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Although methodology use generally leads to fewer software defects and reductions in development time, the introduction of a formalized systems development methodology is often met with substantial resistance. Motivated by the purported benefits of methodology use, yet resistance to the...
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Prior research indicates that management forecast strategies affect investors' perceptions of management, which, in turn, influence investors' judgments about the firm. The current study hypothesizes and demonstrates that decisions about the completeness and form of management's forecast...
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Computerized decision aids are powerful tools to assist with decision-making. Decision models are designed to incorporate and analyze available data in order to present a recommended solution to a problem. Business decision makers, including accountants, have much to gain from integrating...
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This research study investigates the relationship between ambiguity, litigation risk, and auditor decision-making. In addition, this study investigates how auditor trust of his or her client may change these relationships. It is important to investigate the relationships of ambiguity, litigation...
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This research is designed to gain an understanding of how accounting students respond to realistic, business ethical dilemmas. Prior research suggests that accounting students exhibit lower levels of ethical reasoning compared to other business and non-business majors. This study uses the...
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The purpose of this research is to examine whether accounting methods for business combinations (purchase and pooling-of-interests accounting) have a different effect on firmsâ market value of equity in the combination year and thereafter. In particular, after the accounting method is no longer...
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This study investigates the relationship between threevisual representations (two-dimensional, three-dimensionalfixed, and three-dimensional rotatable) of multidimensionaldata, and the subjects' ability to make predictions basedon the data. Output of a momentum accounting system wassimulated and...
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This dissertation investigates auditor independence by examining the effects of various factors on independence, both in fact and as perceived by several distinct groups. The first study examines the effects of auditing students cognitive moral development and client risk on students judgments...
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Whether the quality of a firms reported earnings affects investors ability to predictfuture earnings and stock returns is still a subject of much debate among accounting researchers.Lev (1989) suggests that low quality earnings may be causing the relatively low correlationbetween reported...
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The purpose of this dissertation was to analyze the susceptibility of capital budgeting decisions to bias. Based on the political nature of many of these decisions, attribute framing effects were analyzed in a capital budgeting decision context. Specifically, two independent variables were...
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