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Analyzing Dividend Policy: A Questionnaire Survey, Richard B. Edelman, Gail E. Farrelly

Historical Working Papers

A survey of financial executives in three industry groups to ascertain the impact of dividends on stock value. Results reveal that there is a belief dividends are important to investors despite a widespread controversy over that very question. Dividends may serve as a signaling device to investors, regardless of economic impact. Some difference in dividend policy between the utility industry and other industries suggests that industry specific information is lacking.

Bonds Issued Between Interest Dates: What Your Textbook Didn't Tell You, Elbert B. Greynolds, Jr., Arthur L. Thomas

Historical Working Papers

Inconsistencies in calculating the interest that accrues to bonds due to application of straight line allocation is investigate. The authors suggest that compound interest should be appropriately calculated to avoid paradoxical outcomes.

Teaching Software System Design: An Experiential Approach, Thomas E. Perkins

Historical Working Papers

A curriculum approach is presented that provides students with experience incorporating user input into the software design process.

An Interactive Approach To Pension Fund Asset Management, David A. Goodman, John W. Peavy, Iii

Historical Working Papers

Pointing to anomalies that suggest the market is not entirely efficient, a new hybrid strategy is proposed that plays on the strengths of bothsecurity analysis for undervalued securities and risk return analysis in choosing investment targets.

Diversity And Performance: The Elusive Linkage, C. K. Prahalad, Richard A. Bettis

Historical Working Papers

Studing diversified firms, the key element is revealed that the mindset of management and its ability to adapt to management of a new enterprise is a key element in the success of a diversified business.

Robust Regression: Method And Applications, Vijay Mahajan, Subhash Sharma, Jerry Wind

Historical Working Papers

Four approaches to linear robust regression analysis are presented. In the presence of outliers or bad data points in marketing data, these procedures provide formal methods to identify outliers and to reduce their influence on the final estimates of the regression coefficients. Use of these procedures in regression models is considered in two typical marketing applications and superiority of these procedures, as compared to the traditional ordinary least squares procedure, in reducing the effect of influential observations is documented. The paper concludes with suggested guidelines for their use in marketing applications.

Strategy As Goals-Means Structure And Performance: An Empirical Examination, William R. Bigler, Jr., Banwari L. Kedia

Historical Working Papers

Sampling of CEOs and top managers of 90 Louisiana banks is used to explore the relationship between goals and the means to accomplish those goals. Results indicate that a "main thrust" kind of goal may be identified for an organization but goals remain rather poorly related to performance. The relationship to performance may be strengthened by obtaining more precise goals and increasing the number of outcome criteria to encompass outcomes meaningful to more stakeholders.

Differences Between Futures And Forward Prices: An Empirical Investigation Of The Marking-To-Market Effects, Hun Y. Park, Andrew H. Chen

Historical Working Papers

Using six commodities and four foreign currencies a comparison is made of the value of futures and forward contracts. Results indicate that the detected differences are attributable to the continual resettlement procedure embedded in futures contracts.

Small Business Evaluates Its Relationship With Commercial Banks, William C. Dunkelberg, Jonathan A. Scott

Historical Working Papers

Characteristics of banks that serve small business are studied within the scope of formal studies that have been completed. Apparently larger, primarily urban, banks are less able to provide the personal contacts that small business owners want in dealing with a banking institution.

Accounting Paradigms And Short-Term Decisions: A Preliminary Study, Michael Van Breda

Historical Working Papers

A survey was conducted of firms that were chosen based on the perception that it would be easiest to observe management and production variables. The study attempted to find what variable mattered most in measuring success within the firm. Results show that short term accounting variables are almost exclusively the measures used in American business to evaluate performance.

1983-1984 Course Catalog (Graduate), Columbia College Chicago

Course Catalogs

1983-1984 graduate course catalog

Use Of Knotted String Accounting Records In Old Hawaii And Ancient China, Lyle Elmer Jacobsen

Accounting Historians Journal

The use of the "quipu" for accounting purposes has been primarily attributed to the Peruvian Inca culture in the days of old. Documented evidence, however, provides that early Hawaiians and ancient Chinese predated the Incan usage. Studies concentrating on the quipu as an accounting device rather than as an element in the evolution of the writing process might provide valuable contributions to the solution of the mystery surrounding this artifact. Insight into the development of mankind in the Pacific may be gained by understanding the use of the quipu in the East and West, and in Hawaii-- "meeting place" of …

Developing And Improving Selected Aspects Of Marketing In Nigeria So That Nigeria May Have A Favourable Balance Of Trade With Its World Trading Nations, Isaac Bola Olubunmi

Theses

The Project is about the development and the improvement of the economy of Nigeria so that Nigeria may be fairly self-sufficient in food production . The project is meant to suggest specifically what Nigeria needs to do as far as marketing is concerned , so that it may have a favourable balance of trade with its trading world nations.

In the pursuit of these goals , I have attempted an extensive discussion on the whereabouts of Nigeria relative to the rest of the African countries , its climate and the climatic influences on the agricultural activities of man . Nigeria …