In the neoclassical model of the firm, value surplus of the firm is assumed to accrue to its owner. Contract model suggests a distribution of the surplus among various agents depending on the imperfections of the markets in which they transact with the firm. If the share of the surplus to an...

In this paper, we seek to provide empirical documentation of the effect of Activity-Based Costing (ABC) information on product and customer-related decisions made by managers in a company. Proponents of ABC argue that when an entity implements ABC, it reaps at least two important benefits:...

Start-ups and their respective market partners are faced with severe problems of asymmetric information due to their lack of prior production history and reputation. Given this situation, it is most likely that outside financiers will not be informed about the potential gains, losses, and risks...

BPM is a software category that offers information at a high level of synthesis so that management can take strategic decisions that draw tendencies and orientations for the enterprise. The goal of a BPM initiative is to steer the entire organization in the same direction, enabling the...

Substantial work has been done during the past three decades to determine the theories of trade credit. But as observed by Frank and Maksimovic (1998), though the theories apply in specific circumstances, they are unable to explain the widespread use of trade credit and the empirical patterns of...

Since bank credit lines are a major source of corporate funding, we examine the determinants of credit line usage with a comprehensive database of Spanish corporate credit lines. A line's default status is a key factor driving its usage, which increases as a firm's financial condition worsens....

Mehra and Prescott (1985) argued that, according to sensible asset pricing models, stocks should provide at most a 0.35% premium over bills. However, companies use higher equity premia (average around 6%) for evaluating their investment projects, professors use in class and in their textbooks...

We analyze the results of a recent survey of executives and finance professors. We present the required equity premium used in 2008 by 216 companies and 39 professors and their comments. The range of the 216 companies goes from 2% to 30% (average 6.3%) and the range of the 39 academics goes from...

The introduction of the Altman's Z-score model in 1983 and much recently the Enyi's Relative Solvency Ratio model in 2005 has divergently provided financial analysts with alternative methods of analyzing corporate solvency which hitherto was exclusively done using the traditional historical...