Credit risk management
Thesis - 25 pages - Finance
The connect of life insurance has undergone several changes over the years and what has myriad array of attractive options apart from the basic of life cover. Life insurance schemes also offer tax benefits. In today's scenario life insurance solves the three objectives....
Launching of the wines of the Center-Loire in China: analysis and potential of development
Market study - 121 pages - Services marketing
In order to provide a detailed answer to our question, we conducted this study in three distinct phases. During these three phases, we have always tried to keep in mind the characteristics of BIVC and its members in order to maintain greater consistency in all our analysis and answers. We first...
Draft bill to the House of Parliament
Thesis - 5 pages - European law
The characterisation of a compulsory insurance no fault scheme is rooted in the principle of distributive justice, compensating victims without having to establish causation and fault. Conversely, the current liability for negligence claims for sports injuries involves fault considerations...
The failure of America's health care system
Thesis - 16 pages - Political science
America's health care system is in trouble. More money is spent on health care in the U.S. than any other country in the world. Our terminally privatized and competitive health system is the most expensive, yielding some of the poorest results. Health care spending is spiraling out of control,...
EEV (European Embedded Value) and MCEV (Market Consistent Embedded Value)
Essay - 11 pages - Business strategy
In May 2004 the CFO forum published European Embedded Value Principles. The “CFO Forum” is a high-level discussion group composed and attended by the Chief Financial Officers of 19 leading European insurers. These principles are intended to increase the quality, comparability and...
Mutual funds and other investment opportunities: Franklin Templeton Investments
Case study - 38 pages - Finance
Savings form an important part of the economy of any nation. With the savings invested in various options available to the people, money acts as the driver for growth of the country. Indian financial scene too presents a plethora of avenues to the investors. Though certainly not the best or...
Fair Value Implications for the Asset Mix of a Pension Fund
Essay - 86 pages - Finance
Pension funds serve to collect and manage an amount of capital, sufficient to make all payments to which participants of the fund are entitled based on the pension plan. The Akzo Nobel Pension Fund (APF) is responsible for the provision of pensions for all employees of Akzo Nobel in the...
Medical errors in the United States: Who pays?
Thesis - 9 pages - Medical studies
The end of the year 2002 was marked by a wind of revolt among French doctors. At the root of their dissatisfaction, a lack of manpower made it even more difficult by the holiday season approaches the one hand and the expiration of their contracts of insurance at December 31 on the other....
Dutch health care system
Thesis - 4 pages - Social sciences
Universal Health Care refers to access to affordable and high-quality health care to everyone who needs it. This system of health care is commonly known as a single payer system. The Dutch system provides “The dose of efficiency and equity that the current health care system in USA, so...
Health care: A political issue
Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences
What to do about healthcare in our nation is a much debated topic in current politics. Questions arise concerning the availability, cost, and quality of healthcare for American citizens. In recent years, citizens have seen the cost of health services skyrocket. Healthcare insurance offered...
AXA Group - An Analysis on the 9th largest financial provider in the world, its acquisitions and Global Operations
Market study - 7 pages - Business strategy
"The Global Financial provider provides financial services throughout the world. It deals in various forms of insurance like life, health, etc. It also provides investment management solutions. Strictly speaking, the company operates in five departments. They are Life & Savings, Property &...
Overview of supply chain of the AXA group
Thesis - 6 pages - Logistics
The operating system business is an increasingly complex phenomenon. There are different channels and processes within the same company and the operating system businesses in some companies are more complex than others. The production chain of the production process of a product is an integral...
Organizational culture of the new Air France - KLM group
Case study - 36 pages - Management
The terms "intercultural", "globalization", "internationalization" are increasingly gaining relevance in the current business scenario. Today, with the internationalization of firms in the context of the formation of the European market and the globalization of economies, it is interesting to...
The healthcare system in the US
Essay - 4 pages - Social sciences
The system of health insurance emerged gradually in the States at the beginning of the twentieth century and significantly spread all over by the nation by the middle of the twentieth century. The beneficial effects of such systems are undeniable, they allow access to care and 'equity...
Social Security in Algeria
Course material - 9 pages - Social sciences
On the eve of colonization of Algeria by France, the concepts of public health and social security barely existed. The colonial regime of the time introduced Social Security in Algeria to organize the medical benefits of military settlers and for the Algerian Workers' Algerians service. "...
