precise positioning of new cars in the market is based on features and characteristics described as requirements as well as on costs and profits. [Question/problem] However, introducing or changing requirements does not only impact the product and its...

The study empirically evaluated the sensitivity of financial performance to overhead cost deposit money banks in Nigeria. It adopted ex post facto research design as secondary data were used. spanned a 12 year period (i.e. 2009 2020). Specifically, it attempted ascertain extent and nature relation between predictors (audit fees, director’s remunerations salaries wages) return on equity. Diagnos...

Background and Objectives: Efficient hospital management requires appropriate cost and price strategies. Informed decision on costs and prices of healthcare services needs estimation of costs of unit services using microeconomic techniques. There is lack of knowledge and skills for such costing methods in the healthcare sector of developing countries such as Iran. This study aims at detail des...

Overhead cost ratios are easy to compare across charities relative to other metrics. Many third-party rating agencies rely on overhead cost ratios when evaluating charities, at least in part. Many donors report relying heavily on overhead cost metrics when choosing among charities. Donors exhibit strong distaste for charities that report high overhead costs, even when there is no relationship w...

Prologue: Canada’s provincial health insurance scheme is a source of endless fascination to policymakers advocating health system reform. Whether one is an advocate or a or a detractor of Canada’s plan us a model for the United States, an important issue that engages the antagonists is how much it costs to operate compared with America’s pluralistic and mostly private health insurance approach....

Agent based micro-mobility protocols such as Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 deploy special IPv6 nodes called Mobility Agents that act as an anchor point between the Mobile Node and the Home Agent providing localized mobility support. The location and the number of MAs deployed within the network can affect the performance of the protocol. This paper deals with the problem of Mobility Agent (MA) locat...

OBJECTIVE The main objective is to describe and analyse hospital costs of the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) procedure. STUDY SAMPLE AND METHODOLOGY: Between January and December 2007, 14 ECMO patients were consecutively included in the study. Costs at the patient level were registered prospectively, while overhead costs were registered retrospectively. Patient costs were obtained f...