In investment, particularly in the portfolio management, the risk and returns are two crucial measures in making investment decisions. This paper attempts to provide a brief theoretical explanation with examples on determining the returns and associated risk of shares, and of the portfolio of...

The elasticity is an important measure impacting on a form's revenue. Hence, it is important for a firm to know how the proposed change in price of its product can affect its total revenue, when the product is to be sold in the new market condition at the new price. In this context, the measure...

This paper reviews the main contributions of organisational innovation in the literature towards bringing a sustainable organisation and development. The review basically illustrates four main interrelated concepts: organisational innovation, organisational performance, sustainable organisation...

The concept of elasticity in economics is taught mostly in secondary education. Students generally mix up slope and elasticity even though many textbooks explain the difference between them. This note is to substantiate explanations by Round and McIver (2006) in view of exploring possible...

Tourism is one of the growing industries in Sri Lanka in the post war development. Its contribution to the Sri Lankan economy is vital in the same context. The objective of this study is to examine the causal relationship between economic growth and tourism earning in Sri Lanka during 1977-2012....

For investing in profitable ventures, the firms intend to recover the investment made in them. Thus, the determination of the respective cost of capital of a venture can provide a base for making decisions on whether to accept the project profitably. In this context, this paper provides some...

The cash flow estimation is important to evaluate projects in view of adding values to the owners’ equity of a firm. Cash flow estimation is a primary requirement for capital budgeting and using project evaluation techniques. Hence, this paper provides cash flow estimation methods from an...

As the objective of the capital budgeting is to add values to the wealth of an owner of a business, the capital budgeting primarily insists the recovery of investments made in the projects. To improve the owner’s wealth, it is important to evaluate and identify profitable projects using some...

Information Technology (IT) moves at a fast rate of utilizing modern electrical equipment. Thus, all the sectors of the world economy do face challenges to deal with the environmental problems and their impacts on the work environment and green information technology (GIT) become important to...

Nowadays, due to the huge deterioration of the environment, not only the human beings, but also the day-to-day business environment suffers adversely. Hence, “Go Green” behavior becomes a globally accepted direction of every individual and business. “Go Green” is an earth-friendly living...