empirical research has evaluated the impact of IT on public accounting firms. This study focuses on five offices of an international public accounting firm that recently made large IT investments, primarily in audit software and knowledge-sharing applications. Both qualitative and quantitative information from the research site are analyzed to estimate the change in productivity following the implementation of IT. The results from both regression analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) indicate
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com/loi/wtnm20 Diversification, Strategy, and Stability of Lebanese Banks: A Non-Parametric DEA Approach Rock-Antoine Mehanna & Youssef Yazbeck a b a b Sagesse University, Furn el Shebak, Lebanon Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon Published online: 14 Jun 2012. To cite this article: Rock-Antoine Mehanna & Youssef Yazbeck (2012) Diversification, Strategy, and Stability of Lebanese Banks: A Non-Parametric DEA Approach, Journal of Transnational Management, 17:2, 155-166, DOI: 10.1080/15475778
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www.ccsenet.org/ijbm International Journal of Business and Management Vol. 6, No. 7; July 2011 Financial Reform, Ownership and Performance in Banking Industry: The Case of Bangladesh S. M. Sohrab Uddin PhD Student, Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan & Assistant Professor, Department of Finance and Banking, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh E-mail: smsohrabcu@yahoo.com Yasushi Suzuki Professor, Graduate School of Management Ritsumeikan Asia
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DEA Tutorial Abstract Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a linear programming based technique for measuring the relative performance of organisational units where the presence of multiple inputs and outputs makes comparisons difficult. This tutorial paper introduces the technique and uses an example to show how relative efficiencies can be determined and targets for inefficient units set. The paper also considers a number of practical issues of concern in applying the technique. Introduction
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empirical research has evaluated the impact of IT on public accounting firms. This study focuses on five offices of an international public accounting firm that recently made large IT investments, primarily in audit software and knowledge-sharing applications. Both qualitative and quantitative information from the research site are analyzed to estimate the change in productivity following the implementation of IT. The results from both regression analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) indicate
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ackling Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in the M edicare and Medicaid Programs: R esponse to the May 2 Open Letter to the Healthcare Community Dan Olson, CFE June 2012 Tackling Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid Programs White Paper C ontents I. Introduction ............................................................................................................ 1 II. Recommendations......................................................................................
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INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPING ECONOMIES IDE Discussion Papers are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussions and critical comments IDE DISCUSSION PAPER No. 256 Performance of Financial Institutions in Bhutan Dil Bahadur Rahut* Iván Velásquez Castellanos** Pravakar Sahoo*** Abstract The Kingdom of Bhutan is a small landlocked country in South Asia, located in the eastern Himalayas, and bordered by India and China. Bhutan is a small and fragile economy with a population of about
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Munich Personal RePEc Archive Measurement of Efficiency of Banks in India Varadi, Vijay Kumar, Mavaluri, Pradeep Kumar and Boppana, Nagarjuna University of Hyderabad, India August 2006 Online at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17350/ MPRA Paper No. 17350, posted 17. September 2009 / 09:11 Measurement of Efficiency of Banks in India 1 - Varadi Vijay Kumar , - Mavaluri Pradeep2 - Boppana Nagarjuna 3 Introduction: The opening up of the financial sector in 1990 followed by
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Ramona Jimborean‡ First Draft: September 2008 This Version: April 2009 Abstract The paper addresses the issue of French banks efficiency, compared to their homologous from Europe and the United States. The analysis is realized on a sample formed by the ten biggest banks from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, over the period 1994-2006. The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method is employed. The results show an improvement in cost-efficiency of French and Spanish
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INFORMS Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Multiattribute Utility Theory: Recent Accomplishments and What Lies Ahead Author(s): Jyrki Wallenius, Peter C. Fishburn, Stanley Zionts, James S. Dyer, Ralph E. Steuer and Kalyanmoy Deb Source: Management Science, Vol. 54, No. 7 (Jul., 2008), pp. 1336-1349 Published by: INFORMS Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20122479 Accessed: 15-10-2015 13:28 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use
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