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A study was conducted during 2011 to estimate profit, benefit cost ratio (BCR) and household income of mushroom production and also to explore the problems of producing mushroom and its marketing channels in Bangladesh. Thirty samples... more

A study was conducted during 2011 to estimate profit, benefit cost ratio (BCR) and household income of mushroom production and also to explore the problems of producing mushroom and its marketing channels in Bangladesh. Thirty samples were randomly selected and information on mushroom production was collected using comprehensive questionnaire from Savar Upazila in Dhaka district. Mushroom was found to be a profitable agricultural enterprise (22,888 taka per farm). The benefit cost ratio (BCR) was 1.55. The average family household income was about Tk. 43,731. Usually, three intermediaries (mushroom office, wholesalers and retailers) are involved in the marketing channels of mushroom. The marketing margin of mushroom for farm-gate to wholesalers and wholesalers to retailers were taka 50 and 70 per kg, respectively. It was revealed that rich and middle income group people were the main mushroom customers. Even though mushroom is a profitable enterprise, the producers faced numerous pr...

PurposeThis paper seeks to investigate the relationship between capital structure and profitability of listed firms on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) during a five‐year period.Design/methodology/approachRegression analysis is used in the... more

PurposeThis paper seeks to investigate the relationship between capital structure and profitability of listed firms on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) during a five‐year period.Design/methodology/approachRegression analysis is used in the estimation of functions relating the return on equity (ROE) with measures of capital structure.FindingsThe results reveal a significantly positive relation between the ratio of short‐term debt to total assets and ROE. However, a negative relationship between the ratio of long‐term debt to total assets and ROE was found. With regard to the relationship between total debt and return rates, the results show a significantly positive association between the ratio of total debt to total assets and return on equity.Originality/valueThe research suggests that profitable firms depend more on debt as their main financing option. In the Ghanaian case, a high proportion (85 percent) of the debt is represented in short‐term debt.

Memasuki era revolusi industri 4.0 atau revolusi industri dunia keempat,teknologi informasi telah menjadi basis dalam kehidupan manusia,Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi (ICT) telah menjadi bagian darikehidupan kita sehari-hari terutama... more

Memasuki era revolusi industri 4.0 atau revolusi industri dunia keempat,teknologi informasi telah menjadi basis dalam kehidupan manusia,Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi (ICT) telah menjadi bagian darikehidupan kita sehari-hari terutama kedalam kurilkulum pendidikan sebagaisalah satu teknik pembelajaran.Terkait dengan hal tersebut, fokus penelitian ini adalah sebagai jawabanatas tantangan Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris memasuki era revolusi industri4.0 untuk mengetahui apakah ITN Malang, terutama Program StudiArsitektur dilengkapi dengan sarana prasarana Teknologi Informasi danKomunikasi (ICT) dan bagaimana Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi (ICT)bisa diterapkan dalam Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris.Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif dengan metode pengumpulandata melalui kuesioner dan wawancara. Penelitian ini dilakukan di ITNMalang pada semester ganjil 2018/2019. Populasi dalam penelitian iniadalah mahasiswa Arsitektur ITN Malang angkatan 2018 yang mengambilmata kuliah Bahasa...

As successful tourism firms invest heavily in marketing to defend or improve their competitive position, they increasingly need to measure their marketing performance. Previous studies related to tourism have largely focused on financial... more

As successful tourism firms invest heavily in marketing to defend or improve their competitive position, they increasingly need to measure their marketing performance. Previous studies related to tourism have largely focused on financial and operational performance, but the marketing perspective has been largely overlooked. Drawing on an in-depth investigation involving 12 hotel chains, 8 travel agencies and 8 tour operators, this study provides an overview of the state-of-the-art marketing performance measurements among some of the leading tourism firms in Italy. Several issues and unanswered questions are also identified.

In this paper a linear programming technique is applied to determine the optimise other process cost of cultivation of major veg - tables in Coimbatore by using TNAU Horticulture department data with respect to various factors. In this... more

In this paper a linear programming technique is applied to determine the optimise other process cost of cultivation of major veg - tables in Coimbatore by using TNAU Horticulture department data with respect to various factors. In this paper we are using simplex method to maximizing the profit. Linear programming technique is relevant in optimization of resource allocation & achieving effectively in production planning particularly in achieving increased agriculture production of food crops (tomato, bhendi, chilli).

This is an essential reference for all investment clubs - both new and established - to ensure that they are run correctly and efficiently. A successful investment club needs to run smoothly with a great amount of reliability and... more

This is an essential reference for all investment clubs - both new and established - to ensure that they are run correctly and efficiently. A successful investment club needs to run smoothly with a great amount of reliability and confidence among its members. When all members of the club expect and meet the same requirements, everyone works together in a way that induces success and profitability. Ojijo’s Investment Clubs Manual is the investment clubs’ bible and tells me everything I need to know about joining, starting or running a successful investments club. The vast majority of investments clubs in Africa and beyond swear by this guide.

Research review boards, established to protect the rights and welfare of human research subjects, have to ensure that conflicts of interest do not interfere with the ethical conduct of medical research. Private, commercial review boards,... more

Research review boards, established to protect the rights and welfare of human research subjects, have to ensure that conflicts of interest do not interfere with the ethical conduct of medical research. Private, commercial review boards, which increasingly review research protocols, are themselves affected by a structural conflict of interest. Within the regulatory setting, procedural conflict-of-interest rules are essential because of the absence of clear substantive rules in research review and the reliance on the fairness and good judgment of institutional review board members. Current guidelines and regulations lack adequate conflict-of-interest rules and provide insufficient details on the substantive rules. Because commercial review boards are similar to administrative courts and tribunals, rules of administrative law on bias are applied to determine when a conflict of interest jeopardizes the purposes of research review; administrative law has always judged financial conflicts of interest severely. The structure of private review tends to breach a core principle of administrative law and procedural justice. Reform of the research review system will reinforce public trust in the process.

