This study compares activity-based costing (ABC) model and traditional costing method in Malaysia. Activity based costing (ABC) which was developed into the manufacturing/service sectors in Malaysia. It calculates the cost and performance of activities, resources and cost objects. It can be...

Most road accidents in Chile (causing about 1,600 deaths per year) are linked to speeding. A widely used control mechanism all over the world, the speed detectors, enabled in the middle of the 1990’s was then suddenly prohibited in Chile through the enactment of a law justified on the idea...

Through this paper the author discusses the phenomenon of excessive Government borrowing and the factors that lead Governments to be so dependent on financial markets. It is argued that the combined effect of unregulated financial intermediaries, hedge funds and Credit Rating Agencies in...

n agents located along a river generate residues that then require cleaning to return the river to its natural state, which entails some cost. We propose several rules to distribute the total pollutant-cleaning cost among all the agents. We provide axiomatic characterizations using properties...

In this paper I examine a taxpayer utility function determined by the extended set of variables - i.e. consumption, labor and tax-evasion propensity. This constitutes the main framework for the analysis of taxpayer's decision making process under assumption that in the economy there exist two...

Die hohe Mobilität der Bevölkerung trägt zur Teilhabe am Arbeitsmarkt und am gesellschaftlichen Leben bei. Dabei ist der Mobilitätsbedarf stark von der Lebenssituation abhängig; so haben Studenten und Erwerbstätige die höchste Verkehrsnachfrage. Anders als in früheren Jahrzehnten wächst...

Our paper assesses the accuracy of individuals ́tax perceptions. Based on personal interviews, we aim to find out how tax complexity affects the capability of respondents to calculate income tax liability. Tax complexity is measured by interacting multiple tax rates, applied to one or more tax...

Creation of optimal tax and budget systems is one of the Difficult problems of economic science. One of the most important areas of tax reform is to develop a tax code in the aspect of optimal tax gravity. The new tax code - a step to improvement, since a number of reduced taxes and simplified...