Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...

Learn about proportional consolidation, a former joint ventures accounting method replaced by the IFRS to streamline global financial reporting.

Reinsurance serves as insurance for insurance companies, in order to help protect them from losses. The parties to a reinsurance transaction choose between proportional and non-proportional ...

The performance of proportional valves falls in the wide spectrum between on/off solenoid valves and electrohydraulic servovalves. The valves are termed proportional because output flow is not exactly ...

A proportional solenoid valve is an electromagnetic valve designed to respond to a variable power input to regulate the flow of liquid and/or gas proportionately. It is used to control the flow rate ...

Would proportional representation be a better way of electing legislatures? This old idea, which dates back to John Stuart Mill and Nicolas de Condorcet, has been gaining ground among political ...

You likely pay a version of each on income or goods Reviewed by Lea D. Uradu Fact checked by Vikki Velasquez Tax systems in the U.S. fall into three categories ...

Your quad-copter is hovering nicely 100 feet north of you, its camera pointed exactly on target. The hover is doing so well all the RC transmitter controls are in the neutral position. The wind picks ...

An all-party committee has recommended that the federal government design a new electoral system and put it to the public in a national referendum. The new system would be a form of proportional ...

John Stanton has previously received funding from the EC1 New Deal for Communities regeneration programme (2007-2010). The country awoke the morning after the election – if indeed it had slept – to a ...