Shareholder value orientation has commonly been considered a hallmark of corporate financialization. Today, firms increasingly share their profits with shareholders in the form of cash dividends and share buybacks. Yet how the shareholder... more

Shareholder value orientation has commonly been considered a hallmark of corporate financialization. Today, firms increasingly share their profits with shareholders in the form of cash dividends and share buybacks. Yet how the shareholder payouts are distributed by firms from various sectors, sizes and countries remains unexplored. To complement existing accumulation- and asset-centered approaches that focus, respectively, on how resources enter the firm and change its structure, we present a payouts-centered approach to corporate financialization that focuses on how resources leave the firm. This paper analyses firm-level trends in shareholder payouts in OECD member countries for the period 2000-2019, differentiating between types of distributed payouts. We show that shareholder payouts are high across various sectors and geographical locations, and not limited to a small subset of large, US-American financial corporations, but includes ‘big pharma’ and ‘big tech’ as well as Latin American and Israeli firms. The paper sheds light on the nature of the contemporary corporations and contributes to discussions on the increasing financialization of non-financial firms and their rising shareholder value orientation.
Keywords: corporate financialization; corporate sectors; non-financial corporations; shareholder payouts; shareholder value

Capital theory is one of the most controversial topics in economics and an object of debate inside the Austrian School of Economics. If Böhm-Bawerk’s capital theory, usually identified as the Austrian Capital Theory, left many Austrian... more

Capital theory is one of the most controversial topics in
economics and an object of debate inside the Austrian School of
Economics. If Böhm-Bawerk’s capital theory, usually identified
as the Austrian Capital Theory, left many Austrian economists
unsatisfied, a clear definition of capital, consistent with
Mengerian subjectivism, is still to be seen inside the School.
Following Ludwig Lachmann’s application of hermeneutics to
economics, this paper attemps to define capital as the outcome of subjective mental processes, determined by individual
intentions and expectations, rather than by specific physical or
economic features. The paper does not aim to totally redefine
capital theory but, more specifically, to reach a definition for
capital, capital goods, and capital value; these definitions
attempt to complete the work initiated by Lachmann in the
hope of finding a certain consensus among scholars dissatisfied
with the present state of capital theory, which is dominated by
an objectivist post-Ricardian perspective. Indeed, when
defining capital Lachmann seems unable to remain consistent
with his own brilliant criticism of the Ricardian perspective. In
particular, by distinguishing between ‘potential’ and ‘actual’
capital goods and capital in general, I try to overcome this gap
and to define capital and capital goods in radically subjectivist
terms.

Recently, the piecewise linear representation (PLR) method has been applied to the stock market for pattern matching. As such, similar patterns can be retrieved from historical data and future prices of the stock can be predicted... more

Recently, the piecewise linear representation (PLR) method has been applied to the stock market for pattern matching. As such, similar patterns can be retrieved from historical data and future prices of the stock can be predicted according to the patterns retrieved. In this paper, a different approach is taken by applying PLR to decompose historical data into different segments. As a result, temporary turning points (trough or peak) of the historical stock data can be detected and inputted to the backpropagation neural network (BPN) for supervised training of the model. After this, a new set of test data can trigger the model when a buy or sell point is detected by BPN. An intelligent PLR (IPLR) model is further developed by integrating the genetic algorithm with the PLR to iteratively improve the threshold value of the PLR. Thus, it further increases the profitability of the model. The proposed system is tested on three different types of stocks, i.e., uptrend, steady, and downtrend. The experimental results show that the IPLR approach can make significant amounts of profit on stocks with different variations. In conclusion, the proposed system is very effective and encouraging in that it predicts the future trading points of a specific stock.

Consumer credit risk assessment involves the use of risk assessment tools to manage a borrower’s account from the time of pre-screening a potential application through to the management of the account during its life and possible... more

Consumer credit risk assessment involves the use of risk assessment tools to manage a borrower’s account from the time of pre-screening a potential application through to the management of the account during its life and possible write-off. The riskiness of lending to a credit applicant is usually estimated using a logistic regression model though researchers have considered many other types of classifier and whilst preliminary evidence suggest support vector machines seem to be the most accurate, data quality issues may prevent these laboratory based results from being achieved in practice. The training of a classifier on a sample of accepted applicants rather than on a sample representative of the applicant population seems not to result in bias though it does result in difficulties in setting the cut off. Profit scoring is a promising line of research and the Basel 2 accord has had profound implications for the way in which credit applicants are assessed and bank policies adopted.

Educational entrepreneurs are economic agents in the social economy that meet the basic needs of citizens and organizations, providing the necessary foreign-language-competence education to individuals. On this basis people have more... more

Educational entrepreneurs are economic agents in the social economy that meet the basic needs of citizens and organizations, providing the necessary foreign-language-competence education to individuals. On this basis people have more opportunities for further education and finding/keeping jobs, mobility, social integration, etc.; their employers have more competitive organizations and can more easily carry out business abroad and with foreigners, etc.; and society is more integrated and boasts reduced unemployment and higher quality of life.
It is interesting to look at the profit and profitability of these educational entrepreneurs and to assess how attractive their niche is. This article summarizes the results of a survey, conducted in the period May - August 2017, of organizations in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, offering language training in the framework of the I Can More Programme and is a complement to a previous article focusing on the legal and social dimensions of these organizations. Keywords: Educational entrepreneur, profit, profitability, social economy.