This study attempts to explore how working capital decision, that is, aggressive investment and finance decision efficiency of the management (WCM) contribute profitability operationalised by gross operating profit (GOP) return on assets listed manufacturing firms in Bangladesh. To investigate this relationship, has taken into consideration 468 sample observations from 108 covering year 2013 20...

The study investigated the impact of corporate income tax on government expenditure in Nigeria. Data tax, value added interest rate, gross domestic product, petroleum profit and consumer price index were collected used as independent variable while data public estimated model. ARDL bound test was applied result showed that have long run relationship is significant with expenditure. Other forms ...

The study was taken to analyse the Shrimp Culture Business in Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh. performance of shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) culture business terms production, marketing, finance and also constraints faced by farmers analysed. Aquaculture were classified into small (1-2 ha), semi-medium (2-4 medium (4-10 ha) large (>10 ha). results revealed that average gross income earned Rs...

The effect of land fragmentation on agriculture has worried policymakers for a long time because it is expected to be a negative effect. Land consolidation policies are frequently implemented to soften the degree of land fragmentation. However, to the authors' knowledge, no study in the dairy sector has empirically analyzed the role of land fragmentation on farm productivity and profits. This s...

This paper analyzes the possibility of a monopoly firm selling and renting a packaged software product. It employs a simple model to analyze the firm's pricing strategy. We observe that the introduction of the rental product leads to an increase in profits, an increase in selling and a decrease in rental prices as a function of the rate of change of the rental price with respect to the quantity...

Part I of this Article explains the dual analysis of ethics (ethical base of markets as a process and an end result) as it relates to profits and market efficiency. In particular, the author questions whether individuals are able to judge their own welfare and, if so, do individuals accept that they are the best judge. Part II explains the ethics of profit and its relation to poverty. Specifica...

In this paper, we propose two decision models for decentralized and centralized fresh produce supply chains with stochastic supply and demand and controllable transportation time. The optimal order quantity and the optimal transportation time in these two supply chain systems are derived. To improve profits in a decentralized supply chain, based on analyzing the risk taken by each participant i...

Using aggregate data from the Annual Survey of Industries, we analyze profitability in India’s organized manufacturing sector from 1982-83 to 2012-13. Over the whole period of analysis, the rate of profit grew at about 1 percent per annum, primarily driven by a rising share of profits. We use structural break tests to identify medium and short run regimes. We find two medium run regimes, one of...

The implications of the causal and ubiquitous use, by doctors health-workers and politicians, of the word 'patient' are here discussed. Given that the many implications of this noun do not include health or normality (rather the contrary), it is questionable who, if anyone, profits from its indiscriminate use--and its use, even, at all.