Financing Automobile Sales by the Time-Payment Plan

Do sales tax credits stimulate the automobile market?

Available online 1 March 2010

The price of reverse factoring: Financing rates vs. payment delays

Reverse factoring—a financial arrangement where a corporation facilitates early payment of its trade credit obligations to suppliers—is increasingly popular in industry. Many firms use the scheme to induce their suppliers to grant them more lenient payment terms. By means of a periodic review base stock model that includes alternative sources of financing, we explore the following question: wha...

Territorial Design Optimization for Business Sales Plan

Asia Pacific agrees health-financing plan.

1426 www.thelancet.com Vol 375 April 24, 2010 See Comment page 1417 When US President Barack Obama decided to cancel a much-anticipated visit to his strongest Asian Pacifi c allies and stay in Washington, DC, to push his health reform bill through US Congress, his excuse was probably the one thing that resonated most powerfully with his disappointed hosts. Health fi nancing is one of the bigges...

Rural Medicare Advantage Plan Payment in 2015.

Payment to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans was fundamentally altered in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). MA plans now operate under a new formula for county-level payment area benchmarks, and in 2012 began receiving quality-based bonus payments. The Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus Payment Demonstration expanded the bonus payments to most MA plans through 2014; howeve...