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 ...

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 ...

Ali Hussain has a background that consists of a career in finance with large financial institutions and in journalism covering business. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, ...

Federal regulations require that similar costs be treated consistently as either direct costs or indirect costs, in like circumstances. This regulation imposes a requirement on the University to ...

Risk parity is a portfolio allocation strategy that uses risk to determine allocations across various components of an investment portfolio. This method stems from modern portfolio theory (MPT) but ...