Both the UK spot and futures markets in short term interest rates are found to react strongly to surprises in the scheduled announcements of the repo rate and RPI. Therefore these announcements should also affect the market for options on short term interest rates. Because the repo rate and RPI...

This pape contrasts the involvement of British and German Management Accountants in processes of organisational strategy-making. Analysing ethnographic material, it considers how accounting becomes implicated in formulation of organisational purpose and strategy in the British and German firms...

Drawing on actor-network theory, this study examines the role of financial and non-financial information in the stabilization of collaborative supply relationships (CSRs).

Economics was slow to emerge as a distinct academic and professional discipline in the United Kingdom. In the years around 1900, some British universities began to offer degrees in commerce, including accounting. These degrees were influenced by the contemporary emergence of business economics...

A geometrical interpretation of multiple regression is proposed. The method is explained within the context of the tourism industry by developing a model for the management of hotels. The paper first explains the technique in non-mathematical terms and is completed with the mathematical proof of...

Much of the literature on Executive Information Systems (EIS) development provides lists of factors critical to the successful EIS development. This paper argues that a better understanding of the relationship between key sucess factors and the EIS development is required if sucess factors are...