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The new Basel Capital Adequacy Accord (Basel III) is an agreement among countries' central banks and bank supervisory authorities on the amount of capital banks must hold as a cushion against losses and insolvency. Basel III is of concern to Congress mainly because it could put U.S. financial...
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In the increasingly competitive world of retail banking, organizations are focusing their attention on customer service as a means of increasing customer loyalty and retention. With this goal of increasing customer retention, the link between the attitudes of the service provider (employee...
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"This paper investigates the relationship between certain accounting measures that purport to reflect a firm's risk and …) and total risk (standard deviation of return) as dependent variables. Results indicate that the accounting measures do …
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Over the last twenty years UK banks have reviewed and streamlined traditional credit assessment techniques for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. In pursuit of margin and market share, today’s due diligence relies increasingly on centralised data and statistical “certainty” than on the...
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During Peter Drucker’s talk entitled "Business and Management: The Changing Corporation" he discusses: joint alliances and market agreements, parent companies and their subsidiaries, changing technology and markets, seniority and Japanese companies, mutual funds and pensions, mortgages,...
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This paper evaluates the valuation accuracy of the price-earnings (P/E), the price-book (P/B) and a combined price-earnings and price-book (P/E-P/B) benchmark valuation methods. Performance of the benchmark valuation methods relies on the definition of comparable firms. In this paper, comparable...
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The goal of the emancipatory accounting project is to explore ways by which accounting can make social values a … fundamental part of the accounting process. Critical accounting scholars are challenged to discover ways that facilitate a broader … goals, this paper examines an intervention as an exploratory attempt to move emancipatory accounting out of the confines of …
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I explore the effect of accounting complexity on misreporting using a setting of revenue restatements. I measure …
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descriptive study examines the accounting component of U.S. E.M.B.A. programs. Based on a national survey of E.M.B.A. programs …, the primary results are: (1) accounting is an important component of the E.M.B.A., generally comprising over 10 percent of … the curriculum; (2) accounting material is most often delivered through class discussion, case analysis and lecture, (3 …
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first two years of the new century resulted in a new structure for the oversight of public accounting firms. The Public … Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) was established with the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. This Board was … given the authority to inspect all public accounting firms who provide audits to publicly-owned companies reporting to the …
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