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Cost-of-capital estimation and capital-budgeting practice in Australia: Abstract: We use a sample survey to analyse the capital-budgeting practices of Australian listed companies. We find that NPV, IRR and Payback are the most popular evaluation techniques. Real options techniques have gained a toehold in capital budgeting but are not yet part of the mainstream. Discounting is typically...; Tags: adjustment, Australia, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, budgeting, Companies, Education, finance, financial, G., Heath, Investment, M., MARKETING, PRODUCTIVITY, Ryan, survey, tax, technique; Research articles 2008-06-01
Financial woes? Get help!(OTHER WISE): THESE ARE TRYING TIMES FOR CONSUMERS as the American economy struggles with a housing and credit slump, job cuts on the rise, and fears of a recession looming. Many are struggling with mortgage payments, car payments, credit card debt, and all the other living expenses which...; Tags: agency, budgeting, FINANCE, financial, FTC, payment; Research articles 2008-03-01
News: Companies should implement auto-enrolment sooner.: Byline: Gill Wadsworth Employers anxious about the cost of personal accounts should implement auto- enrolment ahead of the 2012 deadline, Fidelity International claimed. The fund manager argued scheme sponsors that grabbed the enrolment nettle now would be better equipped to deal...; Tags: budgeting, Fidelity Investments; Research articles 2007-11-19
OUR VIEW: Same old, same old 'New' Congress following predictable path Nostradamus, watch your back. Our uncannily accurate prediction of December 10, 2006, made in this very space, which every reader should have taped to the refrigerator, seems to be coming true. But our delight at...; Tags: budgeting, Democrat, president, Republican, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2007-09-29
National guard, reserves get help, but need more.(POINT OF VIEW): It has been widely recognized that the National Guard is over-committed and under-equipped. Many members of Congress also acknowledge that the challenges facing the National Guard go beyond equipment and personnel to include a lack of institutional power within the Pentagon and antiquated processes for organizing,...; Tags: budgeting, commission, Guard, Pentagon, SALES, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2007-08-01

The city of El Cajon has received excellence awards from the California Society of Municipal Finance Officers and the Government Finance Officers Association in budgeting and financial reporting: The city of El Cajon has received excellence awards from the California Society of Municipal Finance Officers and the Government Finance Officers Association in budgeting and financial reporting. Additionally, the city was the recipient of excellence awards for capital budgeting and development of the city's five-year business plan. ...; Tags: budgeting, FINANCE, financial, Government Finance Officers Association, officer; Research articles 2007-06-11
Budgeting for worklife balance: the ideology and politics of work and family policy in Australia: Abstract Since its election in 1996 the Howard Government has invested billions of dollars in Australian families with children. Much of this money has been delivered through policies the Government claims will 'support families in the choices they wish to make' about how they combine paid work and family...; Tags: Australia, benefit, budgeting, Bureau, Canberra, Government, income, OECD, payment, tax, women; Research articles 2007-06-01
NAACP gears up for a tough task: A resolution to change the start date of the Utah legislative session from the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday received unanimous support from both the House and Senate. But advocates for the change still have plenty of work ahead, because the measure requires amending the state's Constitution through...; Tags: budgeting, U.S. Senate; Research articles 2007-03-03
Senate passes budgeting bill: Before receiving any funding, state agencies would be required to justify all their spending under a bill that passed out of the Senate on Monday. SB63 is an attempt to make state agencies more accountable for their budget expenditures, said Sen. Wayne Niederhauser, R-Sandy. With the bill, state...; Tags: agency, budgeting, MARKETING, U.S. Senate; Research articles 2007-02-20
Budgeting for Spending on Education and Health Care Draw Most Support Among Americans.: Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Feb. 5 AScribe Newswire -- Overall, the American public favors more government spending, particularly for education and health, areas that have consistently lead the public's spending priorities in recent years, according to a new survey from the National Opinion...; Tags: budgeting, education, Government, MARKETING, SOFTWARE, survey, University of Chicago; Research articles 2007-02-05
