2014, 5, 26-31 Published Online February 2014 (http://www.scirp.org/journal/ti) http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ti.2014.51004 An Empirical Study on the Effects of Equity Incentive of the Listed Corporations in the SME Board of China —An Empirical Analysis Based on the View of Earnings Management Lixin Xu, Wenqin Cui School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China Email: cuiwenqin27@163.com Received October 29, 2013; revised November 29, 2013; accepted December
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1. Introduction In the developed countries Enron Xerox, WorldCom etc. had been caught of getting involved in accounting scandals since 2001, which leads to the credibility of corporate financial reports under suspicion, furthermore, shocking investors’ confidence. Consequently, corporate governance mechanism has been a crucial issue discussed again. Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted in 2002 to enhance corporate government mechanism which is viewed as the priority of financial revolution, in the expectation
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Journal Of Financial And Strategic Decisions Volume 8 Number 2 Summer 1995 EXPLANATION OF INDUSTRY RETURNS USING THE VARIABLE BETA MODEL AND LAGGED VARIABLE BETA MODEL Thomas M. Krueger* and Mohammad H. Rahbar* Abstract Beta is found to be a function of several leading economic indicators and government policy variables within the context of the Variable Beta Model which incorporates economic characteristics in the single index model in a multiplicative manner. When contemporaneous macroeconomic
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2014 Data Science Salary Survey Tools, Trends, What Pays (and What Doesn’t) for Data Professionals John King & Roger Magoulas Take the Data Science Salary and Tools Survey As data analysts and engineers—as professionals who like nothing better than petabytes of rich data—we find ourselves in a strange spot: We know very little about ourselves. But that’s changing. This salary and tools survey is the second in an annual series. To keep the insights flowing, we need one thing: People
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and profitability is assessed by the general manager, thus avoiding the problem of common respondent bias. The analysis of the influence of culture on business performance is extended by including a measure of entrepreneurial orientation in the study. The influence of a market orientation on business profitability is then compared with that of an entrepreneurial orientation. The regression coefficient for market orientation (.662) is higher in this replication than in the original study (.501), and
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problem with a suitable method. Solve the problem of Multicollinearity if so, by any one of the method which you thing suitable for your example? Answer: We have referred to the following data base1, in order to illustrate the multiple linear regression models. This database is the same as used for Assignment 2. X1 = annual net sales/$1000 X2 = number sq. ft./1000 X3 = inventory/$1000 X4 = amount spent on advertising/$1000 X5 = size of sales district/1000 families X6 = number of competing stores
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Ordering Errors. The objective is to determine what types of customers are creating the errors and present a solution to reduce the losses incurred due to the returned damaged products. 1. Qualitative analysis results indicate CSR orders are time consuming & less accurate. 2. Conduct quantitative analysis using independent variables to pinpoint errors. 3. Determine Cost & Profitability of Houston Division based on results. Current Revenue from Web Orders & CSR Orders Operation statistics have
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Business Statistics Received 96% Question 1 (20 Marks) A computer used by a 24-hour banking service is supposed to randomly assign each transaction to one of 5 memory locations. A check at the end of a day's transactions gave the counts shown in the table to each of the 5 memory locations, along with the number of reported errors. Memory location | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Number of transactions | 82 | 100 | 74 | 92 | 102 | Number of reported errors | 11 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 10 | At 5% level of
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when and if employees ask how much they are getting paid and why and the disadvantages are that the revenue Ton Miles can fluctuate over the course of a year and make it hard to base the decision of salaries on just one variable. 2.Use simple regression to estimate the salary cost function for Delta Airlines. Comment on the statistical validity and significance of your results. What are the advantages of this technique? What are the disadvantages? Is this technique an improvement from the High-Low
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Management Information Systems Introduction The objective of this assignment is to explore the coffee market in UK and understand the consumer preferences with aid of data resources and the outcome it would have on a new brand of Mysore coffee in the competitive UK coffee market. As the premium sectors develop in the UK, greater emphasis is placed on Arabica beans, with marketing and pack support centered on the provenance and taste credentials of specific beans. Arabica is fast becoming
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