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A case study of the balanced scorecard in public hospitals

Vesty, Gillian M - 2004

The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is an innovative management accounting tool, designed by Kaplan and Norton in 1992, now … management accounting function. The influence management accounting has in multidimensional performance measurement system … measures in both hospitals, performance measurement centred on external funding requirements. Management accounting in …

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The standard of care and responsibility required of auditors in the detection of fraudulent or illegal activity : the AWA case

Malane, Francis - 2005

The auditor's role in the detection of fraudulent or illegal activities has posed a continuing dilemma. In the 1980's, a lengthy period of large profits made by Bond, Skase and others, was followed by corporate collapses and subsequent findings of significant losses. Recently, the large...

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Development of a board IT governance (ITG) review model

Buckby, Sherrena; Best, Peter J. - 2007

Information Technology Governance has become increasingly important as countries across the world establish legislation and guidelines on the responsibilities of Boards of Directors (Boards) for ITG within organizations. As a result of organizational dependence on Information Technology (IT),...

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ED151, A Flawed Approach

Andrew, B; Hughes, M - 2007

This paper argues the recent proposals expressed by the Australian Accounting Standard Board in Exposure Draft 151 … tried to achieve this objective by reducing alternative treatments in accounting standards and providing increasing levels …

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Managers? Views on ABC in An Insurance Company: A grounded theory case study

Norris, G; Innes, J - 2002

This is an in-depth case study using a grounded theory approach to explore managers? views of ABC as part of the control system in an insurance company. Relevant issues are allowed to emerge from the data rather than imposing a theoretical framework upon them. Hypotheses are derived rather than...

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Aircraft lease-purchase decision making : what influences airline management?

Davis, Glenda; Zakrzewski, Dorothea - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2008

In the airline sector many aircraft are subject to long-term lease agreements in the belief that operating, investing and financing benefits flow to the lessee. This study aims to provide a better understanding of lease-purchase decision-making from an airline perspective. Aircraft acquisition...

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A comparison of the suppliers' and customers' perspectives of functions of international business relationships

Sharma, Neeru; Hoque, Mohammad Ziaul - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2007

The objective of this paper is to enhance our understanding of international business-to-business relationships by presenting empirical evidence on the nature and relative importance of various relationship functions performed by the suppliers and the customers in trading relationships. Using...

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The effects of trust and management incentives on audit committee judgments

Rose, A; Rose, J; Dibben, MR - 2010

We investigate the effects of audit committee members' dispositional trust and management incentives on audit committee judgments. Results of an experiment indicate that: (1) When management has incentives to manage earnings, less trusting audit committee members are more likely to support the...

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The implications of auditors' dispositional trust and career advancement opportunities for the detection of fraud

Rose, A; Rose, J; Dibben, MR - 2010

profession, wecollected dispositional trust measures from 53 graduate accounting students who planned toenter the auditing …

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Research Productivity of Accounting Academics in Challenging Times: A meta-analysis

Wills, DI; Ridley, GJ; Mitev, HM - 2008

increase the research productivity of higher education institutions. Such mechanisms have put pressure on accounting academics … accounting graduates leading to increased teaching loads.These developments make it timely to investigate the factors that affect … the research productivity of accounting academics. The research reported upon in this paper undertook a meta-analysis of …

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