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Effects Of Rising Food And Oil Prices On Rural Households In Ghana: A Case Study Of Selected Communities In The Dangme West District Using The Cbms Approach, Felix A. Asante, Cynthia A. Tagoe, Alfred A. Boakye Jul 2010

Effects Of Rising Food And Oil Prices On Rural Households In Ghana: A Case Study Of Selected Communities In The Dangme West District Using The Cbms Approach, Felix A. Asante, Cynthia A. Tagoe, Alfred A. Boakye

DLSU Business & Economics Review

This study sought to examine the effects of rising food and oil prices on rural households in Ghana in relation to their food, access to healthcare and education, changes in their work situations, their financial management practices, and their recreational and leisure practices using three selected communities in the Dangme West district of the Greater Accra region – Dodowa, Ningo, and Prampram. A total of 300 households were interviewed. The households were divided concerning the issue of whether their standard of living was better, worse or had remained the same. In general, households that indicated they were worse off currently …


Analysis Of The Impact Of Changes In The Prices Of Rice And Fuel On Poverty In The Philippines, Celia M. Reyes, Alellie B. Sobrevinas, Joel Bancolita, Jeremy De Jesus Jul 2010

Analysis Of The Impact Of Changes In The Prices Of Rice And Fuel On Poverty In The Philippines, Celia M. Reyes, Alellie B. Sobrevinas, Joel Bancolita, Jeremy De Jesus

DLSU Business & Economics Review

This study aims to assess the impact of rising prices of rice and fuel on poverty in the Philippines. In particular, the variations in the potential effects among different group of households were analyzed using household level data. Results of the study confirm that the impact of increasing prices of rice and fuel vary across different groups of households depending on the sector of employment, level of urbanity, income group and geographical location. In fact, there are losers and gainers from the recent increases in the prices of rice and fuel. In response to higher prices, households adopted different coping …


Prospect Theory And The Financial Markets: A Review, Paulo Jose M. Mutuc Jul 2010

Prospect Theory And The Financial Markets: A Review, Paulo Jose M. Mutuc

DLSU Business & Economics Review

The Prospect Theory as proposed by Kahneman and Tversky (1979) has emerged as a widely accepted theory of decision-making, thanks largely to the persistence of observed anomalies in the trading of financial products – specifically, the existence of an unusually large premium on equities, and the tendency to hold on to losing investments (disposition effect). Questions about the true nature and extent of reference-dependent loss aversion as manifested by these phenomena, however, remain. In particular, for countries like the Philippines with relatively shallow capital markets, there is a need to reconcile financial education and advice with the reality of systematically …


The Context Of Cultural Intelligence – A Book Review Of David Livermore’S Leading With Cultural Intelligence: The New Secret To Success, Emiliano T. Hudtohan Jul 2010

The Context Of Cultural Intelligence – A Book Review Of David Livermore’S Leading With Cultural Intelligence: The New Secret To Success, Emiliano T. Hudtohan

DLSU Business & Economics Review

Livermore’s contribution to global leadership is his pioneering work on cultural intelligence (CQ), a new addition to a growing number of multiple formulations of human intelligences and quotients. By addressing culture as a key factor of leadership in a global context, he now provides a neutral perspective on culture for corporate leaders. This perspective is aligned with the growing trend of understanding other cultures and civilizations with empathy. Leading with Cultural Intelligence: The New Secret to Success may yet facilitate the implementation of global hypernorms proposed in integrative social contract theory and facilitate compliance to global standards of codes of …


توظيف قابليات إدارة الأزمة للحد من آثار الانحدار التنظيمي : الدور التفاعلي للقيادة التحويلية, صالح عبد الرضا رشيد, عامر علي حسين العطوي Jul 2010

