Effective project management requires reliable knowledge of cash required in different stages of project life cycle. Getting this knowledge is highly dependent on sophisticated consideration of project environment. Nature of projects and their environments are associated with uncertain conditions. In this paper, a new project cash flow assessment method based on project scheduling is proposed t...

Hospital capital investment is important for acquiring and maintaining technology and equipment needed to provide health care. Reduction in capital investment by a hospital has negative implications for patient outcomes. Most hospitals rely on debt and internal cash flow to fund capital investment. The great recession may have made it difficult for hospitals to borrow, thus reducing their capit...

Spending the big bucks may seem inevitable to a cash-strapped city goer. This is especially true if you're a student pressed between a heavy load of school work and a tight budget. But have no fear ? the city that never sleeps offers a plethora of opportunities to learn, explore, and enjoy without blowing all your savings. You could start by checking out NYC: The Official Guide [2]. You can als...

Spending the big bucks may seem inevitable to a cash-strapped city goer. This is especially true if you're a student pressed between a heavy load of school work and a tight budget. But have no fear ? the city that never sleeps offers a plethora of opportunities to learn, explore, and enjoy without blowing all your savings. You could start by checking out NYC: The Official Guide [2]. You can als...

The automatic teller machine (ATM) will be for the foreseeable future the dominant mode of access to cash for those living in industrialized societies. In this article we present the ATM as a political site where a multiplicity of relationships—primarily but not exclusively between the customer and the bank—become configured in ways that serve some interests and not others. The article draws on...

where u1 is the proportion of the portfolio held in stocks, and u2 is the consumption rate. Evidently it is natural to take 0 ≤ u1 ≤ 1 and u2 ≥ 0, but in fact we shall allow −∞ < u1 <∞. If u1 > 1 then the cash part of the portfolio is negative, so we are borrowing money to buy stocks. If u1 < 0 then the stock part of the portfolio is negative, so we are so called shorting the stock. The goal is...

In this paper we study algorithms for pricing of financial contracts using a lattice process of interest rates. If the cash-flows generated by the contract depend on the history of the interest rates (path dependent contracts), then the pricing algorithms are typically of exponential complexity. We demonstrate that for some models, there exist polynomial algorithms for path dependent contracts....

In order to obtain SEO (Secondary Equity Offering) qualification, china listed companies would do different levels of earnings management centering on accounting earnings indicators. While previous researches on earnings management are mainly focused on enterprise management authorities’ accruals manipulation. In fact, in order to avoid losses, the user of statements would pay more attention to...

BACKGROUND To expand access to safe deliveries, some developing countries have initiated demand-side financing schemes promoting institutional delivery. In the context of conditional cash incentive scheme and free maternity care in public health facilities in India, studies have highlighted high out of pocket expenditure (OOPE) of Indian families for delivery and maternity care. In this context...

Spending the big bucks may seem inevitable to a cash-strapped city goer. This is especially true if you're a student pressed between a heavy load of school work and a tight budget. But have no fear ? the city that never sleeps offers a plethora of opportunities to learn, explore, and enjoy without blowing all your savings. You could start by checking out NYC: The Official Guide [2]. You can als...