The need for farmers to undertake effective management and accounting practices for their businesses is always present and is especially important in times of financial constraint. In general, farm accounting appears ...

The purpose of this paper is: 1. to discuss the methods of calculating interest rates that are commonly used in New Zealand; 2. to present case examples showing the difference between quoted and effective interest ...

Farm Ownership Savings Accounts are a popular method of saving for farm purchase and entry into sharefarming. As at 31 March 1981 there were nearly 7,000 account holders and deposits totalled approximately $29 million. The ...

Over a decade ago the Committee of Inquiry into Lending to Farmers (1972:19) reported that the evidence submitted to us indicated that there has been reasonable availability of loan finance for creditworthy borrowers. ...

Investment appraisal techniques such as the net present value and the internal rate of return methods are frequently used to assess the worthwhileness of a capital investment. A number of factors will influence the outcome ...

There has recently been some discussion on New Zealand Government involvement in funding of agricultural research (see, for example, National Business Review, 17/1/83). The arguments become more heated as economic ...

The following discussion of the agricultural credit market encompasses agriculture in its wider sense. Because most of the available information and data on agricultural credit is concerned with traditional forms of ...

In 1978 the Road Research Unit of the National Roads Board commissioned the Agricultural Economics Research Unit (AERU) to undertake studies related to trip and tonnage generation associated with various land uses in ...

This report aims to provide the New Zealand and more specifically the Christchurch eating out industry with a base set of information to plan and co-ordinate its marketing activity over the next decade. The report describes ...

On July 31, 1985, Farmlands Grain New Zealand Society Ltd engaged the Agricultural Economics Research Unit at Lincoln College to conduct an audit of the marketing and administrative performance of the Society for the ...