There is increasing interest in discovering individualized treatment rules (ITRs) for patients who have heterogeneous responses to treatment. In particular, one aims to find an optimal ITR that is a deterministic function of patient-specific characteristics maximizing expected clinical outcome....

The term quot;strategic management accountingquot; has been in the management accounting literature for more than a decade. Despite many papers on the subject, there still seems to be a paucity of examples of strategic management accounting actually being used. This paper argues that the...

Recent corporate collapses have focussed attention on the (un)reliability of financial information. However, although the agricultural sector, which is significant globally, is run primarily using the cooperative form, there is scant research on these users' perception of financial information....