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Influences on financial decision making among the rural poor in Bangladesh

Jackson, Laurel R. - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2010

This thesis gives a voice to the chronically poor people of rural Bangladesh, enabling them to tell their own stories about the nature of their financial decision making which is taking place within the marketing systems that are operating in all poor villages in the region. Financial decision...

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Spotlight on financial planning education in Australian universities

Cowen, Janet E.; Blair, W. T.; Taylor, Sharon; … - University of Western Sydney; Macquarie University; … - 2004

Financial planning in its broadest terms is now in the spotlight as it draws interest from a wide range of groups including consumers, regulators, government, the financial services industry, accountants and most importantly educators. This paper presents a descriptive analysis which provides a...

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Modelling the efficiency of health care foodservice operations : a stochastic frontier approach

Assaf, Abdallah G. - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2007

The important role of efficiency in the health care foodservice sector has been widely addressed in the literature. Different methods for assessing performance have been proposed. In general, most measures were calculated as simple ratios such as food and labour cost per meal or limited...

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On the information content of idiosyncratic equity return variation

Rahman, Md. Arifur - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2007

in the context of each of a set of emerging Asian stock markets. After properly accounting for unobserved firm …

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Comparison of the new "econophysics" approach to dealing with problems of financial to traditional econometric methods

Koh, Jason S. H. - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2008

, ARCH (1), GARCH (1, 1) and its extensions as compared to econophysics models such as Power Law model, Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG … periods and sub-periods of markets. The results show the robustness of Power Law analysis, with the Power Law exponent (0.4 to … return. However, the procedure for testing empirical data against a hypothesised power-law distribution using a simple rank …

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Financial soundness and development : a multi-country analysis using panel data

Akhter, Md. Selim - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2008

A large body of the literature argues that the soundness of financial system is largely determined by the economic and institutional environment in which the financial system works. Drawing on this theoretical underpinning, research in this thesis models financial soundness indicators (FSIs)...

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International accounting education : an Australian perspective

Hor, Jamal; Juchau, Roger - University of Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2005

For the past two decades, accounting educators and professional bodies have made calls for internationalizing the … accounting curriculum (AAA 1986; AECC 1990; AACSB 1994; IFAC 2002). The International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) has … established international accounting standards for worldwide application. In Australia, the Australian Accounting Standards Board …

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A comparison of the suppliers' and customers' perspectives of functions of international business relationships

Sharma, Neeru; Hoque, Mohammad Ziaul - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2007

The objective of this paper is to enhance our understanding of international business-to-business relationships by presenting empirical evidence on the nature and relative importance of various relationship functions performed by the suppliers and the customers in trading relationships. Using...

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