Into the Unknown
In the last post, we looked at two major non-taxable exchanges: like-kind exchanges and involuntary conversions. In those transactions, any realized gain or loss is generally not recognized at the time of the transaction. Instead, realized gain or loss is deferred until some future point, usually when newly acquired property is ultimately disposed off. This…
There are several ways of interconnecting networks, at different layers, there are different types of devices: Layers Devices If LANs are interconnected Application Application gateway Transport Transport gateways Network Router Inter-routingAll traffic stays in its own LAN Data Link Bridge or switch MAC address filteringLocal traffic stays in its own LAN Physical Repeater or hubHub…
Previously, we mentioned that an sensitivity analysis tool called Shadow Price is helpful to evaluate the impact of change when right hand side value of a constraint is increased by 1. However in some cases, there might be new variables or new constraints added, the good news is you don’t have to solve the problem…
Overview of Gains and Losses At a very high level, it’s important to be able to calculate the gain or loss upon selling or exchanging an asset. Because, of course, gains are taxable and losses are deductible. That is, these kinds of property transactions will affect a business owners tax liability. In general, how do…
Funding liquidity is the ability to raise money. Market liquidity, on the other side, is the ability to quickly buy or sell assets in volume without moving prices. Some assets are more liquid than others. A liquid market is a market with a continuous price, which might be fluctuating but there’s no hops. Where does…
When you are given a linear program, in many cases we call it a primal linear program. It is usually going to be able to find another program, called a dual linear program. The primary reason why we want to use duality is that the computation time of the simplex method is roughly proportional to…
When it comes to Operations Research, we are mainly talking about optimization problems, so the theories are mainly optimality conditions. They basically mean for an optimization problem, somehow there should be an optimal solution. We want to get the conditions which will make the optimal solution satisfy. Typically we search for the necessary conditions, while…
Typically we have some question, and that question could be “could the value of the parameter be X?” We could have some idea of what it could be but we’re not sure if that’s correct or not. Then, with that question we use data to try and support that claim or maybe go against that…
We use data to do statistical inference means we either estimate some parameters with confidence, or test some theories or hypothesis about those parameters. Significance Level Consider an example, suppose we have 2 hypothesis: the Null and the Alternative. Also we have come up with a decision rule: after taking an observation of one sample…
Cost Recovery What is cost recovery? For accounting purposes, businesses must capitalize the cost of assets, if the asset’s useful life is more than one year. Capitalization means that the cost of the asset purchase must show up on the balance sheet rather than as an expense on the income statement. What happens later is…
App SEO App SEO refers to the practice of optimizing your website to drive traffic to your app. It allows you to The high commission fees make generating organic sign-ups to your website even more critical. This can end up saving a company a lot of money in fees paid to the app stores over…
Repo Market Repo (someone calls it RP) is an overnight collateralized loan, organized as a simultaneous sale and repurchase of a security. The person A, who borrowing money, is selling a security (say, treasure bill) to somebody B today and promising to buy it back tomorrow. Repo is collateralized in a sense on both sides:…
Azure Identity Services With people increasingly able to work from anywhere, plus the rise of “bring your own device” strategies, mobile applications and cloud applications. Many of those access points are now outside the company’s physical networks. Identity has become the new primary security boundary. Accurately proving that someone is a valid user of your…
Applying Keyword Research Effective use of keywords is one of the most powerful tools at your disposal for increasing traffic to your website. Identifying the best keywords for your website involves a great deal of careful research and analysis. It’s important to be able to properly estimate competitiveness of a potential keyword. While we ended…
Recall the hierarchy of money, the Fed is sort of at the top, it can create this high powered money called reserves. From the point of view of the banks, reserves are money. Fed funds are NOT either the liability or the asset of the Fed, they’re the asset and the liability of banks. Federal…