This research explores the relationship among entrepreneurial motivation, related experience, environment hostility and financial success, among small retail business owner managers in Penang, Malaysia. Entrepreneurial motivation was categorized into 5 dimensions which are self-development,...

In this study, a three‐factor model of crude oil prices is estimated, which incorporates a time‐varying market price of risk. The model is able to accurately capture the term structure of futures prices with evidence suggesting that risk premiums in the crude oil market are time‐varying....

This paper compares the performance of three maximum likelihood estimation procedures -quasi-maximum likelihood, Monte Carlo likelihood and the particle filter to estimate stochastic volatility models of short term interest rates. The procedures are compared in an empirical study of interest...

The Internal Auditing & Risk Management is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal started in 2006 by Athenaeum University and The Center of Excellence in Financial Management and Internal Audit and publishes original high-quality papers in the field of management and auditing

This paper work emphasizes the importance of the strategic management for the present companies, no matter the dimension or the field. More important becomes thou, the implementation and utilization of systems that represents support for business processes and information flows because of focus...

The financial and accounting activity represents an important function of the organisation, through which measurement, evaluation, knowledge, management and control of assets, liabilities and equity can be performed, as well as the outcomes of the economic activity. Risk management process...