The purpose of this study is to determine whether the composition of a company’s audit committee affects decisions by retail (non-institutional) investors. We examine if these investors’ confidence in reported earnings is affected by the number of committee experts under the U. S. Securities...

The limitations of traditional linear multiple regression analysis (MRA) for assessing value of real estate property have been recognized for some time. Artificial intelligence (AI) based methods, such as neural networks (NNs), have been studied in an attempt to address these limitations, with...

This paper describes a first effort to design and implement an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system based approach to estimate prices for residential properties. The data set consists of historic sales of homes in a market in Midwest USA and it contains parameters describing typical residential...