Health systems
Course material - 3 pages - Social security law
Security is a package of four government insurance programs which provide Americans with minimum coverage. They include retirement pensions (to which all Americans over 65 are entitled), benefits for disabled, unemployment insurance and Medicare, a program which covers the medical...
ZZZ Best Company, Inc. fraud
Essay - 7 pages - Management
Barry Minkow precociously committed fraud at the age of 16 by forging credit card signatures. As an adult he was resolute in defrauding investors of ZZZ Best Company, Inc. through inventive hoaxes involving insurance restoration projects. ZZZ Best Company, Inc. was essentially in the...
Task-technology fit and adoption behaviors of mobile business systems
Essay - 8 pages - Computer science
In this paper, a combined task-technology fit (TTF) and UTAUT model is proposed to explore the adoption of mobile technologies in the real estate and insurance industry. The research results indicate: (1) five constructs: data quality, authorization, timeliness, reliability, and...
Nobel economics and information asymmetries health
Thesis - 9 pages - Medical studies
Americans Akerloff George A, A Michael Spence and Joseph E Stiglitz jointly received the Nobel Prize in economics October 11 last. The Royal Swedish Academy wanted to reward work "on markets with asymmetric information", which allow to consider how some agents have more information than others...
The Right Medicine: Same-sex Family Law
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Other law subjects
Currently in the United States, same-sex couples face many discrepancies in the law compared to heterosexual married couples, many related to taxation, discrimination protection, and other benefits. Of particular importance are the barriers that same-sex couples and larger families face when...
The Universal Healthcare debate in America
Essay - 4 pages - Government finance
According to the National Coalition on Healthcare, nearly 47 million Americans go without health insurance (NCHC 2008). That means that sixteen percent of the American population cannot afford to get treated when they are sick, injured, or possibly dying. Within that number, seventy...
Barriers to adolescent chemical dependency treatment
Essay - 8 pages - Social sciences
Individuals who do not have private insurance are at a significant disadvantage when trying to access social services. It has been estimated that Washington State serves less than 30% of adolescent residents needing substance abuse services. To date no statewide surveys have been...
Five strategy innovations to redefine the debate surrounding baseline national health coverage in the United States
Thesis - 10 pages - Social sciences
Healthcare is the single most pressing domestic issue in American politics. Over 45 million Americans are uninsured; likely twice that are underinsured. 80% of the uninsured are workers, or live in families with workers. Extensive work has documented the market failure related to health...
What are the impacts of advanced supplier quality assurance implementation on automotive lighting overall business performance?
Case study - 28 pages - Business strategy
Innovative company of automotive lighting industry, automotive lighting (AL), daily develops strategies which play a leading role in insuring its competitiveness. For this reason, AL's purchasing division targets to reach Purchasing Excellence. To assure this target, AL's purchasing...
Automobile contracts as the fulcrum of the automobile industry
Thesis - 4 pages - Business law
This paper argues that automobile contracting is one of the most important tenets of the automobile industry as supported by the various articles on the import of contracting in the global business arena by Michael P. Vandenbergh. There are however specific areas of interest to all the parties...
The good, the bad, and the ugly: Health care comparisons of three nations
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
Out of the three nations I chose to examine, Europe proved to have the best and most cost effective health care overall. While studying Europe, I mostly analyzed the UK's system, though I can say that most - if not, all - of the health care in other countries throughout Western Europe are...
Decision algorithms and measuring instruments
Thesis - 14 pages - Mathematics
The medical repositories often take the form of algorithms that assist the medical decision. Gradually worked out a true algorithmic approach, one of the most spectacular examples is in psychiatry. Since the 1950s, the American Psychiatric Association has indeed undertaken the task of creating an...
Account for the failure of Clinton's health care reforms
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
In the United States in the early 1990s, both public opinion and political actors agreed that healthcare system did not work properly anymore. The American system is based on employment, i.e. those who work can benefit from a healthcare insurance, but unemployed people and half-time...
Why did Clinton Health Security Act of 1993 failed despite the opportunity to reform?
Thesis - 6 pages - Political science
Reforming the US health care system was one of the top priorities of the presidential battle in 1992 and William Jefferson Clinton managed to appear as the most competent candidate to deliver a comprehensive plan to solve this problem. Since the late 1970's, the country was facing problems...
Data mining in financial crime detection
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
In this paper, we have discussed different financial crimes that are seen today i.e credit card fraud, card not present fraud, Loan default, Bank Fraud, Money Laundering, Insurance crime etc. Then we have discussed how data mining becomes helpful for detection of these types of financial...