توظيف قابليات إدارة الأزمة للحد من آثار الانحدار التنظيمي : الدور التفاعلي للقيادة التحويلية, صالح عبد الرضا رشيد, عامر علي حسين العطوي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تتسم بيئة الاعمال المعاصرة بالتغيرات المتسارعة في جميع عناصرها التكنولوجية، والسياسية والاجتماعية وغيرها، والتي بدورها فرضت تحديات وازمات متواصلة. يتوقف نجاح المنظمات واستمرار بقاءها على قدرتها على التعامل مع تلك التحديات والازمات. ولا يكاد يمر اسبوع لا نقرأ او نسمع فيه عن منظمة تواجه ازمة من نوع ما، على سبيل المثال لا الحصر، تسريح العاملين، عمليات الاستحواذ، عمليات الاندماج، تقليص حجم العمالة وغيرها من الازمات التي تعد مؤشراً لانحدار تلك المنظمات مالم تتمكن من ادارتها بطريقة فاعلة تمكنها من اجتيازها وتقليل الخسائر الناجمة عنها الى ادنى حد ممكن. وتعتمد الادارة الفاعلة للازمات في جانب مهم منها على سلوك قادة المنظمات …


Playing The Ratings Game: The Significance Of The Four Star Rating, Qianhua Ling, Daniel G. Neely Jul 2010

Playing The Ratings Game: The Significance Of The Four Star Rating, Qianhua Ling, Daniel G. Neely

Accounting Faculty Research and Publications

This study examines a group of exemplary rated nonprofits, organizations rated four stars by Charity Navigator, to determine if this select group of charities exhibits characteristics associated with top charitable organizations, or if the four-star rating achieved is limited to the more narrow financial metrics employed in the methodology utilized by Charity Navigator. Organizations rated four stars by Charity Navigator report a lower level of excess cash holdings, report lower levels of executive compensation and executive compensation that is less sensitive to performance, and are less financially vulnerable than their lower rated peers. The results shed light on the continuing …


Proposed Financial Statement Changes: Reactions To The Fasb-Iasb Discussion Paper, Don E. Giacomino, Michael D. Akers Jul 2010

Proposed Financial Statement Changes: Reactions To The Fasb-Iasb Discussion Paper, Don E. Giacomino, Michael D. Akers

Accounting Faculty Research and Publications

The purpose of this study was to obtain the opinions of future users of the financial statements: current undergraduate and graduate students in accounting and academia. We found that the students show greater agreement with the proposed model than do the CPA’s. In addition, we found that academia, as represented by the Financial Accounting Standards Committee of the American Accounting Association has a number of concerns regarding timing, user learning issues and impediments to learning, objectives and terminology and categorizing activities and assets and liabilities.


Addressing Problems With The Segregation Of Duties In Smaller Companies, Audrey A. Gramling, Dana R. Hermanson, Heather M. Hermanson, Zhongxia Shelly Ye Jul 2010

Addressing Problems With The Segregation Of Duties In Smaller Companies, Audrey A. Gramling, Dana R. Hermanson, Heather M. Hermanson, Zhongxia Shelly Ye

Faculty Articles

The article discusses the problems encountered by smaller companies in the U.S. in the segregation of duties under Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) section 404(a), which requires management to disclose its assessment of the effectiveness and weaknesses of internal control over financial reporting in the U.S. Analyses of the management report on internal control of sample companies cited by the authors showed that there are differences in the level of disclosure. The costs and benefits of using third parties in resolving segregation of duties problems are considered.


Corporate Valuation Around The World: The Effects Of Governance, Growth, And Openness, Choong Tze Chua, Cheol S. Eun, Sandy Lai Jul 2010

Corporate Valuation Around The World: The Effects Of Governance, Growth, And Openness, Choong Tze Chua, Cheol S. Eun, Sandy Lai

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis of corporate valuation around the world. Specifically, we (i) document and compare corporate valuation around the world, and (ii) identify the key factors that drive cross-country differences in valuation. In doing so, we utilize the country-level Tobin's q (CTQ), computed as the ratio of the aggregate market value to book value of all assets held by all public firms domiciled in a country, which amounts to the Tobin's q for the [`]market portfolio' of the country. The key findings of the paper are: First, CTQ varies greatly across countries, …


