Lignocellulosic ethanol is expected to be commercialised during the next decade as renewable energy for transport. Competiveness with first generation bioethanol and with gasoline is commonly considered in techno-economic analyses for commercial stage. Several existing reviews conclude about the high spread of current and projected production costs of lignocellulosic ethanol due to the signific...

India's national nutrition and health programmes are largely designed to provide evidence-based nutrition-specific interventions, but intervention coverage is low due to a combination of implementation challenges, capacity and financing gaps. Global cost estimates for nutrition are available but national and subnational costs are not. We estimated national and subnational costs of delivering re...

R&D requires expertise in the basic sciences, technical and technological knowledge, legal regulations business, it seems necessary to enhance collaboration between researchers businesses, especially small medium-sized enterprises. In this paper, we present a case study of university company implementation projects. The primary research methods used comprised literature analysis, participan...

A supply chain is composed of a complex sequence of processing stages, ranging from raw materials supplies, parts manufacturing, components and end-products assembling, to the delivery of end products. In the context of supply chain management, supplier selection decision is considered one of the key issues faced by operations and purchasing managers to remain competitive. Therefore, requiremen...

K R Balachandran is Professor of Accounting at the Stern School of Business, New York University and Bin Srinidhi is Associate Professor of Accounting at the Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University. Growing competition from foreign companies, notably from Japan, has resulted in increased attention being paid to cost and quality issues in the US. The traditional view is that improvemen...

In this article, activity-based costing, an approach that has proved to be an improvement over the conventional costing system in product costing, is introduced. By combining activity-based costing with standard costing, health care administrators can better plan and control the costs of health services provided while ensuring that the organization's bottom line is healthy.

Abstract The environment in which manufacturing small and medium enterprises operate has become very complex, therefore SME’s owners need to be aware of the impact their decisions have on society. aim research was identify innovative management accounting practices can integrated into SMEs’ strategies overcome challenge being blamed by stakeholders as contributors social environmental problems....