a number of theories about the hest method of allocating assets have been developed over the years, managers are concernd about allocating scarce resources, mainly capital, in most productive way. managers want to ensure that the return from the invested resources exceeds the cost of resources finanical theories and finanicial strategies try to facilitate creating optimum value for investors in...

Large companies have long sensed the potential value of investing in external start-ups, but more often than not, they fail to get it right. Remember the dash to invest in new ventures in the late 1990s and the hasty retreat when the economy turned? This article presents a framework that will help a company decide whether it should invest in a particular start-up by first understanding what kin...

Typical activities of financial asset management, such as asset allocation, stock ranking, bond trading, stock exchange trading and in general portfolio choices, have a considerable role in modern finance. Professional operators and especially banks are highly interested in understanding and predicting financial markets' trends. One key area of interest for banks is the asset-liability manageme...

Forecasting is never able to correctly predict the future. Its main purpose therefore is to gain some understanding of the future. Hardly anyone these days will make multimillion euros plans and implement them without at least trying to simulate the future and studying some possible scenarios. Decision making is the core management activity. As airport business environments become more and more...