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develop a model using mathematical analysis and case-based reasoning to automate the allocation of onsite supervisory manpower … buildings and industrial construction. In the modelling the costs and allocation of onsite supervisory manpower are quantified …
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This paper describes a financial statement analysis project useful in both preparerbased and user-based introductory courses in financial accounting. The project requires students to analyze trends in corporate performance, to evaluate corporate financial decisions, to discuss non-financial...
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This note summarizes the contributions of three agriculturalists (Hall, Orwin and Wyllie) to agricultural cost accounting development in Britain in the early twentieth century. Through an examination of their writings and advocacies, an account is provided of their pioneering work in applying...
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Project overheads estimation by applying a selected rate as a percentage of direct cost is used widely in bidding in … support system (DSS) based on a construction firm's cost data and using a neural network model for mapping of overheads rates … model explains the effects of duration and direct cost on overheads rates that the regression method fails to account for …
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This paper examines and develops the firm-centered price theory of Post Keynesian economics. It takes issue with the traditional interpretation of that theory, arguing that although its prices are cost-based, they are not cost-determined. The distinctiveness and significance of the theory are...
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quality is difficult to gauge, which makes it particularly sensitive to the behaviour of the individuals who carry on audit … dysfunctional audit behaviour. The paper is subject to the normal limitations associated with survey research. The paper provides …
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adequately addressed actual board behaviour in strategy and the impact of context on this behaviour. With this argument in mind … develops a preliminary scale to measure this strategizing behaviour. Finally, I discuss the implications of this thesis for …
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relationships is followed by simulation, which aims to reproduce the problem behaviour(s) of concern, or in the case of a new …
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process provides marketers with an understanding of consumer behaviour decisions. The allocation of time to shopping is also … also been shown to affect shopping behaviour. This paper investigates the differences in retail shopping time between the … two countries with a focus on the impact of travel time and time pressure on shopping behaviour. Demographic and personal …
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answered is whether adhering to the culture of the organisation and respecting the values and ethical behaviour of the … ethical behaviour by their employers there is still a need for a trade union that could assist them in getting benefits such …
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