The intensity of competition in business markets is to the extent that even the slightest strategic mistakes will lead to the failure of the organizations. The lack of knowledge and implementation of appropriate competitive strategies in such markets and, on the other hand, the failure to review the effects of these strategies on the types of cash flows in diverse capital structures is no also ...

A classic theory of corporate governance holds that, when cash flow is high and investment opportunities scarce, takeover threats reduce managerial self dealing and encourage dividend payment to owners. We conduct laboratory experiments studying the effect of cash flow on self dealing and the effect of takeover threats on both agency problems and the optimality of management of cash flows. We f...

With currently depressed milk prices, many Michigan dairy operations are struggling to meet current cash flow commitments. This article, the first of a series of articles addressing cash flow problems, examines ways to manage debt. The other articles to follow will explore profitability of the Michigan dairy industry, other methods for improving cash flow (including income tax management), unde...

Using a firm-level panel data set I assess whether dynamic models of investment provide an empirically fruitful framework for analyzing tax effects on changes in capital stock. In particular I estimate a one-step error correction model (ECM) complementing the usual estimation of a distributed lag model. A correction term accounts for non-random sample attrition, which has not been considered in...

The excessive level of construction business failures and their association with financial difficulties has placed financial management in the forefront of many business imperatives. This has highlighted the importance of cash flow forecasting and management which has given rise to the development of several forecasting models. The traditional approach to the use of project financial models has...

The objective in traditional scheduling is usually time based. Minimizing the makespan, total flow times, total tardi costs, etc. are instances of these objectives. In manufacturing, processing each job entails a cost paying and price receiving. Thus, the objective should include some notion of managing the flow of cash. We have defined two new objectives: maximization of average and minimum av...

With the proposed RBC requirements for variable annuities with guarantees (so called C3 Phase II) requiring stochastic testing, there should be a lot of interest in the approaches to reducing the number of runs. This article provides strategies to reduce number of runs in stochastic insurance modeling as well as cash flow testing when the interest scenarios are stochastic. Three interest rate s...