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Forecasting sales, expenses and stock market values by quarterly financial statement ratio analysis

Rushinek, Avi; Rushinek, Sara F. - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 10 (1995) 2, pp. 7-33

Presents a case study demonstrating financial statement ratio analysis (FSRA). This analysis matches company to industry data and builds sales forecasting models. FSRA imputes forecast standards of sales and costs, and applies them to a budgeted financial statement variance analysis for the EE...

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Data Management and the Auditor

Vinten, Gerald - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 2 (1987) 2, pp. 23-25

How should auditors cope with their data? A data management approach is urged, resting on statistical principles and putting a premium on simplicity. An example is used to show how quite a simple inspection and presentation of primary data, allied to basic statistical measures, can often provide...

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Using the ethnostatistics methodology to reconcile rhetoric and reality: an examination of the management release of Enron’s year end 2000 results

Smith, William L.; Boje, David M.; Gardner, Carolyn - In: Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management 1 (2004) 2, pp. 1-16

We analyzed the earnings release of the Enron Corporation for the year ended December 31, 2000. By applying the methodology of ethnostatistics we were able to gain insight into the environment of earnings releases, the underlying meanings ascribed within the content and the resulting limitations...

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Exploring a market curiosity: an examination of the Super Bowl Indicator

Thompson, Thomas H.; Sen, Kabir C. - In: Managerial Finance 43 (2017) 2, pp. 167-177

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive initial evaluation of the Super Bowl Indicator (SBI) from 1966 to 2015. Design/methodology/approach The authors evaluate the predictive ability of the SBI over two different time periods on four stock market indexes. Also, the...

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What do we know about the incidence of group work (if anything)?

Benders, Jos; Huijgen, Fred; Pekruhl, Ulrich - In: Personnel Review 31 (2002) 3, pp. 371-385

Whereas group work has been much discussed throughout the 1980s and 1990s, there are few statistical studies about its incidence. The available surveys have adopted a variety of methodological approaches. This paper discusses these studies to investigate two questions: Are there differences in...

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Bates, Reid - In: Personnel Review 31 (2002) 5, pp. 540-552

This study explored the ability of liking and two forms of rater‐ratee similarity to predict multi‐source proficiency ratings of managerial competencies. Findings from the regression model that included all raters indicated that technical proficiency, rater‐ratee liking, demographic and...

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The use of human resource information systems: a survey

Ball, Kirstie S. - In: Personnel Review 30 (2001) 6, pp. 677-693

Presents the results of a survey of the use of human resource information systems (HRIS) in smaller organizations, conducted in 1998. The survey enquires as to the nature of information stored electronically in three core areas: personnel, training and recruitment as well as the type of...

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Enabling property professionals to overcome the limitations of quantitative research

Stansfield, Frederic Ronald - In: Property Management 13 (1995) 4, pp. 36-43

Use of statistics in property research is increasing, although little emphasis has traditionally been placed on … knowledge of statistical techniques by property professionals. Three levels of complexity are identified for the statistics used … to identify property issues: simple descriptive statistics, comparative statistics using methods available as standard …

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RICS construction market survey

In: Property Management 17 (1999) 1

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The latest ONS quarterly institutional investment figures

In: Property Management 17 (1999) 1

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