Digital Commons Network^™

Decision Support Systems, Expert Systems, And Artificial Intelligence: Realities And Possibilities In Public Accounting, Andrew D. Bailey, Rayman D. Meservy, Joanne H. Turner

Faculty Publications

As the business environment becomes more complex and more competitive, accountants and other business managers must exploit the advantages of the computer to remain competitive. Even though managers have long used data which was collected, stored, summarized, and reported using computer technology, managers have not traditionally used computers to manage. Only recently have managers realized that the computer is a cost-effective tool which can directly aid and support business decisions (i.e., not only can computers generate data to be used in making decisions, they can also make comparisons, evaluate alternatives, weigh the costs and benefits, and perhaps even make certain …

Healing Problems Of Intimacy By Clients' Use Of Gospel-Based Values And Role Definitions, Victor L. Brown Jr.

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Facilitating Intimacy: The Process And The Product, A Response To Victor L. Brown, Jr., H. Newton Malony

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

What We Are, C. Terry Warner

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Comment On C. Terry Warner's “What We Are”, Ivana Markova

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Old Testament And Related Studies, Hugh Nibley

Maxwell Institute Publications

In December 1832, the Lord instructed the Prophet Joseph Smith, “Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.”

Few members of the Church have followed that admonition as faithfully as has Hugh Nibley, emeritus professor of ancient history at Brigham Young University. As a young man he memorized vast portions of Shakespeare and studied Old English, Latin, Greek and other languages. As a student at Berkeley, in he began reading the southwest corner of the ninth level of the …

Review Essay: Stephen C. Ferruolo, The Origins Of The University: The Schools Of Paris And Their Critics, 1100-1215, Donald Sullivan

Quidditas

Stephen C. Ferruolo, The Origins of the University: The Schools of Paris and Their Critics, 1100-1215, Stanford University Press, 1985. $45.00

Response To Markova, C. Terry Warner

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Auditing, Artificial Intelligence And Expert Systems, Andrew D. Bailey, Rayman D. Meservy, Gordon L. Duke, Paul E. Johnson, William Thompson

Faculty Publications

This paper will provide the reader with an introduction to the field of financial auditing and the applicability of Decision Support Systems (DSS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Expert Systems (ES) to that field of endeavor. The paper will also discuss a continuing research project concerning the application of DSS/AI/ES techniques to the evaluation of internal accounting controls. The reader will find that the evaluation of internal accounting controls is a critical step in every financial audit and that it is an area in which the auditor exhibits substantial expertise. It is thus an area of work particularly suited to the …

Contributors

The Bridge

No abstract provided.

Reflections On Denmark As It Was, And Emigration To America, Arlow W. Andersen

The Bridge

In the late medieval and modern periods the histories of Denmark and Norway paralleled each other. During much of that interval the Union of Kalmar (1397-1523), which included also a dynastic tie with Sweden, practically insured common political, economic, and religious development. On the threshold of the modern age Sweden broke away from the Union (1523), but Norway was obliged to remain under Danish rule until 1814.

Lehi's Vision Of The Tree Of Life: An Anagogic Interpretation, Julie Adams Maddox

Theses and Dissertations

The significance of Lehi's life tree is that it gives life. Lehi's tree expresses the nonverbal, renews Lehi, effectually creates a culture, and keys the structure of a literary, viable, and contemporary scripture. My thesis chapters grow out of my reading of myth, tree mythology, and Lehi's dream. I see Lehi 1) traveling a polemic course toward the tree, 2) confronting the tree's death, and 3) by suffering, opening the symbol to his inner vision.
Lehi's first dream images, a dark and dreary wilderness vs. a man in white, suggest the birth of mythic creation. By traveling through and reconciling …

Sidney's Debt To Machiavelli: A New Look, William R. Drennan

Quidditas

"I wish not there should be / Graved in mine epitaph a poet's name," asserts Astrophil late in Sidney's sonnet sequence (AS 90.8-9), and on this point at least we may safely assume that Astrophil speaks for Sidney as well. Indeed, recent scholarship emphasizes that Sidney was drawn more to the arena of politics than to the world of letters, a world that he himself called only his "unelected vocation" (Works 3: 3). James M. Osborn, for example, in his Young Philip Sidney 1572-1577, stresses Sidney's patient preparation for and lifelong commitment to the theory and practice of …

Faculty Notes, Pi Sigma Alpha Review

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

The Union Of Legal And Political Theory, Noel B. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

This paper explores the social science concept of conventions as a way of understanding law that would bridge the enduring gap between natural law and legal positivist legal theories. It further finds in the conventionalist approach a promising account of the rule of law—both in how it may be characterized and in how it can be assessed in particular legal systems.

