... characterized by information asymmetry between management and investors (Leland and Pyle, 1977), and between informed and uninformed investors (Rock, 1986; Beatty and Ritter, 1986) Several analytical models ... significant information asymmetry between the owners-managers and investors (Leland and Pyle, 1977), and between informed and uninformed investors (Rock, 1986; Beatty and Ritter, 1986) Theoretical research ... in well-developed capital markets such as the US, there is information asymmetry between management and investors (Leland and Pyle, 1977), and between informed and uninformed investors (e.g Rock,...
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... control for the impact of performance on estimated discretionary accruals using a performance-matched firm’s discretionary accrual, an alternative is to formally model accruals as a function of performance ... 6.6 Alternative discretionary accrual measures We also examine properties of other discretionary accrual measures including total accruals minus the industry median total accruals, total accruals ... accrual models as a function of performance (see Kang and Sivaramakrishnan, 1995; Healy, 1996; Dechow et al. , 1998; Peasnell et al. , 2000; Barth et al. , 2001) ARTICLE IN PRESS S.P Kothari et al...
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peasnell et al - 2005 - board monitoring and earnings management - do outside directors influence abnorm
... have generally defined total operating accruals as working capital accruals plus a key long-term accrual, depreciation We ignore the long-term component of total accruals, for several reasons ... proposed in the literature for separating operating accruals into abnormal (or discretionary) and normal (or non-discretionary) components (See Dechow et al. , 1995, for a review of these models.) ... The most frequently used methods are the Jones (1991) model and the modified-Jones model (Dechow et al 1995) Both methods involve estimating parameters for normal accrual activity by regressing...
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davidson et al - 2005 - internal governance structures and earnings management
... Jiambalvo, 1994; Becker et al. , 1998; Bartov et al. , 2000) Under this model, the level of discretionary accruals for a particular firm is calculated as the difference between the firm’s total accruals ... net income between t and t − divided by total assets SIZE (firm size) = natural log of total assets MKT (market to book ratio) = the market value of shareholders’ equity divided by the book value ... predicted level of non-discretionary accruals (NDAC) from total accruals, as calculated under the cash-flow approach (standardized by lagged total assets) TAC ijt = total accruals for firm i in industry...
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chi et al - 2005 - mandatory audit-partner rotation, audit quality and market perception - evidence from taiwan [mapr]
... promoting audit quality Following Myers et al (2003) and Johnson et al (2002), we first use two accrualbased proxies for audit quality: abnormal accruals and abnormal working capital accruals We find ... positive abnormal accruals and negative accruals, consistent with our prediction and Myers et al (2003) 4.1.3 Empirical Findings Based on Abnormal Working Capital Accruals We also use abnormal working ... before; (2) auditor type, Big4, defined before; (3) Growth potential, Growth, calculated as the sum of market value of equity and book value of total debt divided by book value of total assets,...
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arel et al - 2005 - audit firm rotation and audit quality [mafr]
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blouin et al - 2005 - the ultimate form of mandatory auditor rotation - the case of former arthur andersen clients
... natural logarithm of total assets (#6); decile rank of absolute value of residual from regression of annual returns on annual earnings (#18), changes in annual earnings, both scaled by total assets ... page ACCRUAL is performance matched discretionary accruals per the modified Jones [1991] model scaled by ending total assets LEVERAGE equals total debt divided by total assets BLOCK is equal to one ... mathematically on page ACCRUAL is performance matched discretionary accruals per the modified Jones [1991] model scaled by ending total assets LEVERAGE equals total debt divided by total assets BLOCK...
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cameran et al - 2005 -the audit firm rotation rule - a review of the literature [mafr]
... mathematical/microeconometrical models Figure 13: Method of analysis (empirical studies) EMPIRICAL STUDIES FOR AGAINST Total Published Unpublished Published Unpublished Analytical Research Archival ... incentives for building up a reputation for honesty Competition between auditors and capital markets are considered the best safeguard for the protection of auditor independence Gietzmann and Sen (Gietzmann ... support for mandatory auditor rotation even if the results are for small companies Analytical studies Elizur and Falk (Elizur and Falk, 1996) provided a multiperiod model for the planning of external...
