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nature of the business, environmental analysis, strategy position within the industry, competitive advantage, strategic … differentiation diversification. Examining the business environment analysis, the external environment has a moderately strong impact …

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Three Essays in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy: Post Bankruptcy Performance, Bankrupt Stock Performance, and Relationship with Hedge Funds and Other Vulture Investors

Xu, Min - 2010

Firms that emerged from Chapter 11 as public companies have tons of characteristics. The first essay analyzes their post bankruptcy performance, duration effect, and the quality of their projection information. While the sample's post bankruptcy performance does show improvement, their...

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The role of customer-contact personnel in the marketing of a retail bank's services

Julian, Craig C; Ramaseshan, Balasubramanian - 1994

Examines the role and importance of customer-contact personnel in the marketing of a bank's financial services and the importance of customer service in retail banking. Customer-contact personnel from suburban branches of an Australian retail bank identified their level of agreement with...

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Finance and accounting outsourcing: an empirical study of service providers and small business in Australia

Ray, Graham - 2009

small business, by identifying variables considered by both groups when considering outsourcing internal accounting … activities, and how these perceptions align. Research on small business behaviour is used in many industries to improve the … quality of service to the small business consumer. This research proposes a theoretical framework that identifies three …

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Epistemology of capital structure decisions by building contractors in Hong Kong

Chiang, Yat-Hung; Cheng, Eddie WL; Lam, Patrick TI - 2010

Purpose – This paper aims to identify a set of potential determinants of capital structure. By knowing the key determinants, it is possible to understand how building contractors make decisions on capital structure.Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire survey was conducted to solicit...

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Fund rating model based on finite normal mixture distribution

Gao, Zhangpeng; Rahman, Shahidur; Rahman, Shafiqur - 2010

This paper proposes a new method of fund rating based on the cross-sectional distribution of fund performance measured by alpha. This distribution-based fund rating model is more flexible and provides more interesting results than current commercial fund rating method used by Morningstar. Unlike...

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Competing Size Theories and Audit Lag: Evidence from Mutual Fund Audits

Cullinan, Charles P. - 2003

The existing audit lag literature identifies three theories for why client size may affect audit fees: (1) that larger clients have shorter audit lags because they can prepare their financial statements more quickly (the client preparation theory), (2) that larger clients have shorter lags...

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Top 10 Audit Deficiencies

Beasley, Mark S.; Carcello, Joseph V.; Hermanson, Dana R. - 2001

The article focuses on financial statement fraud based on cases wherein the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sanctioned auditors for their association with fraudulent financial statements. All of the cases involved public companies, most of which engaged ill fraudulent financial...

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Information, Credit Risk, Lender Specialization and Loan Pricing: Evidence from the DIP Financing Market

Daniels, Kenneth; Ramirez, Gabriel G - 2008

We provide an empirical support for theories of lender specialization using the recently developed market for Debtor-in-Possession (DIP) financing. The legal environment in which DIP financing operates represents a natural laboratory for testing determinants of lending specialization (e.g....

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The Market-Implied Economic Lives of Advertising Expenses and R&D Expenses

Miller, Tom W.; Mathisen, Richard W.; McAllister, John P. - 2005

Advertising expenses and research and development expenses are typically treated as operating expenses that affect current income. Managers often view advertising expenses and research and development expenses as costs and have difficulty identifying any associated benefits. However, they both...

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