This study provides public administrators with an introduction into research of the determinants of audit fees. A working knowledge of external audit cost determinants can help public administrators hone their evaluation skills for use in audit-procurement. Most prior research on audit cost...

There is a direct relationship between a single alarm probability and the average run length only for basic Shewhart charts such as the . Alarm rates are defined in this paper that can be applied with charts such as the cumulative sum (CUSUM) chart and the exponentially weighted moving average...

Quality improvement decisions are the catalyst for substantial technological improvements being made in the manufacturing sector. The ew technology, however, has developed faster than techniques for evaluating capital investments in such improvements. This is largely because the benefits of...