This paper analyzes the pattern of periodic reinvestments in depreciable assets when the amount of reinvestment in each period is set equal to the amount of depreciation for the period and derives a constant to which the periodic investments converge. The expression for the constant which...

Conventional accounting measures wealth W (assets and liabilities) and accounts for its net change, W(t + 1) - W(t), by means of income \Delta W(t), classified into various revenue and expense items. Proposed "momentum accounting" measures income momentum W\dot = dW/dt (time rate at which income...

A study is made of a dynamic inventory model with stochastic lead times. A probability model is developed for the arrival of outstanding orders in which it is assumed that orders do not cross in time and that the arrival probabilities are independent of the number and size of outstanding orders....

Average variable costs are not directly defined for multiple products produced in complex production settings. An activity analysis model can be used for basic cost measurement and for building a linear programming model of manufacturing operations. The model can then be used not only to compute...

This paper is concerned with characterizing decision rules for the sequential E-model of chance-constrained programming. A key feature of our characterization will be a detailed discussion of various interpretations of the probability operator in the chance constraints. Specifically we define...

Growth period models, previously treated in the literature, have assumed that the pattern of value increase of the growth asset is deterministic. In this paper, this assumption is relaxed by considering models in which the increase in value of an asset in a period is a random variable whose...