ARTICLE IN PRESS Journal of Accounting and Economics 50 (2010) 2–19 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Accounting and Economics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jae Accrual-based and real earnings management activities around seasoned equity offerings Daniel A. Cohen 1, Paul Zarowin à New York University, Stern School of Business, NY 10012-1118, USA a r t i c l e i n f o abstract Article history: Received 15 January 2008 Received in revised form
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Organisations on Green Marketing. Mieke van Kaam a research proposal – 22 April 2012 Table of Contents 1. Background 3 2. Problem statement 3 3. Research objectives 4 4. The scope and limitations of the proposed research 4 5. Literature review 6 5.1. Green fever –A load of Greenwash or not. 6 5.2. How green can you go? 7 5.3. Lets collaborate! 7 5.4. Consumer evolution 8 6. Research plan 9 6.1. Description of research subjects and design 9 6.2. Sampling plan 9
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Consumers nowadays are becoming more conscious of good health and proper nutrition. They are not only aware of the kind of food they eat but they are also interested to learn about healthier and nutritious diets to help them cope with their lifestyle at the same time, chronic degenerative diseases or “lifestyle diseases” are increasing twenty one out of 100 adults are hypertensive and 4 out every 100 diabetic (FNRI, 2008). Micronutrient deficiencies are still prevalent
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consumers and product parameters. INTRODUCTION: Brand loyalty is one of the major parts of successful business organization and firms. Loyalty is the customer’s trust on brand, in other words we can say it as trustworthiness and customer’s satisfaction related to the
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instead of buying branded clothes; people tend to buy more affordable clothes. People also tend to lessen the electricity and water consumption. Another way is using charcoals instead of Liquefied Petroleum Gas or LPG in preparing or cooking their food. Almost all of us are aware of Global warming. It is the unusual increase in the Earth's surface temperature since describe the beginning of the 20th century. Scientists believe that this is caused by some human activities like illegal logging, deforestation
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European Journal of Operational Research 163 (2005) 784–801 www.elsevier.com/locate/dsw Production, Manufacturing and Logistics Factors which influence decision making in new product evaluation q Muammer Ozer * Department of Management, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong Received 16 October 2001; accepted 7 November 2003 Available online 31 December 2003 Abstract New product development is indeed very important for companies. However, developing new products
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listed non-financials in Japan. Rather than computing point estimates from aggregate data, we employ non-linear cross-sectional regression analysis of individual-firm data and we control for industry and size factors in returns. We find that firms have added value—and significantly so—regardless of industry, size, and governance system. In terms of cost of capital, we find no evidence of a keiretsu advantage. In fact, within the segment of medium- and small-sized firms the keiretsu ones often
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INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction Microfinance industry is now affected by strong competition : “ commercial banks have begun to target MFIs’ traditional customers , new MFIs have continued to be created in microfinance industry, the microfinance clientele is becoming more sophisticated concerning the quality of service they require or expect”( Daubert 2002) . These factors may negatively affect the MFIs. In fact, the microfinance industry is losing customers because of both the aggressive
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|Ethics Case Studies—Learning Application of the 2009 ADA/CDR Code of |[pic] | |Ethics for the Profession of Dietetics | | |Case Study #1: A registered dietitian (RD) is newly employed as part of a treatment team in an ambulatory care setting. After several | |counseling sessions, one of the clients he is counseling
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organisations work. It will help you to consider why certain companies or organizations in your chosen sector are successful and some are not. Whilst it will not give you a crystal ball it will hopefully give you a forward looking perspective on your chosen industry and many of its major companies This module will also allow you to integrate the wealth of knowledge you have gained throughout your course. Strategy is manifest in all the functional activities of the company i.e. marketing, operations, human
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