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Accounting-based entity valuation - Integration and implementation of key performance indicators within LIM-based valuation models
Falkum, Alexander - 2011
The renaissance of accounting-based valuation models in the 1990s has primarily been triggered by the analyses of … accounting information as at valuation date. The derivation of the so called 'other information' has not been specified by Ohlson …
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Die Qualitätsprojekte Q2E und OES im Vergleich : eine Analyse der Qualitätshandbücher und des Autonomierahmens beruflicher Schulen in der Nordwestschweiz und in Baden-Württemberg...
Bittorf, Burghard - 2008
Diese Arbeit vergleicht Qualitätshandbücher beruflicher Schulen in der Nordwestschweiz und in Baden-Württemberg, die zur Dokumentation von Qualitätssystemen verwendet werden. Dabei stellt das Qualitätssystem Q2E aus der Schweiz einen Orientierungsrahmen für das baden-württembergische...
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Making sense of financial education
Klein, Valerie - 2007
A major area of concern for sociologists and economists who study poverty and inequality is the financial well being of low-income individuals as measured by their opportunities to participate in what is considered the "mainstream financial market." Scholars suggest that a myriad of factors,...
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Teaching Statistics in a Spreadsheet Environment Using Simulation
Barr, Graham D; Scott, Leanne - 2011
The authors’ experiences with a new teaching approach in an introductory statistics course involving some 1200 first … teaching of statistics within a spreadsheet environment whereby students are, inter alia, required to master the basics of MS … exploring the statistical distributions of a number of pieces of information generated by the students. Teaching sessions are …
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Identifying key competences of industrial design and technology graduates in small and medium-sized enterprises
Garner, Steve; Duckworth, Adrian - 1999
Industrial design graduates can be true ‘agents of change’ in manufacturing industry andnowhere is this potential more valuable than in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)where flexibility and speed of response are essential and which make up 94% of the UK economy.However, little...
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Pedagogical innovations in sustainable development: Fair trade in the classroom
Lewis, Katrina; Dickinson, Torry; Lewis, Summer - 2009
groups that work with women-owned cooperatives in Mexico and Nicaragua. By teaching nonviolence studies, this educator helps …
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Modeling the United States Unemployment Rate with the Preisach Model of Hysteresis
Hutton, Richard Shane - 2009
A system with hysteresis is one that exhibits path dependent but rate independent memory. Hysteresis can be observed physically through the magnetization of a ferromagnetic material. In order to mathematically describe systems with hysteresis, we use the Preisach model. A discussion of the...
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Performance evaluation of judgemental directional exchange rate predictions
Pollock, Andrew C.; Macaulay, Alex; Thomson, Mary E.; … - 2005
A procedure is proposed for examining different aspects of performance for judgemental directional probability predictions of exchange rate movements. In particular, a range of new predictive performance measures is identified to highlight specific expressions of strengths and weaknesses in...
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The influence of the forecast horizon on judgemental probability forecasts of exchange rate movements
Thomson, Mary E.; Pollock, Andrew C.; Henriksen, Karen B.; … - 2004
An experiment is reported which compares directional forecasting performance of experts, novices and simple statistical models over three time horizons on a task involving probabilistic forecasts of exchange rate movements. Probability-judgement accuracy analyses illustrated no clear overall...
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Feedback-labelling synergies in judgmental stock price forecasting
Goodwin, Paul; Önkal-Atay, Dilek; Thomson, Mary E.; … - 2004
Research has suggested that outcome feedback is less effective than other forms of feedback in promoting learning by users of decision support systems. However, if circumstances can be identified where the effectiveness of outcome feedback can be improved, this offers considerable advantages,...
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