In the search for greater efficiency and cost-containment, many health systems have introduced the practice of medical care providers operating under a fixed budget, often referred to as the capitation or fundholding contract. Although the capitation contract seems equitable at first glance, the sequential decision-making practice of providers-shaped by their rate of present-preference and thei...

Is the crop economically feasible (profitable)? The most comprehensive way to determine if an alternative crop is economically feasible is to complete an enterprise budget. The enterprise budget is a projection of the manager’s estimates, and is a tool to estimate net profit by estimating revenues and subtracting operating and ownership costs associated with a particular crop. To create an ente...

As for the East Asian countries, the total amount of government debt in Korea has risen sharply over the following several years in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. The purpose of this paper is to assess whether the current levels of government debt are sustainable for a severely attacked country, namely, Korea. Under the intertemporal budget constraint model, the study tests for fiscal ...

In this paper, a new model of phytoplankton growth in the chemostat is proposed. First, we give a description of the chemostat and we recall the main models: the simple Monod model, experimentally validated for bacteria growth and the Droop model, which is validated for phytoplankton growth and takes into account the possible nutrient storage. Though our model is quite similar to the Droop one,...

This paper discusses the shoestring evaluation approach, which was developed to assist evaluators in conducting evaluations that are as methodologically sound as possible when operating with budget and time constraints and with limitations on the types of data to which they have access. The approach is used in two main scenarios. In the first scenario, the evaluator is not called in until the p...

Links: [1] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/departments-services/budgeting/20152016-operating-budget-forecast-guideline [2] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Forecast%20Carryforward%20Summary%201617.xlsx [3] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Chairs%20Endowed%20Policy%20final%20feb%2022_0.pdf [4] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Carryforward%20Policy%20Guideline....

Links: [1] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/departments-services/budgeting/20152016-operating-budget-forecast-guideline [2] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Forecast%20Carryforward%20Summary%201617.xlsx [3] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Chairs%20Endowed%20Policy%20final%20feb%2022_0.pdf [4] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Carryforward%20Policy%20Guideline....

Links [1] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/departments-services/budgeting/20152016-operating-budget-forecast-guideline [2] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Forecast%20Carryforward%20Summary%201617.xlsx [3] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Chairs%20Endowed%20Policy%20final%20feb%2022_0.pdf [4] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Carryforward%20Policy%20Guideline.p...

Links [1] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/departments-services/budgeting/20152016-operating-budget-forecast-guideline [2] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Forecast%20Carryforward%20Summary%201617.xlsx [3] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Chairs%20Endowed%20Policy%20final%20feb%2022_0.pdf [4] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Carryforward%20Policy%20Guideline.p...

Links [1] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/departments-services/budgeting/20152016-operating-budget-forecast-guideline [2] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Forecast%20Carryforward%20Summary%201617.xlsx [3] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Chairs%20Endowed%20Policy%20final%20feb%2022_0.pdf [4] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/system/files/Carryforward%20Policy%20Guideline.p...