From clean toilets to working computers, your company incurs many costs that it cannot assign to one particular "cost object" -- a product, project, department or service. You must nonetheless cover ...

This paper introduces a novel approach for allocating a bank’s risk capital across individual portfolios and transactions. This allocation is pivotal for various capital applications, including ...

From a reader who is a dear friend of mine: There are obvious many disparate approaches to asset allocation. Similar to the disparate approaches of any style of investing, each asset allocation ...

Ali Hussain has a background that consists of a career in finance with large financial institutions and in journalism covering business. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, ...

There’s a lot to consider when running your own diversified portfolio and a key decision is what approach to take. Do you keep abreast of the world’s economic situation, or are you more laid back?

When businesses conduct operations across state lines, the states must develop processes to prevent unfair and excessive taxation. The states use two primary methods to determine a company's tax ...

The basic objective of every bank is to find an optimal business strategy that maximises return on capital (ROC). To this end, banks will allocate more capital to desks that generate the highest ROC, ...

A five-judge constitution bench of the apex court unanimously held that auction could be only among several methods for distribution of natural resources. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday said ...