© 1998 American Accounting Association Accounting Horizons Vol. 12 No. 4 December 1998 pp. 363–373 Financial Information and Quality Management—Is There a Role for Accountants? Leif M. Sjoblom Leif M. Sjoblom is a Professor at the International Institute for Management Development. SYNOPSIS: Different opinions exist with respect to the usefulness of financial information for operational decision making. While academics encourage the provision of accounting information on quality, few companies
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development concept mostly at a community level and has being playing a major role in eradicating poverty particularly in the rural India today. I have searched research paper published in twenty-first century and reviewed them to find out research gap in this field. The literature is reviewed briefly as under: Research papers on self help group’s attempts to explain the process of women’s empowerment and find out its effectiveness in their lives. I feel that women empowerment is a much broader
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quality improvement focuses on promoting the best possible outcomes for patients. Historically, quality was determined by individual providers and lacked standardization. “How care is provided should reflect appropriate use of the most current knowledge about scientific, clinical, technical, interpersonal, manual, cognitive, and organization and management elements of health care” (Ransom, Joshi, Nash, & Ransom, 2008, p. 3). This paper will discuss the foundational frameworks of quality improvement
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Marking-to-Market: Panacea or Pandora’s Box? Guillaume Plantin London Business School Haresh Sapra University of Chicago GSB Hyun Song Shin Princeton University August 13, 2007 Abstract Financial institutions have been at the forefront of the debate on the controversial shift in international standards from historical cost accounting to mark-to-market accounting. We show that the trade—o s at stake in this debate are far from one-sided. While the historical cost regime leads to some
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Scorecard Robert S. Kaplan Working Paper 10-074 Copyright © 2010 by Robert S. Kaplan Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and discussion only. It may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder. Copies of working papers are available from the author. Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard1 Robert S. Kaplan Harvard Business School, Harvard University 1 Paper originally prepared for C. Chapman, A.
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Berkshire Hathaway and GEICO Insurance © 2001 Tim Glowa White Paper: Examining Berkshire Hathaway’s 1995 Purchase of GEICO Insurance Tim Glowa Tim@Glowa.ca September 12, 2001 © 2001 Tim Glowa September 12, 2001 -1- Berkshire Hathaway and GEICO Insurance Table of contents © 2001 Tim Glowa Executive Summary.................................................................................................... 3 Introduction...................................................
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Leadership in an organisation 1.1 Research Background The highly competitive market economies have continuously forced majority of organisations around the globe to find various strategies on improving themselves in terms of operations and performance. This is not only vital for meeting their organisational objectives, but also for sustenance (Zheir et al, 2012). Previous researches and studies claim that leadership is the key factor for an organisation or business to survive, operate and
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Overview and Major Findings: This paper examines the problem of pricing a European call on an asset (Stock) that has a stochastic or variable volatility. Addressing this problem was done by investigating two cases: the first case is to determine the option price when the stochastic volatility is independent of stock price. The second case is to determine the option price when the stochastic volatility is correlated with the stock price. This paper provides a solution in series form for the stochastic
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Chapter 1 Research Background Real estate is a long-lived, heterogeneous, and unique asset involves the cross-disciplinary fields (Boon, 2005). According to the Tharatchai (2009), real estate is one of the significant asset that significantly contribute to the national economy, involving machinery, building, acquisition of various property rights and others. By the way, the related term of real estate for this research is about the building, which is classified into two categories such as commercial
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Accounting Horizons Vol. 24, No. 3 2010 pp. 355–394 American Accounting Association DOI: 10.2308/acch.2010.24.3.355 Global Accounting Convergence and the Potential Adoption of IFRS by the U.S. (Part I): Conceptual Underpinnings and Economic Analysis Luzi Hail, Christian Leuz, and Peter Wysocki SYNOPSIS: This article is Part I of a two-part series analyzing the economic and policy factors related to the potential adoption of IFRS by the United States. In this part, we develop the conceptual framework
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