Danish-American Literature In Transition, Dorothy Burton Skardal

The Bridge

Danish-American literature was written by Danish immigrants in the United States mainly about and for members of their own group. Their lives were lived in constant psychological and cultural flux undergoing the pressures of assimilation; therefore their literature both grew out of and recorded multifaceted processes of transition. Today the literature Danish immigrants wrote is itself in transition: long unread or forgotten, it is now being rediscovered by Americans of Danish heritage. This brief introduction to the main Danish-American writers is meant to stimulate still more to reclaim their heritage preserved in Danish-language fiction and poetry.

Full Issue

The Bridge

No abstract provided.

Christmas Letter To My Daughter In Denmark, Cynthia Norris Graae

The Bridge

Twenty years ago, when I was a student (from the USA) at Someroille College, Oxford, a Danish student at Someroille invited me to her home for Christmas. My father had visited Denmark when he was fifteen, and the next year was a host to a Danish student at his home in Portland, Maine. I'd grown up with stories about his trip and his Danish guest, and I gladly accepted this invitation. Recently, my fifteen year old daugh- r ter spent a school year in Denmark. She lived with a family and studied at a Danish-speaking school, although she spoke almost …

Periodic Madness: Identifying And Treating Pms, Patty Cannon, Corydon Hammond

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Presented at the AMCAP Convention, 4 October 1984.

Combating Child Sexual Abuse: A Cautionary Essay, Dennis E. Nelson

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

No abstract provided.

An Alternative To "Unconscious Mental Processes", Bruce L. Brown

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

No abstract provided.

Reported Child Sexual Abuse: Subjective Realities, Trish Taylor, Dennis E. Nelson

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Presented at the AMCAP Convention 4 April 1985.

That Response To Loss That We Call 'Grief', Kathleen R. Buntin

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Presented at the AMCAP Convention 5 April, 1985.

S.A.V.E. . . . More Than A Four-Letter Word, Ricky D. Hawks, Eugene Buckner

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Presented at the AMCAP Convention 4 April 1985.

A Road Map To Hope, Elder John K. Carmack

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Presented at the AMCAP Convention. 3 October 1985.

Psychotherapy And The Religiously Committed Patient: A Book Review, Marybeth Raynes

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Book review of Psychotherapy and the Religiously Committed Patient edited by E. Mark Stern.

New Directions In Discipline: A Guide To Positive Parenting Without The Use Of Physical Force, Anne L. Horton

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Presented at the AMCAP Convention, 3 October 1985.

Front Matter, Amcap Journal

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

No abstract provided.

Tradition And Individualism: Hans Banziger's Books On Swiss And German Literature, Marianne Burkhard

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Over the years, I have seen Hans Banziger here and there, on both sides of the Atlantic. His slender figure would appear in the midst of people crowding lecture rooms at meetings of the Modern Language Association in New York or Chicago, his smile would suddenly greet me, in the summer, at the library in Zurich, and whenever possible he would attend the annual meeting of the Swiss American Historical Society, an intent listener often adding thoughtful comments or questions. Rather short in stature, his grey hair closely cropped, he has always been, for me, an example of the "Swiss" …

My Life, Hans Banziger

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

One of my very young students having gotten once the task to write on his short lifetime introduced his witty essay with the remark that curricula vitae reminded him always of necrologies. He went on, using the fiction of a minister's sermon, to describe his career: "A promising young life came abruptly to an end; Karl X had wanted to become a teacher, but his grades were not good enough ... ". Thus, you might understand, why I myself hesitated a little when Marianne Burkhard asked me to write about my life. Memoirs always sound a little bit sad. But …