In this paper, the authors address the problem of traffic surveillance in an Advanced Transportation Management System. They propose a new approach for detecting and tracking vehicles in road traffic scenes that attains a level of accuracy and reliability which lies beyond currently available...

Do expert informational intermediaries add value? We address this question by examining the informativeness of the audit report contained in the prospectus associated with a firm's initial public offering (IPO). At the time of the IPO, there is a relative lack of information to facilitate the...

This study examines Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 142 adoption decisions, focusing on the trade-off between recording certain current goodwill impairment charges below the line and uncertain future impairment charges included in income from continuing operations. We examine several...

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