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Description Construction is a risky business with only 47% of startup businesses in construction operating after four years. The indirect costs of failed companies far exceed the direct costs of their failure.        Financial Cash Flow Determinants of  Company Failure in the Construction ...

Description This report would not have been possible without the time and input of executives from the participating companies around the world. We thank all our respondents and hope that they, and our other readers, find the report's insights helpful in developing fixed assets management...

Description A Construction Contract is a contract specifically negotiated for the construction of an asset or a combination of Assets that are closely interrelated or interdependent in terms of their design, technology and function or their ultimate purpose or use ("Construction Contract: IAS...

Description It could be argued that the love of money (or greed) has become an endemic evil in modern society and that this cannot be better exemplified than by reference to the worst excesses of the 2008 banking crisis. Whilst there may well be ideological, religious, political and other evils...

Description The construction activity involves assembling materials and components designed and produced by a multitude of suppliers, working in a diversity of disciplines and technologies, in order to create what is regarded as 'the built environment'. Risk and Financial Management in...

Description The two basic issues associated with an investment decision are its feasibility and its desirability. Feasibility refers to the ability to actually access the necessary capital and complete the project. Clearly an investment could promise highly desirable levels of returns, but...

Description Delays on roads in urban areas cost the economy around 11 billion a year1. And the impacts of physical inactivity are just as large, leading to billions of pounds of avoidable costs for businesses and the NHS. Do not remove this if sending to pagerunnerr Page Title Value...

Description As the late 1990s came to a close, many companies had invested heavily in Internet, e-business, and information technology. As the technology bubble burst in 2000 many executives were asking "Where is the return on investment?" When capital to invest is scarce new e-business and...

Description The time value of money is a very important concept in agricultural finance. It is widely used in investment evaluation, particularly for discounted cash flow analysis of investment alternatives. It is also very useful in determining values for financial transactions. Decem bar ...

Description Money has time value. A rupee today is more valuable than a year hence. It is on this concept "the time value of money" is based. The recognition of the time value of money and risk is extremely vital in financial decision making. 1.1 INTRODUCTION Money has time value. A rupee...

Description Various attempts have been undertaken to further automate the BPM lifecycle. One of the recent initiatives in this area is the Semantic Business Process Management approach as pursued within the SUPER project. It aims at bridging the gap between business and IT worlds by increasing...

Description The relationship between organizational structure and performance in small firms has received relatively limited attention over the last few decades. In understanding small firm performance this seems to be a serious omission. In this paper, we first present the rationale for...

Description The organizational type you choose for your business, sometimes called a "legal structure," can impact your taxes and income Organizational Types and Considerations for a Small Business Participant Guide Money Smart for a Small Business Curriculum Page 2 of 21 Table of Contents...

Description While the owners of farms and small businesses are often portrayed as self-reliant individuals working against overwhelming odds, the reality is that often several people make important contributions to the success of the business. These people may be a spouse, family members...

Description Studies of businesses based on tax and information returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have generally focused on the financial activities or behaviors of one or more business legal or organizational types. The motives for these studies have generally been: (1) to...

Description Valuation lies at the heart of much of what we do in finance, whether it is the study of market efficiency and questions about corporate governance or the comparison of different investment decision rules in capital budgeting. Employee Engagement: A Literature Review Dharmendra...

Description Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model that estimates the current value of the company's expected future cash flows. This value is then compared to the current stock price to assess whether or not the stock is attractively priced. Southern Cross University ePublications@SCU S!&++( +$...

Description Mining and metals continue to be among the best performing global equity sectors, but conflicting issues - from "pricing bubbles", "imminent recessions", "demand destruction" to "resource scarcity"- are confusing investors. Nevertheless, the importance of mining to the world has...

Description Fundamentals are associated with the economic health of a company. The fundamentals tell you about a company. We can say a company is having healthy fundamentals if it is growing at a nice pace, generating a profit, has limited debts and abundant cash. The analysis of a company's...

Description The unique nature of capital market instruments forces investors to depend strongly on fundamental factors in their investment decisions. These fundamental factors relate to the overall economy or a specific industry or a company. The performance of the securities that represent the...