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An introduction to the interaction between the universities and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand
Devonport, Bernadette F. - In: Pacific Accounting Review 21 (2009) 2, pp. 150-169
Accountants of New Zealand (ICANZ), the main organization of the accounting profession in New Zealand. Design … the means for the Institute to educate prospective members. Differences in approach towards accounting education … to the Institute later in the twentieth century turning to other tertiary institutions to provide its accounting …
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Collective Punishments: Incentives and Examinations in Organisations
Banerjee, Priyodorshi - In: The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 7 (2007) 1
The paper investigates the impact of examinations on incentives and decision-making in bureaucracies and similar …
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Practical tips for satisfying FINRA's "culture" concerns
Nathan, Daniel A. - In: The journal of investment compliance 18 (2017) 1, pp. 8-14
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Time In Purgatory: Examining the Grant Lag for U.S. Patent Applications
Popp, David; Juhl, Ted; Johnson, Daniel - In: Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy 4 (2004) 1, pp. 1329-1329
As patent applications increase, and the range of patentable technologies increases, the length of time it takes for an invention to go through the examination process at the U.S. Patent Office has increased. Concerns over the distributional effects of these changes have been expressed during...
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Chapter 24 Economics of dental services
Sintonen, Harri; Linnosmaa, Ismo - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1251-1296). 2000
The purpose of this chapter is to review dental economics in three major areas: (i) demand for and utilisation of dental care, (ii) productivity, technical efficiency and economies of scale in dental care production, and finally (iii) economic evaluation of dental care procedures and programmes....
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Efficient Tuition & Fees, Examinations and Subsidies
Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Trannoy, Alain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
A student's future log-wage is given by the sum of a skill premium and a random personal ‘ability’ term. Students observe only a private, noisy signal of their ability, and universities can condition admission decisions on the results of noisy tests. We assume first that universities are...
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Collective Punishments: Incentives and Examinations in Organisations
Banerjee, Priyodorshi - In: Contributions to Theoretical Economics 7 (2007) 1, pp. 1388-1388
The paper investigates the impact of examinations on incentives and decision-making in bureaucracies and similar …
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The bees algorithm for workload balancing in examination job assignment
Baykasoglu, Adil; Ozbakir, Lale; Tapkan, Pinar - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 3 (2009) 4, pp. 424-435
In this paper, an integer quadratic programming model is proposed for workload balancing in the examination job assignment problem. The proposed model can be classified as part of the 'Generalised Assignment Problem' or GAP, which is known as an NP-hard problem. To solve the proposed model, a...
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Cash for Answers: the Association Between School Performance and Local Government Finance
Mulberg, Jon - In: Sociological Research Online 5 (2000) 3
One of the reasons that the publication and content of secondary school performance tables in England is such a controversial political issue is the introduction of quasi-market models in public services in the 1980's and 1990's. These models assume that the outcome of the educational process in...
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North American Securities Administrators Association 2007 Report of Investment Adviser Examinations
In: Journal of Investment Compliance 9 (2008) 1, pp. 35-39
Association 2007 Report of Investment Adviser Examinations, to help all member jurisdictions and advisers gain a better …/methodology/approach – Summarizes results of examinations in the categories of registration, unethical business practices, books and records … “best practices” recommendations based on the results of the examinations. Findings – Of the 418 examinations conducted …
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