Corporations, as well as nonprofit organizations, use cost centers to keep track of expenses. A cost center is a unit within a larger system that is responsible for a particular set of activities that ...

Exchange-traded funds have become the investment wrapper of choice for a growing number of investors ranging from institutions to individuals. Transparency ...

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Marginal cost refers to the change in total cost arising from the production of one additional unit. For example, in a manufacturing firm, the marginal cost will give a measure of the change in total ...

Multiple output variable and total neoclassical cost functions are estimated on a panel data set for Canadian transcontinental and regional air carriers. The results are used to assess the effects of ...

We consider sealed- and open-bid total-cost procurement auctions where two attributes are used for contract award decisions: price, which is bid by the supplier, and a fixed cost adjustment, which is ...

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