Quality function deployment (QFD) is a management tool that provides a visual connective process to help teams focus on the needs of the customers throughout the total development cycle of a product or process. It provides the means for translating customer needs into appropriate technical...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to measure the efficiency and the productive slacks of a sample of major UK auditing firms between 2005 and 2012. Design/methodology/approach Using the bootstrapping technique as the cornerstone method, DEA estimates were computed, allowing the test for...

This study examines the existing credit rating methodology proposed in the literature to explore the development of a new credit rating model based on the financial variables of the enterprise. The focus is on the period after the financial crisis of 2018. This study aims to develop a credit...

This study explores the insurance pricing domain in the motor insurance industry, focusing on the creation of "technical models" which are essentially obtained after combining the frequency model (the expected number of claims per unit of exposure) and the severity model (the expected amount per...

Purpose This work aims to determine the best linear model using an artificial neural network (ANN) with the imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA-ANN) and ANN to predict the energy consumption for land leveling. Design/methodology/approach Using ANN, integrating artificial neural network and...