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A customer should be a purchasing decision unit. Creating a customer hierarchy is a technical issue, usually resolved by building a Customer Information File (CIF) which cross references customers however defined - to accounts and transactions. Many companies use Householding algorithms to achieve a similar matching of customers to business activity. Starting out on the road to measurement does not necessarily mean that the bank must have a huge budget and all of the information that would be required to produce a financial statement on a customer basis. Depending on the degree of complexity inherent in the business a relatively simple system might provide the bank with all the value it might get from implementing a far more sophisticated and complex system. If ...
... treatment of revenue is as good an approximation of the business as is possible - even if it differrs from your Finance policies. Remember that you are creating a management infor...
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Loss reserves are the estimated cost of settling unpaid claim liabilities. Under generally accepted accounting principles and statutory accounting principles, changes in reserve estimates are recognized in the year they occur not the year policies were issued. An objective process exists that can estimate the variability inherent in loss reserves. Although there is no perfect process that will satisfy both NAIC and SEC requirements as well as stock analysts' requirements, the authors describe a process that establishes a benchmark loss reserve in those situations where the company has sufficient history to apply loss development methods. The process described in this article solves the problem of calculating so many loss development factors by using an approximation algorithm to produce...
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... economic gain annually accruing upon the policies which was ultimately realized by the taxpayer, and... at 4 per cent., arrived at a rough approximation of their accrued value on that date. This method, ...
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... describing four fundamental classes of policies for working with diverse stochastic optimization p...-ahead policies, policy function approximations, and policies based on value function approximatio...
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[...] this Note will argue that the courts of appeals' success in convincing the agency to reform and in protecting process rights in the meantime provides an example of what the EOIR' s relationship with the courts of appeals ought to look like, and that the dialogue between the courts and the agency should be ongoing. [...] the expansion of the BIA should give every BIA member more time with each case before her.
... Review (EOIR) to make changes to its policies and to create some approximation of due process fo...
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... important implications for the design of policies because different government levels may (i) have d... relevant because it may be a good approximation of the decision structure within EU, there are onl...
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The Worldwide Boom Of Competition Law And Its Harmonization II. Is Extraterritorial Application Sufficient? III. Enforcement Deficits IV. The Competition Of Competition Legislation V. The Feasibility Of Harmonization VI The Goals Of Harmonization VII A Pragmatic Approach
...While the practical need for an approximation of antitrust laws and procedures should not be in ... institutional competition of antitrust policies. This competition is said to test different polici...
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Competence management is seen as one of the most important sources for comparative strategic advantages. Especially in transformation economies like the Czech Republic, human resources have to be regarded as a key factor for current and future success of the economy. Therefore this article focuses on the external and internal drivers of change, influencing competence management and development in this country. The analysis shows that management competences are still in a building phase. Roughly 20 years after the great reforms, competence management shows first trends to increase market- and employee-orientation.
...A first approximation of the perceived change can be found in the analys... positive, price pressure and corporate policies determined abroad are all clear potential threats....
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Should service capacities (such as agent groups in call centers) be pooled or not? This paper will show that there is no single answer. For the simple but generic situation of two (strictly pooled or unpooled) server groups, it will provide (1) insights and approximate formulae, (2) numerical support, and (3) general conclusions for the waiting-time effect of pooling. For a single call type, this effect is clearly positive, as represented by a pooling factor. With multiple job types, however, the effect is determined by both a pooling and a mix factor. Due to the mix factor, this effect might even be negative. In this case, it is also numerically illustrated that an improvement of both the unpooled and the strictly pooled scenario can be achieved by simple overflow or threshold scenario...
...- Khintchine's (PK)-formula as an approximation and a (so-called) pooling factorfordoubling two st... scenarios, such as threshold policies with overflow and prioritization by call type, may...
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According to the estimates from the additive Törnqvist price index formula, Taiwan consumers' true cost of living grew by 29.93% with an average yearly growth rate of 1.76% during the 1991-2006 period. Nearly 85% of the total growth of cost of living derived mainly from seven commodity groups. In particular, supplementary food had made the largest contribution to the growth of cost of living over the period was because its price had increased by as high as 53.42%, and Taiwan consumers had spent around one-tenth of their total income on it. Compared with the estimates from Törnqvist price index, the Laspeyres price index had overestimated the growth of Taiwan consumers' cost of living in yearly average by 0.1 percentage points (ppts) over the sample period; the resulting substitution bia...
... because many economic and social welfare policies already include escalator clauses related to cost ... capable of providing a second-order approximation to an arbitrary twice differential (unit) expendit...