BACKGROUND Financial abuse of elders is an under acknowledged problem and professionals' judgements contribute to both the prevalence of abuse and the ability to prevent and intervene. In the absence of a definitive "gold standard" for the judgement, it is desirable to try and bring novice professionals' judgemental risk thresholds to the level of competent professionals as quickly and effectiv...

Real-world financial data is often nonlinear, comprises high-frequency multipolynomial components, and is discontinuous (piecewise continuous). Not surprisingly, it is hard to model such data. Classical neural networks are unable to automatically determine the optimum model and appropriate order for financial data approximation. We address this problem by developing neuron-adaptive higher order...

Business is reliant on Information Technology to process and share financial data. Proprietary formats often hinder the sharing of financial data as stakeholders can not uniformly read or access the data. As a result, XBRL (The eXtensible Business Reporting Language) was developed to address the information sharing issue, and is rapidly becoming the standard format for financial data. XBRL does...

The support vector machine (SVM) is a fast, and reliable machine learning mechanism. In this paper, we evaluated the stock price predictability of SVM, which is a kind of fundamental analysis that predicts the stock price from corporate intrinsic value. Corporate financial statements are used as input into SVM. Based on the results, we predicted the rise or drop of the stock. In addition, we ev...

Channel financing (CF) has emerged as a transformational paradigm in supply chain management. It is an effective tool for managing the interdependencies between the physical and the financial supply chains. It is also a win-win proposition for all the supply chain partners. In this paper, 6 dimensions of CF have been identified. Organizational study has been carried out in 60 Indian companies t...

While many firms have used advancements in information and communication technology to optimize their supply chain and primary processes, there is still a substantial efficiency potential associated with financial processes. In this paper, a conceptual framework for a systematic financial chain management is developed. Based on this, an empirical survey with the Fortune 1,000 enterprises of Ger...

The extant literature has shown the impact of demographic characteristics such as gender audit committee members on earnings management but ignored importance board room's age diversity. Going beyond prior literature, our study aims to examine how diversity financial experts (ACFEs) influences reporting quality Chinese non-financial firms. We found a negative relationship between ACFEs' and ear...

Even though most American retirees benefit from Medicare coverage, a mounting body of research predicts that many will face large and increasing out-of-pocket expenditures for healthcare costs in retirement and that many already struggle to finance these costs. It is unclear, however, whether the general population understands the likely magnitude of these out-of-pocket expenditures well enough...

The communication policy of the European Central Bank attracts a lot of attention from financial markets. This paper analyses the informational content of the monthly introductory statements of the ECB president explaining interest rate decisions with regard to inflation expectations of financial market experts for the euro area from February 1999 to June 2007. Estimations are conducted for the...

Tanzanian Higher learning institutions are faced with challenges of adopting e-learning in education. This study used experts in e-learning to examine barriers of adopting elearning and the best strategies to overcome them. Five major barriers were identified: poor infrastructure; financial constraints; inadequate support; lack of e-learning knowledge and teachers’ resistance to change. It is r...