Electronic resource management: a multi-period capital budgeting approach: INTRODUCTION As the costs for acquisitions have been rising consistently faster than the increases in budgets, academic libraries are struggling to financially manage their subscriptions of electronic resources, including electronic journals, databases, and books (Leonard, 1994; Prabha and Ogden, 1994). More specifically, the increasing costs of journals, considered crucial...; Tags: budgeting, computer, COUNTER, Education, Engineering, Lehigh University, Memory, PRODUCTIVITY, Psychology; Research articles 2006-12-22
Budget misery not going away.(Washington PULSE)(Army)(Brief article): The Army got eleventh-hour emergency funding relief from Congress last month, but its budget woes are far from over. While hundreds of billions of dollars in war funding have flowed its way, it is disconcerting to many that the Army ran out of money this summer and...; Tags: budgeting, Iraq, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2006-09-01
Budgeting for the young (and lower paid).: Byline: Susan Ryan Jul 20, 2006 (Investor Weekly - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Budget simplifies the retirement phase of superannuation. The reforms, announced in May 2006, are likely to reduce the number of retirees needing public pensions. However, greater provisions...; Tags: Benefits, budgeting, FINANCE, pension, U.S. Senate; Research articles 2006-07-20
On the Importance of the Plumber: The Intersection of Theory and Practice in Policymaking for Federal Financial Institutions/Commentary: The federal government's role as lender and insurer is very important, with over $1.4 trillion of loans and guarantees and at least $7 trillion of insured risk. Tens of millions of Americans benefit from housing loans, student loans, flood insurance, etc. Yet the federal financial institutions established to run these...; Tags: benefit, borrower, budgeting, FINANCE, financial, Government, Insurance, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., policymaker, subsidy, theory, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2006-07-01
Budgeting for disastersPart II. Solutions: better budgeting techniques and hedges will help state and local governments prepare for disastrous expenses: As noted in the first article of this series, historically, when disaster strikes, all levels of government do what is necessary and worry about paying for it later. Local and state governments share the responsibility for protecting their citizens from disasters and for helping them to recover when a disaster...; Tags: accountability, budgeting, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Government; Research articles 2006-06-22
New York Health Network Simplifies Budgeting with Lawson Software Implementation: Lawson Budgeting & Planning 9 enables Bassett Healthcare to improve budget accuracy, automate forecasting processes while cutting time spent budgeting by up to 25 percent; Tags: budgeting, Lawson Software Inc.; Research articles 2007-05-02
ALG Software Announces Ten New Clients in Government Sector: ALG Software, a global provider of corporate performance management solutions, today announced the signing of ten new clients within its fast-growing government practice. ALG solutions support government requirements for performance-based budgeting, activity-based costing, managerial cost accounting and performance management. The following agencies have joined the list of commercial...; Tags: budgeting, performance, SOFTWARE, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Research articles 2006-04-25
What do we talk about when we talk about performance? Dialogue theory and performance budgeting.(PART SYMPOSIUM): INTRODUCTION: THE RETURN OF PERFORMANCE BUDGETING The President's Management Agenda PMA of 2001 heralded the most recent effort to introduce performance budgeting to the federal government, based on the seemingly indisputable premise that "everyone agrees that scarce federal resources should be allocated to...; Tags: agency, ambiguity, budgeting, Government, Government Accountability Office, Lewis, performance, president, theory; Research articles 2006-04-01
Assessing performance budgeting at OMB: the influence of politics, performance, and program size.(Office of Management and Budget): INTRODUCTION Because government agencies do not normally seek to earn a profit, and often operate in environments in which earning a profit is either impossible or undesirable, obtaining objective information by which to evaluate the performance of programs and agencies is very difficult. ...; Tags: budgeting, Bush, cohort, Democratic Party, Government, Lewis, performance; Research articles 2006-04-01
Why PART? The institutional politics of presidential budget reform.(PART SYMPOSIUM): The George W. Bush administration's Program Assessment Rating Tool, or PART, is ambitious, carefully crafted, and if history is a guide, probably doomed. Since its initiation in 2002, PART's worksheets have guided Office of Management and Budget OMB and agency staff through assessments of the design...; Tags: administration, agency, analysis, budgeting, Bureau, C, Campbell, competence, Donald, General Accounting Office, government, Johnson, North, performance, president, Richard, Rose, staff, tax, Technology, theory, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2006-04-01