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The goal of this thesis is twofold: it aims, firstly, at a description of cycles in SouthAfrican financial variables and, secondly, at the evaluation of the relationshipbetween cycles in financial variables and the South African business cycle. The studyis based on the original business cycle...
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The modelling of stock market volatility is considered to be important for practitioners and academics in finance due to its use in forecasting aspects of future returns. The GARCH class models have now firmly established themselves as one of the foremost techniques for modelling volatility in...
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Wirtschaftsprognosen sollen die Unsicherheit bezüglich der zukünftigen wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung mindern und Planungsprozesse von Regierungen und Unternehmen unterstützen. Empirische Studien bescheinigen ihnen jedoch in aller Regel ein unbefriedigendes Qualitätsniveau. Auf der Suche nach...
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The recent accounting scandals, characterised by the Enron affair, have not been confined to the U.S.A., but have been …
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This study has examined the relationship between corporate governance structures and the performance of a sample of companies listed on the Malaysian Stock Exchange in the post-Asian financial crisis period beginning 2001 and ending in 2003. The sample was selected to provide matched-pairs of...
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) (previously known as International Accounting Standards (IAS)).The regulation further determined that the effective date of this … African Statements ofGenerally Accepted Accounting Practice (South African SGAAP). The implication ofthe acceptance of the … that there are still substantial differences between these twosets of accounting standards. No such study was conducted in …
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regarding share price behaviour, and more specifically with respect to the relationship between inflation accounting and the … results by revaluing their assets and accounting for additional depreciation. Prior to 1984 a fair proportion of the companies … number of inflation accounting models were developed based either on AC 201 or other suggestions found in the literature …
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From the early 1990’s, both the marketing and accounting disciplines have reported insightful and similar developments … organization-wide information and action on customers and competitors. In accounting, research into ‘strategic management … accounting’ has also emphasised the need for customer and competitor information in management decision-making. Given the common …
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examining the perceptions of accounting users and preparers. It explores the information needs of the main users of accounting … study compares Saudi Accounting Standards (SASs) and IFRSs. In addition, a questionnaire survey was conducted and semi … nature of accounting standards is investigated, as well as theories of accountability and decision usefulness in order to …
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Wenn Unternehmen ihre Geschäftsprozesse auf die Erreichung strategischerWettbewerbsvorteile ausrichten wollen, dürfen sie nicht nur Kosten senken,sondern müssen die Prozesse auf die Kunden und die Unternehmenszieleausrichten. Dafür ist es notwendig, ihre Wertschöpfung zu ermitteln....
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