Wavelet analysis, as a promising technique, has been used to approach numerous problems in science and engineering. Recent years have witnessed its novel application in economic and finance. This paper is to investigate whether features (or indicators) extracted using the wavelet analysis technique could improve financial forecasting by means of Financial Genetic Programming (FGP), a genetic pr...

Since the early 1990’s the general and financial management of the Victorian public sector has been significantly transformed. This research constructs and explains the content, nature and quality of non-financial disclosures, including those related to performance indicators via a disclosure indicator analysis (DIA) of actual reporting practices in recent Government Budget papers. It reports t...

Banks play an important role in the economic development of every nation. They have control over a large part of the supply of money in circulation. Since, the appearance of private commercial banks is the larger portion of the banking sector in Bangladesh, thus this study is intended to measure the performance of selected private sector banks (five), listed on both the Dhaka Stock Exchange and...

This paper examines the out-of-sample performance of various financial variables as predictors of U.S. recessions. Series such as interest rates and spreads, stock prices, and monetary aggregates are evaluated individually and in comparison with other financial and nonfinancial indicators. The analysis focuses on out-of-sample performance from one to eight quarters ahead. Results show that stoc...

In response to the concern regarding the evaluation of knowledge management initiatives, this study introduces the concept of ‘knowledge creating capabilities‘. This concept refers to the balance of the four knowledge creation modes proposed in the SECI Model by Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995). The relationship of this concept with corporate financial performance is explored using two financial indi...

This paper presents a text mining methodology to extract outlying knowledge from a collection of financial statements. The main idea is to extract relevant financial performance indicators and discover implicit textual description of the indicators. The extracted information was represented using a network language i.e. conceptual graph. Outlier mining was performed on the conceptual graph repr...

This study developed and applied benchmarks for five indicators included in the CAH Financial Indicators Report, an annual, hospital-specific report distributed to all critical access hospitals (CAHs). An online survey of Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officers was used to establish benchmarks. Indicator values for 2004, 2005, and 2006 were calculated for 421 CAHs and hospital per...

abstract: background: depending on the importance of a good performance appraisal system to achieve organizational strategies, balanced scorecard technique provides a comprehensive foundation for interpreting and translating organization’s vision and strategy in a set of performance measures by regarding an overall view of organization in four perspectives included customer, internal processes,...