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disturbing factor in the progress of bussines activities, providing quality at the required standards is a sine qua non … order to achieve their strategic goals. For some companies, the cost of quality becomes a variable that must be downsized in … order to obtain a more considerable profit. For other companies instead, quality is the key which makes the difference. So …
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, mostly aim to obtain economic and financial performance by improving quality and thus optimizing emergent costs. From this … perspective, quality improvement within the economic entity must be a continuous activity which aims mainly to target the … to highlight that quality improvement becomes a very important process whose primary concern should be: discovering …
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Reporting social behavior of the company in a similar annual reporting of financial matters, supports the establishment of a social report (corporate social reporting) between the entity and the community to which it belongs. This analogy with accounting and financial reporting is imposed today...
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El objetivo de este trabajo es conocer en qué medida los usuarios de la información contable universitaria están interesados en contar con información relativa al capital intelectual, así como cuáles son sus opiniones sobre los motivos por los que las universidades no divulgan información...
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attention to the problematics concerning the quality of the products or the services granted to consumers. In this context, the … credible evaluation of the quality cost inclines to become a major concern for all economic operators. This study is based on … determinations realized in order to evaluate the quality cost are based on the principle of historic costs and, on the other hand …
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Taking into considerations the obvious importance of the concept of quality, the inevitable question arises "What is … the cost of quality?", clearly reaching the notion of "cost". It would seem absolutely logical and natural, that when we … are referring to the total quality cost, from the professional point of view, to have an accountant that should take care …
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While the need for, and the value of, Continuous Improvement (CI) Management in practice is well established; their successful implementation has proven problematic. Employee resistance, due to business cultural incompatibility, is considered a major cause. Unfortunately, current budgeting systems...
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Business firms as well as each of their subunits can be thought of as a set of contracts in which participating agents seek their own goals. Participants contribute resources, expecting to receive in exchange more than the opportunity cost of their contributions. For this system to work, the...
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In his 2007 book lt;igt;No Seat at the Tablelt;/igt;, Professor Douglas Branson aptly describes how patterns of male dominance inherent in the legal structures of corporate governance reproduce themselves again and again to keep women out of executive suites and boardrooms, and then he offers a...
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This study investigates gender diversity among the top managers of Fortune 500 firms and its effect on agency costs. The study finds that firms with a greater percentage of female officers present lower agency costs but that the negative relation is not robust when considering the endogeneity of...
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