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Current Staffing Versus Accreditation Requirements And Versus Perceived Needs--A Survey Of Accounting Faculties, Jerome Bennett
Current Staffing Versus Accreditation Requirements And Versus Perceived Needs--A Survey Of Accounting Faculties, Jerome Bennett
Robins School of Business White Paper Series, 1980-2022
For a number of years there have been a series of reports detailing accounting faculty vacancies. As an underlying inference it seems that reported vacancies represent the genuine needs of the reporting schools as perceived by the administration. Categories include current vacancies, new vacancies and new positions. There has been in prior reports no other objective criteria against which the reported vacancies were to be analyzed. The recent set of accreditation standards regarding faculty positions as adopted by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business offers such a criteria. To test the correspondence of reported vacancies versus the accreditation …
Critical Success Factors—The Sine Qua Non Of Management Control Systems, Jerry Bennett
Critical Success Factors—The Sine Qua Non Of Management Control Systems, Jerry Bennett
Robins School of Business White Paper Series, 1980-2022
A primary cause of weak, ineffective management control systems is the failure to report to managers on the factors truly critical to success. Accounting executives must bear a substantial share of the blame—and blame should be attributed—for this state of affairs. Only if designed to do so can management control systems do that which the name implies.
Teaching Evaluation: A Survey Of Alumni Perceptions, N. Fayne Edwards, Robert Wesley Phillips
Teaching Evaluation: A Survey Of Alumni Perceptions, N. Fayne Edwards, Robert Wesley Phillips
Robins School of Business White Paper Series, 1980-2022
Few issues in academia raise as many conflicting opinions among the various constituencies of a university as does the subject of student evaluations. Faculty members either welcome student evaluations, live with them, or condemn them. Administrators may view them as a panacea, discount them as meaningless, or view them as one of many inputs necessary to judge the "worthiness" of an individual faculty member. Students believe they have the right to evaluate the faculty but they question how much reliance is placed on their views by the faculty and administration.
Control Of Internal Auditing As Viewed By The Audit Committee And The Ceo, Jerry Bennett
Control Of Internal Auditing As Viewed By The Audit Committee And The Ceo, Jerry Bennett
Robins School of Business White Paper Series, 1980-2022
Internal auditing must be controlled as must all functions, yet it must be free and sufficiently independent to fulfill its audit role. Control implies constraint, restraint, restrictions on freedom to initiate, to act. Control implies oversight by an authority higher up in a hierarchy. Control implies performance toward a plan and a subsequent appraisal of performance attained, including subjective judgments of the performer.
Price Behavior In Tight Oligopoly, Robert C. Dolan
Price Behavior In Tight Oligopoly, Robert C. Dolan
Robins School of Business White Paper Series, 1980-2022
The study examines price behavior in tight oligopoly. The investigation proceeds from the premise that tacit collusion is the only rational response of firms comprising tight oligopoly. The study's thesis is that collusive conduct in tight oligopoly will reflect one of two general pricing patterns: (1) shared monopoly pricing, or (2) mark-up pricing. A unique empirical test of this dual price hypotheses is developed. The test focuses on the nature of price responses to cost and demand changes as reflected in a price equation that is estimated for each of forty-two four-digit SIC industries. The study's results indicate infrequent, but …
Optimal Sequential Selection Based On Relative Ranks With Renewable Call Options, John S. Rose
Optimal Sequential Selection Based On Relative Ranks With Renewable Call Options, John S. Rose
Robins School of Business White Paper Series, 1980-2022
Sequential sampling problems may be affected significantly by the presence of sampling costs and the ability to recall historical observations. In the context of the classical secretary problem, we incorporate these two notions into the decision maker's action set, thereby creating a stopped decision process. Whenever a desirable applicant appears, we may consider purchasing an option to recall it subsequently. The problem is solved for the best-choice criterion, reduced or discounted by the option costs incurred.
Generalized Market Segments For Frequently Purchased Consumer Goods, Terry M. Weisenberger, Harold W. Babb
Generalized Market Segments For Frequently Purchased Consumer Goods, Terry M. Weisenberger, Harold W. Babb
Robins School of Business White Paper Series, 1980-2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate the existence of generalized, or non-product-specific, market segments using general Life Style measures. Demographically similar segments were derived which indicated quite different life styles. These segments demonstrated no overt differences in product usage; but they did use different criteria for product evaluation, indicating the potential for product positioning.
The Secretary Problem With A Call Option, John S. Rose
The Secretary Problem With A Call Option, John S. Rose
Robins School of Business White Paper Series, 1980-2022
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Inferential Operations Research On Surface Finish Of Castings, D. C. Ekey
Inferential Operations Research On Surface Finish Of Castings, D. C. Ekey
Robins School of Business White Paper Series, 1980-2022
This paper reports the result of an experiment using statistical research methodology to evaluate previous findings, identify new effects and focus on potential future research efforts to improve the control of casting surface roughness. The objective of developing a functional equation to predict casting surface roughness was achieved. A reliable and valid methodology for obtaining operational "surface imprints" of casting surface roughness was developed.