Reliability allocation methods play a pivotal role in engineering, serving as the means by which system-level reliability requirements are systematically distributed among individual subsystems and ...

From a reader who is a dear friend of mine: There are obvious many disparate approaches to asset allocation. Similar to the disparate approaches of any style of investing, each asset allocation ...

Learn how the assignment method allocates resources for maximum efficiency and profit. Discover practical examples in banking, manufacturing, and budgeting.

This paper introduces a novel approach for allocating a bank’s risk capital across individual portfolios and transactions. This allocation is pivotal for various capital applications, including ...

From clean toilets to working computers, your company incurs many costs that it cannot assign to one particular "cost object" -- a product, project, department or service. You must nonetheless cover ...

Activity-based costing is an improved method for allocating overhead costs. Instead of using one factor for cost allocation, this new method focuses on different aspects of the production process and ...

Metastatic breast cancer treated by chemotherapy: Trends in survival and costs in two patient cohorts treated in 1994–1998 and 2003–2006 No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is an ...