Traditional MAPs such as standard costing and variance analysis, traditional budgeting and cost volume profit analysis have been under attack for some time now as being out of date and not suitable for today's new manufacturing and business environment. Thus, to keep pace with such new...

Financial deregulations or financial liberalization can be referred to a variety of changes in the law which allows financial institutions more freedom in how they compete. Whether deregulations are beneficial or harmful to the economy has been widely debated.This paper investigates the effect...

The global financial crisis has focused attention to the proper identification, analysis and management of key business risks because inadequate risk assessment has been identified as one of the main factors of a failure or financial difficulties of a large number of organizations worldwide....

Most of the blame for the present Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has been attributed to securitization and CDSs in the years preceding growth of the crisis. On reflection, most of the blame must be “sheeted home” to the former U.S government’s mandate to banks and other financial...

The study investigates the relationship between capital structure and profitability of conglomerate, consumer goods, and financial services firms quoted in Nigeria Stock Exchange. In this paper, the sample data collected from the ten randomly selected firms among the three industries were from...

In the last decade corporate control has been facing a major challenge enhanced by successive corporate scandals; moreover, the shape of relationship between financial decisions (capital structure) and ownership structure on the firm value has been the heart debate of academics and financial...

The recent European sovereign debt crisis proved public debt issues should not be easily approached. While, prior to the crisis, public debt was of little concern in most of the developed European countries, as there had been no recent episodes of sovereign default, the crisis revived longtime...

On this paper is conducted a study on the impact that will have the public debt to the growth rate of Greece for the period 2014-2017. Along with the estimation, in order to be a comprehensive picture of public debt and growth in Greece we proceeded with a presentation of data for the period...