Taiwan’s insurance companies are exploring the possibility of easing accounting rules to reduce their surging foreign-exchange hedging costs. Taiwan’s life insurance association has requested its ...

The White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) Board last week announced one final rule and one proposed rule that would eliminate more than 60 requirements ...

Researchers in the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory have built the Ultra-Low Inductance Smart (ULIS) power module, a compact, low-cost design that delivers record energy density and ultrafast ...

The White House Office of Management and Budget's Cost Accounting Standards Board is proposing to eliminate dozens of accounting requirements for federal contractors that it considers "unnecessary and ...

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Global energy demands are surging, pushed by energy-intensive data centers powering artificial intelligence and increased manufacturing. How will the world meet these rising energy needs? One answer ...

This article analyses how cost accounting techniques empower internal audit to evolve from a compliance-centric function to a strategic value-adding partner. It explains core cost accounting ...

Abstract: With the emergence of many low-cost development platforms, designing an embedded system has become more flexible using different microcontroller platforms. However, it is necessary to ...

To determine the value of ending inventory and, ultimately, margins, many retailers have stuck with an accounting practice known as the retail inventory method — in some cases for more than 100 years ...

Ax-4's liftoff had already been delayed by a propellant leak in its Falcon 9 rocket. The SpaceX launch of four private astronauts has been delayed again. The Ax-4 mission to the International Space ...

Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) has developed new high-efficiency, low-cost, micro concentrator photovoltaics (micro-CPV) technology for applications in ...

‘We’re seeing that manufacturers have tried to remove materials, remove costs from those modules, to cut their losses, and that presents reliability risks,’ says Tristan Erion-Lorico. Image: Kiwa PVEL ...