أثر عمليات إدارة المعرفة في متطلبات الإدارة الإلكترونية لدى الموظفين العاملين في الجامعات الفلسطينية : دراسة تطبيقية على الجامعة الإسلامية بغزة وجامعة الازهر بغزة, علي عبد الله الحاكم, خلود عطية احمد الفليت Jul 2010

أثر عمليات إدارة المعرفة في متطلبات الإدارة الإلكترونية لدى الموظفين العاملين في الجامعات الفلسطينية : دراسة تطبيقية على الجامعة الإسلامية بغزة وجامعة الازهر بغزة, علي عبد الله الحاكم, خلود عطية احمد الفليت

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى التعرف على أثر عمليات إدارة المعرفة على متطلبات الإدارة الالكترونية لدى الموظفين العالمين في الجامعة الإسلامية وجامعة الازهر. وطرحت سؤال رئيس وهو: ما هو أثر عمليات إدارة المعرفة في متطلبات الإدارة الإلكترونية لدى الموظفين العاملين في الجامعات الفلسطينية؟؟ وتم اختيار الجامعة الإسلامية وجامعة الازهر في غزة لإجراء الدراسة عليها. و تم الاعتماد على المنهج الوصفي التحليلي لملائمته الظاهرة محل الدراسة، وتم تصميم استبيان أعد خصيصاً لتحقيق اهادف هذه الدراسة، حيث تم الاعتماد على طريقة العينة العشوائية الطبقية، حيث تم توزيع (180) استبانة على مجتمع الدراسة وتم الحصول على (160) استبانة صالحة للتحليل بنسبة استرداد (88.9%)، وتوصلت …


Comments On Ed Financial Instruments: Fair Value Option For Financial Liabilities, Tan, Pearl Hock-Neo Jul 2010

Comments On Ed Financial Instruments: Fair Value Option For Financial Liabilities, Tan, Pearl Hock-Neo

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

No abstract provided.


Modified Information Criteria For Selecting A Finite Mixture Model, Safa K. Kadhem, Hajem A. Daham Jun 2010

Modified Information Criteria For Selecting A Finite Mixture Model, Safa K. Kadhem, Hajem A. Daham

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

Recently, a paper published by Celeux et al. (2006) presented several forms for the deviation information criterion (DIC) for mixture models, each version is depended on the kind of probability function. However, no reliable version was adopted for those models. As an idea inspired by Brooks (2002, p. 617), we develop, in this paper, Bayesian deviations plugging into two known criteria: the Akaike information criterion (AIC) and Bayesian information criterion (BIC) for choosing best mix model. Due to unavailability the closed-form of the perceived likelihood of those models, we propose an algorithm for estimating the observed likelihood for mixture models …


Do Auditors Adjust Their Audit Plans Accordingly When They Encounter Material Automated Control Weaknesses?, Daniel D. Selby Jun 2010

Do Auditors Adjust Their Audit Plans Accordingly When They Encounter Material Automated Control Weaknesses?, Daniel D. Selby

Accounting Faculty Publications

Automated control weaknesses are associated with defects in computer hardware or computer applications. AU 319 does not require auditors to add professionals with specialized skills in automated controls (or IT audit specialists) to the audit engagement. Auditors may encounter a material automated control weakness and adjust their audit plan without the assistance of an IT audit specialist. Thus, auditors may not adjust their audit plan enough to gain an understanding of the material automated control weakness. This is an important problem for auditors because this problem may result in misstated financial statements and incorrect internal control opinions if auditors fail …


Auditing Standards Board (Asb) Meeting, June 21-24, 2010, Atlanta, Ga; Highlights (Asb) Meeting, June 21-24, 2010, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Jun 2010

Auditing Standards Board (Asb) Meeting, June 21-24, 2010, Atlanta, Ga; Highlights (Asb) Meeting, June 21-24, 2010, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.


