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Motivations for US Foreign Direct Investment
Buoninfante, Christina - 2009
The purpose of this thesis is to determine US firms’ motivations for foreign direct investment and to explore to what extent US firms continue to invest into China and India. I first correlate the agricultural, industrial, and service sectors in the United States with those of China and India....
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Top 10 Audit Deficiencies
Beasley, Mark S.; Carcello, Joseph V.; Hermanson, Dana R. - 2001
The article focuses on financial statement fraud based on cases wherein the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sanctioned auditors for their association with fraudulent financial statements. All of the cases involved public companies, most of which engaged ill fraudulent financial...
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Information, Credit Risk, Lender Specialization and Loan Pricing: Evidence from the DIP Financing Market
Daniels, Kenneth; Ramirez, Gabriel G - 2008
We provide an empirical support for theories of lender specialization using the recently developed market for Debtor-in-Possession (DIP) financing. The legal environment in which DIP financing operates represents a natural laboratory for testing determinants of lending specialization (e.g....
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Factors Associated with U.S. Public Companies' Investment in Internal Auditing
Carcello, Joseph V.; Hermanson, Dana R.; Raghunandan, K. - 2005
Internal auditing has been the focus of much attention in recent years. This study examines factors associated with U.S. public companies' investment in internal auditing. Data from a survey administered to Chief Audit Executives of mid-sized U.S. public companies were supplemented with publicly...
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Stock Exchanges in the Middle East: Risky Business or Smart Investing?
Haddad, Jed A. - 2011
The goal of any investor is to obtain the highest possible return for his or her money. However for years, the debate has continued; stocks, bonds, mutual funds; which of these financial instruments will produce the greatest gain to give the investor the highest profit? Historically, stocks have...
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Futility of Stimulus Funds in the Middle of Huge Trade Deficits
Bhandari, Narendra C. - 2009
The U. S. is facing an unprecedented environment of increasing unemployment, declining income, disappearing middleclass, and mounting trade deficit (about $731 billion in 2007). The government is providing stimulus funds to a selected number of organizations to help solve these problems.However,...
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Red Lion Hotel Corporation
Shao, Yin-Chia - 2011
nature of the business, environmental analysis, strategy position within the industry, competitive advantage, strategic … differentiation diversification. Examining the business environment analysis, the external environment has a moderately strong impact …
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Three Essays in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy: Post Bankruptcy Performance, Bankrupt Stock Performance, and Relationship with Hedge Funds and Other Vulture Investors
Xu, Min - 2010
Firms that emerged from Chapter 11 as public companies have tons of characteristics. The first essay analyzes their post bankruptcy performance, duration effect, and the quality of their projection information. While the sample's post bankruptcy performance does show improvement, their...
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The role of customer-contact personnel in the marketing of a retail bank's services
Julian, Craig C; Ramaseshan, Balasubramanian - 1994
Examines the role and importance of customer-contact personnel in the marketing of a bank's financial services and the importance of customer service in retail banking. Customer-contact personnel from suburban branches of an Australian retail bank identified their level of agreement with...
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Finance and accounting outsourcing: an empirical study of service providers and small business in Australia
Ray, Graham - 2009
small business, by identifying variables considered by both groups when considering outsourcing internal accounting … activities, and how these perceptions align. Research on small business behaviour is used in many industries to improve the … quality of service to the small business consumer. This research proposes a theoretical framework that identifies three …
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