In a recent paper, Yoram C. Peles and Meir I. Schneller (1989) ignore the sampling autocorrelation bias. A replication of their work that removes the bias changes their results. With the bias removed, there is no evidence that their three long-term ratios follow an adjustment process. Copyright...

This article contributes to the fuzzy logic application literature in accounting by examining a key issue in the use of fuzzy logic: how to find an optimum number of classes to minimize the decision maker's cost. Two costs are assumed: (1) we assume fuzziness is costly and thus should be...