Cpas Increasingly Asked To Address Information Technology Challenges For Clients, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Jun 2010

Cpas Increasingly Asked To Address Information Technology Challenges For Clients, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.


Comment Letters On Proposed Statement On Standards For Attestation Engagements, Reporting On Compiled Prospective Financial Statements When The Practitioner’S Independence Is Impaired, June 3, 2010, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting And Review Services Committee Jun 2010

Comment Letters On Proposed Statement On Standards For Attestation Engagements, Reporting On Compiled Prospective Financial Statements When The Practitioner’S Independence Is Impaired, June 3, 2010, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting And Review Services Committee

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.


Proposed Statement On Standards For Attestation Engagements, Reporting On Compiled Prospective Financial Statements When The Practitioner’S Independence Is Impaired, June 3, 2010, Comments Are Requested By September 10, 2010; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2010, June 3, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting And Review Services Committee Jun 2010

Proposed Statement On Standards For Attestation Engagements, Reporting On Compiled Prospective Financial Statements When The Practitioner’S Independence Is Impaired, June 3, 2010, Comments Are Requested By September 10, 2010; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2010, June 3, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting And Review Services Committee

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.


Secrets And Lies: How One Man Charmed His Way Into The Hearts, Minds And Wallets Of New York's Rich And Powerful, Knowledge@Smu Jun 2010

Secrets And Lies: How One Man Charmed His Way Into The Hearts, Minds And Wallets Of New York's Rich And Powerful, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

Bernie Madoff’s reputation as the largest ponzi scheme operator will probably outlast the 150-year jail sentence he is now serving. For decades, the man created an aura around himself that spoke to the romantic ambitions of Wall Street's sycophants: unyielding success, exclusivity and power. Moreover, Madoff conjured a mystique so intriguing he had investors practically begging to surrender their money. But not everyone was blinded. Harry Markopolos, a financial consultant turned famous whistleblower, was convinced that the magician hath no magical abilities. For close to ten years, he nudged US regulators to no avail. His journey is detailed in the …


Maximized Monitoring, Constance M. Lehmann, Sridhar Ramamoorti, Marcia Weidenmier Watson Jun 2010

Maximized Monitoring, Constance M. Lehmann, Sridhar Ramamoorti, Marcia Weidenmier Watson

Accounting Faculty Publications

During the last few years, global financial companies and investment banks have taken billions of dollars in write-downs owing to exposure in the subprime lending market. Lack of risk function visibility, insufficient communication of risks to top management, and siloed risk approaches have been cited as reasons for these failures. New York University finance professor Nouriel Roubini, one of the few who predicted the crisis, famously observed at the World Economic Forum's 2009 Davos Summit that risk cannot be priced correctly "when the opacity and lack of transparency of financial firms and new instruments lead to unpriceable uncertainty rather than …


Cpa Client Bulletin, June 2010, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Jun 2010

Cpa Client Bulletin, June 2010, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.


Comments On Ed Financial Instruments: Amortized Cost And Impairment, Tan, Pearl Hock-Neo Jun 2010

Comments On Ed Financial Instruments: Amortized Cost And Impairment, Tan, Pearl Hock-Neo

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

No abstract provided.


Proposed Statement On Auditing Standards, Filings With The U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission Under The Securities Act Of 1933, June 1, 2010, Comments Are Requested By August 2, 2010; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2010, June 1, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Jun 2010

Proposed Statement On Auditing Standards, Filings With The U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission Under The Securities Act Of 1933, June 1, 2010, Comments Are Requested By August 2, 2010; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2010, June 1, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.


Comment Letters On Proposed Statement On Auditing Standards, Filings With The U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission Under The Securities Act Of 1933, June 1, 2010, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Jun 2010

Comment Letters On Proposed Statement On Auditing Standards, Filings With The U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission Under The Securities Act Of 1933, June 1, 2010, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.


