Australian farmers face between three and ten times the level of production risk faced by farmers in competing countries worldwide (OECD-FAO, 2011). Consequently, in Australia, identical management plans may result in sharply contrasting distributions of financial outcomes. These differences...

A 12-year experiment designed to show the benefits of applying lime to acid soils when growing annual pasture, perennial pasture, and annual crops in rotations with annual or perennial pastures, provides the context for comparing methods of economic analysis. In this study enterprise gross...

This study analyses the financial risk faced by representative mixed-enterprise farm businesses in four regions of south-eastern Australia. It uses discrete stochastic programming to optimise the ten-year cash flow margins produced by these farms, operating three alternative farming systems....

Setting up a new internal audit function is a challenging exercise, particularly in an organisation and an industry which is not familiar with the concepts involved. Auditors must be methodical in their approach but must avoid preconceived ideas. Independent television in the UK is in the midst...

Relatively little attention has been paid to the problem of premature adult mortality in developing countries, despite high levels of mortality in many countries - and despite the potentially severe social and economic consequences of adult deaths. Circulatory diseases and external causes appear...