In the current environment of cut-throat competition, razor-thin profit margins, and increasing scrutiny from stakeholders, mastering the fundamentals of financial management is a must for everyone with a stake in their companies and in their own professional futures. Packed with step-by-step examples and illustrative case studies, and updated to reflect the latest trends in the economy and in …
There are two main alternative explanations in the literature for the patterns of financial reporting during the period of the British Industrial Revolution (BIR). Rob Bryer sees the new social relations of production in which manufacturing entrepreneurs strove to increase the productivity of wage-labour as leading to a distinct capitalist “calculative mentality”, focused on the return on …
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how a stakeholder approach based on a case-study research was used to define a method to be applied across the Portuguese seaport administrations (SA) in order to justify the tariffs to be charged for a variety of services provided by these entities. Design/methodology/approach – The study involved both the Portuguese maritime transport regulator (IP…
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether gendered differences in occupational aspirations still appear when considering students with similar abilities who study competitively in the same achievement-oriented educational setting.
The purpose of this paper is to examine the applicability of different drivers for assigning activity costs to products in warehouse logistics environment.
The purpose of this paper is to examine the applicability of different drivers for assigning activity costs to products in warehouse logistics environment.
The purpose of this article is to analyze problems involved in using a four-tiered, indirect sales-and-distribution (S&D) model and describe how a manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprise’s (SME’s) controller can master them.