This study attempts to analyse the profit efficiency of Indian banks during 2008-2012 to offer an understanding of their business performance and trends during the period. The extant literature suggests that conventional ratio-based performance measures are inadequate to address the different...

A data processing procedure, DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) is described as as an analytical tool in audit engagement. DEA receives data inputs from from financial statements of a plurality of clients, constructs efficiency frontiers and evaluates relative income efficiencies. DEA can be used...

The performance appraisal measures developed and applied at companies allow them to carry out self-assessments and to seek improvement plans, among others. One of the ways of seeking refinement is through the use of benchmarking, in which companies become involved in a learning system, comparing...

In this paper we deal with the measurement of technical efficiency (or X-efficiency) of institutions whose operations might be significantly affected by macroeconomic, environmental and non-controllable factors. For this purpose we introduce a four-stage DEA methodology based on the approach...

This paper is aimed at exploring how X-efficiency or management quality is associated with one of the most vivid forms of international banking, that is, entering new markets by setting up foreign subsidiaries. The analysis focuses on the supposition that management quality ought to be one of...

Line item budgeting is a widely used managerial control device in governmental and nonprofit organizations. In this study, we explicitly model the relationship between input quantities and their prices with particular focus on the line item budgeting assumption of input separability, i.e.,...

Banks must manage their trading books, not just value them. Pricing includes valuation adjustments collectively known as XVA (at least credit, funding, capital and tax), so management must also include XVA. In trading book management we focus on pricing, hedging, and allocation of prices or...