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transparency) is positively associated with firm-level operational efficiency and access to external financing. Several cross … better-developed capital markets that facilitate capital allocation and production efficiency. Additional analyses using the …
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elucidate the impact of accounting uniformity on resource allocation efficiency …
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of an organisation's management control system play an important role in terms of explaining the effectiveness of … interdependencies arise among management control system elements and how they affect organizational effectiveness. Based on an in …
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This study examines whether acquirers make better acquisition decisions when target firms' financial statements exhibit greater comparability with industry peer firms. We predict and find that acquirers make more profitable acquisition decisions when target firms' financial statements are more...
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, industrial pricing strategies and determinants) and then attempted to show how pricing contributes to efficiency. Few special … management accountants (CMA), if we can prove our efficiency in pricing of products, we can ultimately enhance the efficiency of …
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the financial position, only privileges the inherent ideal of market efficiency as the principal imperative to a firm …'s survival in a global market. This focus on free-market efficiency, with its disregard for social and public policy implications … efficiency - especially when emerging economies are vulnerable to questionable social cost in their efficiency race to join the …
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In this paper, we examine the input-output efficiency of United Kingdom CPA firms using the Data Envelopment Analysis …, and we further find no evidence of persistent efficiency on a multi-period basis. The results of our study may serve as a … yardstick for CPA firms interested in assessing their efficiency relative to their peers, and as a new gauge of CPA performance …
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This paper suggests that despite various shortcomings of New Public Management (NPM) and the developments since the concept was introduced, NPM-like initiatives have seemed to remain important in the public sector in the Netherlands. The paper first addresses some societal forces, trends and...
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assumes semi-strong information efficiency in the markets for capital and for corporate control; and/or the use of executive …, enhancing their own apparent performance.The consequences for economic efficiency can include: allocating control of a business …This paper explores some consequences for economic efficiency of creative accounting practices by merging companies. It …
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hiring efficiency and provide evidence that high quality accounting reduces both over-investment in labor (over-hiring and … quality on net hiring efficiency is particularly strong in highly unionized industries. Finally, we also document that … accounting quality improves the efficiency of investments in labor, a key factor of production, and contribute to the emerging …
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