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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of real earnings management by private and public firms in a unique institutional setting, which is the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The paper also compares the level of real earnings management between public and private firms...
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analysis was regarded as the dominant capital budgeting tool for incorporating risk and the widely used method for calculating … affects the use of the capital budgeting methods (NPV, IRR and PB) and incorporating risk tool (sensitivity analysis and … budgeting practices dominantly NPV, IRR and incorporating risk tool of sensitivity analysis although they were found to be …
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relation to implementation, management and risk control of PPPs. Originality/value This study makes an original contribution to … the existing literature on PPPs by examining the way in which management controls are used to minimise risk in a PPP in a …
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views of disabled people and service users about risk. Design/methodology/approach – The consultation reached nine … literature. Findings – The landscape of risk and rights is highly complex. Disabled people and service users have quite different … concerns about risk to those of the professionals and the regulatory bodies acting on their behalf. Many people talked of the …
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Although in recent years elder abuse has attracted considerable social and professional attention, it is still in the opinion of many a taboo subject. In this paper the author examines why this is the case and considers what has been learnt. In doing so he considers causation and predisposing...
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This paper describes one woman's personal experience of Alzheimer's disease and her reflections on risk and what it …
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Purpose The issue of mental health and policing is a subject that has been debated from a number of different perspectives. The purpose of this paper is to report on the findings of a case study that explored mental health difficulties and vulnerability within police custody....
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the case for examining the concept of positive risk taking (PRT) in the … of risk in health and social care and the recent changes in society resulting from COVID-19. Findings Inherent tensions … the benefits of risk taking. This indicates not only a need for a paradigm shift in attitudes but also a research agenda …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the signs of safety and wellbeing practice framework offers a practical and logical reinforcement for the Making Safeguarding Personal programme within the practice context of the Care Act. The new practice framework orientates safeguarding...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to look at concerns about risk/abuse expressed spontaneously by people with … study on the impact of producing narratives on PwD and their carers. Participants were found to allude to risk/abuse, or … specifically mention thoughts on risk and abuse in their narratives. A secondary analysis of the theme of risk/abuse is reported …
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