Energy Cost Accounting: Conventional and Flow-oriented Approaches

Approaches to Accounting Theories

Price-Transparency and Cost Accounting

Health care reform is directed toward improving access and quality while containing costs. An essential part of this is improvement of pricing models to more accurately reflect the costs of providing care. Transparent prices that reflect costs are necessary to signal information to consumers and producers. This information is central in a consumer-driven marketplace. The rapid increase in high ...

Paraphrasing the meaning of physical environment comparative examining of audience-oriented, author-oriented and text-oriented (Islamic) approaches

Discussions derived from epistemology and its sub-branches are of the most important theoretical grounds affecting theoretical basis of art schools in particular architecture styles. During recent decades, two approaches of epistemology have been reciprocally shaped to know how one can paraphrase the meaning of physical environment. In the first approach, the audience and his knowledge are main...

Energy consumption and water production cost of conventional and renewable-energy-powered desalination processes

Desalination technologies improve water quality, greatly reduce water shortage problems, and improve quality of life and economic status. Two main technologies are currently used in water desalination: thermal (phase-change) processes and membrane processes. The primary thermal distillation processes include multistage flash distillation (MSF), multi-effect distillation (MED), and vapor compres...

Cost Models and Accounting in MeDoc

MeDoc has developed cost and payment models suitable for electronic library services. The partners cooperating in the MeDoc service are users, providers and producers of information products. The cost models ooered to the users are various forms of subscription and "pay per view"-purchase. As payment models both credit and debit models are considered suitable for the MeDoc service. Initially on...