Cooperative Lot Sizing Games in Supply Chains

The presented work combines two areas of research: cooperative game theory and lot size optimization. One of the most essential problems in cooperations is to allocate cooperative profits or costs among the partners. The core is a well known method from cooperative game theory that describes efficient and stable profit/cost allocations. A general algorithm based on the idea of constraint generation to compute core elements for cooperative optimization problems is provided. Beside its application for the classical core, an extensive discussion of core variants is presented and how they can be handled with the proposed algorithm. 

Your Mortgage and How To Pay It Off In Five Years (Audiobook, MP3)

How many more decades before your mortgage is paid off? How many tens of thousands of dollars in interest will you pay between now and then? This book shows how to free yourself. Anita Bell and her husband, Jim, paid off a three-bedroom brick home on a combined income of less than $50,000 when interest rates were at 17%. And they did it in three years.

Are Your Customers Being Served?

Many organizations chase the Holy Grail of obtaining new customers, spending time, money and energy on winning them only to provide them with a service or product that quite frankly is inferior. What a waste! If we do not look after our customers then someone else will. In addition, those dissatisfied customers will tell others about their experience, and once an organisation gains a negative reputation it is extremely difficult to change it. Having a good reputation for excellent service and products is one very successful way of building a competitive advantage. 

Financial Accounting - Concepts and Applications 11 Ed.

The eleventh edition of Financial Accounting guides students through the what, why and how of accounting in today's business world. This textbook offers a solid presentation of concepts and procedures blended with a wealth of real company examples and solved exercises to ensure student success in the practical application of fundamental accounting principles. Students will learn to effectively use and prepare financial accounting information for decision making with various features that encourage critical thinking, highlight ethical considerations, and consider global implications.

Mutual Fund Performance and Performance Persistence

Superior investment performance is the ultimate objective of mutual fund investors. However, past fund performance is no reliable indicator of future performance. Peter Lueckoff investigates why fund flows and manager changes act as equilibrium mechanisms and drive the performance of both previously outperforming and previously under-performing funds back to average levels. These results have important implications for investors, investment management companies and regulators.