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hamilton et al - 2005 - audit partner rotation, earnings quality and earnings conservatism [mapr]
... = Operating income in year t scaled by total assets in year t-1 DRET = if MRET in year t is less than 0; else = MRET = Fiscal year share return adjusted for the All Ordinary Index in year t PSWITCH ... addition to annual market adjusted stock returns measured over the contemporaneous fiscal year, we also reperform our analysis using stock returns measured with a lag of months, to allow for the reporting ... Fiscal year share return adjusted for the All Ordinary Index in year t = Total accruals in year t scaled by total assets in year t-1 *** Significant at 1% level p-values in brackets 36 Table Conservatism...
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becht et al - 2005 - corporate governance and control
... devices, abnormal returns, sales growth, the ration of net-liquid assets to total assets, debt/equity ratios, market/book ratios, price/earnings ratios and total assets (size) for 1977–91 They ... and also allows for alliances among small blockholders In such a setting he shows that one of the roles of a large blockholding is to fend off alliances of smaller blockholders that might compete ... takeovers in Italy (Olivetti for Telecom Italia; Generali for INA) and in France (BNPParibas; Elf Aquitaine for Total Fina) have spectacularly shaken up the sleepy corporate world of continental Europe...
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Charles Frohman: Manager and Man, by Isaac1Charles Frohman: Manager and Man, by IsaacThe Project Gutenberg eBook, Charles Frohman: Manager and Man, by Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman, et al This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at pot
... cross-legged, occasionally ringing for another ice, for he was so partial to sweets that he could never get them sweet enough, and sometimes he mixed two in the hope that this would make them sweeter I hear ... he quietly left the hotel and spent the night riding back and forth on the train between Calvert and Dallas This cost him nothing, for he had a pass At Galveston occurred an unexpected meeting ... on a meal-ticket good for twenty-two fifteen-cent meals that he had bought for three dollars Charles sat at rehearsals with Haverly He had a genius for stage effects and made many practical suggestions...
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combined trtmts. for mental disorders - m. sammons, et. al., (apa)
... randomized clinical trials in tertiary-care settings For example, Trivedi et al (1998), in devising their treatment algorithm for depression in primary care, avoided any mention of referral for psychotherapy ... randomized clinical trials in tertiary-care settings For example, Trivedi et al (1998), in devising their treatment algorithm for depression in primary care, avoided any mention of referral for psychotherapy ... n d Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-type (DSM) diagnosis, the treatment becomes uniform Hohagen et al (1998) demonstrated, for example, that MORGAN T.SAMMONS patients with DSM- III-R (American...
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computational medicinal chemistry for drug discovery - p. bultinck, et al., (marcel dekker, 2004)
... axial 10 Liljefors et al Figure Calculated energy dierences in kcal/mol between the E and Z conformer of Nmethylacetamide The dashed line indicates the experimental value Figure Calculated conformational ... Figure Calculated conformational energy dierences between axial and equatorial methyl-cyclohexane in kcal/mol The dashed line shows the experimental value 12 Liljefors et al Figure Calculated ... equatorial conformers for the dierent force elds All force elds correctly predict the equatorial Molecular Mechanics and Comparison of Force Fields Figure Calculated equatorialaxial conformational...
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Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics - Davide Brugali et al Part 1 pdf
... Middlewares for Distributed Computing DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-68951-5_22 Author Davide Brugali Subject Collection Engineering Text 395-398 PDF (115 kb) Trends in Software Environments for Networked ... PDF (0 kb) 27 Chapters Copyright ©2007, Springer All Rights Reserved First | 1-10 | 11-20 | 21-27 | Next of Book Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics Book Series Springer Tracts in Advanced ... PDF (0 kb) 27 Chapters Copyright ©2007, Springer All Rights Reserved First | 1-10 | 11-20 | 21-27 | Next of Book Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics Book Series Springer Tracts in Advanced...
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