other relevant materials to justify your viewpoint. INTRODUCTION Accounting can be broadly defined as the ‘measurement and communication’ of economic information to the decision makers (Watts and Zimmerman 1986). Accounting is divided into internal and external accounting on the basis of the users of the information (Spohr 2005). Spohr (2005) further highlights that the responsibility for preparing the external accounting information and publishing it lies with the managers of the firm. These
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that business ethics are becoming more and more popular among business practitioners as the era of ‘Me-generation’, and its obsession with greed and profit at any cost draws to a close. Besides that, another notable issue addressed was the positive correlation between business ethics and corporate performance. She suggested that recent corporate failures resulted from a singularly motivated strategy of making profits. She also noted that the 1990’s avalanche of corporate collapse could be all
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always be dishonest (approximately 30 percent of the population). (Albrecht, 5 ed, pg 74.) The following documentation is intended for publicly reported companies who have to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as well as the accounting
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Murdoch Business School Working Papers Factors Affecting the GRI Disclosures in the Annual Reports of Australian State Government Departments Dr Maria Mucciarone Murdoch Business School Professor Greg Tower - Curtin University Professor Mike Garner - Salisbury University Working Paper No.3 February 2012 The views presented in this paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Murdoch Business School or Murdoch University. Working papers are considered draft
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who complete their education for driving not only facilitate those workers but also reduce compensation for companies, amount of price and number of accidents for drivers and rate of road accidents for society, all as a whole get facilitated by the positive externality of this discount insurance policy of government. • Tax break policy: A state policy to win a break in tax payment for manufacturers or factory and plant holders those install a pollution control unit also with their factory also gave
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Five functions of management (Fayol) Theories and methodsManagementby Vincent van Vliet - Jun 23, 2014 1981 At the beginning of the last century (1916) the French engineer Henri Fayol created the first principles of the classical management theory. Fayol is classified as the founding father of for example the line and staff organization. Based on his experience as a successful director or a mining company, he developed several theories that are still relevant today. At the time, managers had
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AUDITING: A JOURNAL OF PRACTICE & THEORY Vol. 24, No. 1 May 2005 pp. 21ñ35 Recent Changes in the Association between Bankruptcies and Prior Audit Opinions Marshall A. Geiger, K. Raghunandan, and Dasaratha V. Rama SUMMARY: The intense legislative and media scrutiny after a series of high-profile corporate failures, coupled with the paradigm shift in the regulation of the auditing profession brought forth by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, suggests that auditorsí decisions would be more conservative in
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Mekelle University College of Business and Economics Department of Accounting and Finance THE DETERMINANTS OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE Evidence from Commercial Banks in Ethiopia By K i b ro m M e h a ri F i s s e h a Reg.No.-CBE/PR0025/01 Research Project Submitted to the Department of Accounting and Finance, College of Business and Economics, Mekelle University, for the partial fulfillment of the degree of Master of Finance and Investment Under the Guidance of Aregawi Gebremichael
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the views of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission or its staff. Do Professional Traders Exhibit Loss Realization Aversion? Abstract Recent evidence (e.g. Odean, 1998a) describes investor behavior that is at odds with traditional economic theory. These alternative behaviors, such as those consistent with the disposition effect or overconfidence, form the basis for recent "behavioral" explanations for asset returns (e.g. Daniel, Hirshleifer and Subrahmanyam 1998a and 1998b, Odean 1998b, and
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