Uncertainty is the core variable in any contingency theoretical framework (Chapman, 1997; Donaldson, 2001). Many reviews however have claimed that the accounting literature lacks a comprehensive framework for analysis of the relationship between uncertainty and MCS (Otley, 1980; Dent, 1990; Chapman, 1997;...

Venture capital (VC) funds are supplied by a wide range of individual and institutional investors with varied risk profile. The funds vary in size and given funds life VC fund managers thus face two tiers of issues with liquidity and risk management. First the fund managers could face a set of...

In this paper we define a new dynamic approach for measuring the Cash- Flow-at-Risk of a firm. Starting from the assumption that the balance sheet evolves according to a system of difference equations involving the most important accounting records, we define a new risk measure, tailored on our...

Purpose: The liquefied natural gas (LNG) business comprises a number of economic activities with inherent risks. This paper proposes an integrated modelling approach, as part of the investment decision making process, for optimising economic returns from LNG whilst taking into account...

Firms seem to care a lot about "risk management": the practice of hedging risks whether they are correlated with market risk or not. The standard reasons why widely held corporations might be averse to idiosyncratic risk are based on the principal-agent problem, bankruptcy costs, external...

2012 was a tumultuous year for international investment banks, not least because of the emergence of the LIBOR scandal, just as the world's largest banks were emerging from the turmoil of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). For two banks that had survived the GFC fairly well, Barclays and...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are recognized for their major contribution to the economic development of any country. In Romania, SMEs represent 99.7% of all organizations and employ approximately 66% of all nationally registered employees, percentages approximately equal to those...

Currently volatility is inherent a supply chain. A business entity within the supply chain faces with demand fluctuations and many other problem situations that cause disruptions. Despite this supply chain should deliver goods or services at acceptable predefined levels of customer value, not...

Purpose: Many firms did not have mechanisms in place prior to 2007 to identify and track the weak signals of an impending financial crisis, and as a result they were not prepared for the stresses and opportunities the crisis generated. This paper offers a solution for identifying the weak...

Research Question/Issue: The existing literature documents the possibility that investors may consider female Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) less valuable investment targets due to the prejudice against women. This study examines Female CEOs' contributions to company value in the stock market,...