The idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is not something new for the corporate world. However, in the recent past, there has been a shift as far as understanding and implementation of CSR is concerned. CSR rather than being a philanthropic activity has started being looked at by the...

Communication is increasingly at the center of human activity and crucial to the success of individual professionals and their organizations. Moreover, communication in various organizations (companies, schools, etc.) encompasses all the means, both formal and informal, by which information is...

Housing finance is a high flying sector these days and is expected to grow at phenomenal growth rate (expected 36%). The banks and financial institutions have brought changes to their strategies as there is shift from buyers market to sellers market. Liberal tax rates by the Govt., low and...

Housing Finance is a specialized form of finance and efficiency of housing finance system in a country is one of the basic indicators of the growth of its economy. Hence understanding the efficiency and effectiveness of housing finance system is very much essential and relevant. This paper...

The Growth in Housing and housing finance activities in recent years reflects the buoyant state of the housing finance market in the country. The financing institutions have come to see good value in funding this component of the economy. With a growing number of players, the housing sector is...

This paper attempts to identify structural breaks and estimate volatilities of logarithmic returns of Indian Rupee (INR) and Singapore Dollar (SGD) measured with respect to USD, controlling for simultaneous temporal dependencies among various alternative asset classes. Combining a methodology to...

In the times when the whole world is being converted into a global world and organizations are trying new innovative things to survive. One area of innovation is costing systems. Last few years have seen a shift from traditional cost accounting to cost management. However, the Small and Medium...