Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Article history: Received 20 November 2009 Received in revised form 14 June 2010 Accepted 3 November 2010 Available online 12 November 2010 Keywords: Data mining Financial fraud detection Feature selection t-statistic Neural networks SVM GP 1. Introduction Financial fraud is a serious problem worldwide and more so in fast growing countries like China. Traditionally, auditors are responsible for detecting financial statement fraud. With the appearance of an increasing
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Trends and Calendar effects in Malaysia Stock Market Mahmoud Khalid Almsafir Nur Hanis Hazwani Binti Husni Ayman Abdalmajeed Ahmad Al-smadi Graduate Business School, College Of Graduate Studies, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Jalan IKRAM-UNITEN, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia. mahmoud@uniten.edu.my, hanis.husni@gmail.com, smadi370@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Investing can help a person's wealth to generate more, and investing in stock is proven as one of the most profitable forms of available investment
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|By: |BABAK SHARIF | | | | |TERM PROJECT: |THE SILICON VALLEY INSTITUTE CASE | | |
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Journal of Operations Management 27 (2009) 310–323 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Operations Management journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jom The efficient use of enterprise information for strategic advantage: A data envelopment analysis Elliot Bendoly a,1,2, Eve D. Rosenzweig a,1,*, Jeff K. Stratman b,1,3 a b Goizueta Business School, Emory University, 1300 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322-2710, United States David Eccles School of Business, University
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extent of its use go up to about three-fourths of an active human being’s life, and even higher proportions of a typical manager’s time. It is natural that many of our managers fail to communicate effectively with their employees. If history and statistics of the problems and conflicts of our industries are analyzed, it will possibly be seen that about 50% of the same are caused due to communication failures. Communication gaps produces frustration, grievances, agitation, non-cooperation, strike,
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Dell Inc. is an American multinational technology company based in Texas. Dell managed to enter Singapore market through foreign direct investment and relied on the sales of laptops, printers, and many more. In Singapore PC and laptop are used to assist daily activities supported with abundant Internet access, this makes Singapore a good market for computer and peripheral industry. There are a total of 6 parts in this report. In the beginning of this report, a brief history
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by means of helping the employees achieve their optimum performance level and still be happy about their job (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Inc. [SIOP], 2014). Psychologists work in the human resources department, in the managerial department, in the administration, and more. It is use to develop and utilize an employee’s ability to perform even better at his job. Psychology is used to ensure harmony amongst the people in the organization. It is also concerned with trainings
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21 Evaluation of Mintzberg's role approach Mintzberg acknowledged that his categorisation of the ten roles was somewhat an arbitrary division of the manager's activities. It presented only one of the many possible ways of classifying the managerial roles. In practice, the ten roles are not isolated but they form an integrated whole. The effectiveness of the manager's performance is affected if any of the roles is removed. A number of studies support Mintzberg's view that this set of ten
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SimProjectTM Player’s Manual SIMPROJECT™ A Project Management Simulation for Classroom Instruction PLAYER’S MANUAL V 1.2 JEFFREY K. PINTO, PH.D. AND DIANE H. PARENTE, PH.D. Player’s Manual for use with SIMPROJECT™ Jeffrey K. Pinto, PH.D. Diane H. Parente, PH.D. Published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin, an imprint of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright © 2004 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication
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UNDERGRADUATE REGULATIONS & SYLLABUSES 2014 - 2015 THE FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES TABLE OF CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN ............................................................. 3 UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES ................................................ 4 ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2014-2015 ................................................ 5 DEFINITIONS ...................................................................................... 13 GENERAL INFORMATION & REGULATIONS ......................
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