Proposed Revisions To The Aicpa Standards For Performing And Reporting On Peer Reviews, Performing And Reporting On Peer Reviews Of Quality Control Materials (Qcm) And Continuing Professional Education (Cpe) Programs, June 1, 2010, Comments Should Be Received By August 31, 2010; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2010, June 1, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Peer Review Board Jun 2010

Proposed Revisions To The Aicpa Standards For Performing And Reporting On Peer Reviews, Performing And Reporting On Peer Reviews Of Quality Control Materials (Qcm) And Continuing Professional Education (Cpe) Programs, June 1, 2010, Comments Should Be Received By August 31, 2010; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2010, June 1, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Peer Review Board

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.


Comment Letters On Proposed Revisions To The Aicpa Standards For Performing And Reporting On Peer Reviews, Performing And Reporting On Peer Reviews Of Quality Control Materials (Qcm) And Continuing Professional Education (Cpe) Programs, June 1, 2010, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Peer Review Board Jun 2010

Comment Letters On Proposed Revisions To The Aicpa Standards For Performing And Reporting On Peer Reviews, Performing And Reporting On Peer Reviews Of Quality Control Materials (Qcm) And Continuing Professional Education (Cpe) Programs, June 1, 2010, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Peer Review Board

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.


The Effect Of Internal Control Weakness Under Section 404 Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act On Audit Fees, Jong-Hag Choi, Jeong-Bon Kim, Soo Young Kwon, Yoonseok Zang Jun 2010

The Effect Of Internal Control Weakness Under Section 404 Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act On Audit Fees, Jong-Hag Choi, Jeong-Bon Kim, Soo Young Kwon, Yoonseok Zang

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

In this paper, we investigate the effect of the enactment of the SarbanesOxleyAct (SOX) in 2002 on audit pricing, using a sample of 252 firms that received an “Ineffective” audit opinion and other firms that received cleanaudit opinion on the effectiveness of the internal control over financial reportingunder Section 404 of SOX. Our analyses show the following. First,we find that auditors charge significantly higher audit fees for all firms inthe post-SOX period than in the pre-SOX period. Second, we find that auditors’opinions on the weakness in internal control (WIC) are positively associatedwith audit fees, and that the positive association between …


The Roles That Forecast Surprise And Forecast Error Play In Determining Management Forecast Precision, Jong-Hag Choi, Linda A. Myers, Yoonseok Zang, David A. Ziebart Jun 2010

The Roles That Forecast Surprise And Forecast Error Play In Determining Management Forecast Precision, Jong-Hag Choi, Linda A. Myers, Yoonseok Zang, David A. Ziebart

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

Studying the determinants of management forecast precision is important because a better understanding of the factors affecting management’s choice of forecast precision can provide investors and other users with cues about the characteristics of the information contained in the forecasts. In addition, as regulators assess the regulation of voluntary management disclosures, they need to better understand how managers choose among forecast precision disclosure alternatives. Using 16,872 management earnings forecasts collected from 1995 through 2004, we provide strong evidence that forecast precision is negatively associated with the magnitude of the forecast surprise and that this negative association is stronger when the …


Direct And Indirect Effects Of Internal Control Weakness And External Audit Effort On Accruals Quality: Evidence From A Unique Canadian Regulatory Setting, Hai Lu, Gordon D Richardson, Steven Salterio Jun 2010

Direct And Indirect Effects Of Internal Control Weakness And External Audit Effort On Accruals Quality: Evidence From A Unique Canadian Regulatory Setting, Hai Lu, Gordon D Richardson, Steven Salterio

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

Public disclosure about effectiveness of internal control systems is subject to much controversy in Canada, resulting in Canadian disclosures being made in Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A). These disclosures are provided to investors without a definition of the weaknesses to be reported, without implementation effectiveness testing, no direct management certification and no external audit of such disclosures. Though the cost of such SOX North disclosures are lower than in the U.S setting, the credibility of these disclosures is far from assured, posing an important empirical issue for regulators interested in the cost versus benefit trade-off of various disclosure regimes. We …


Audit Fees: To Disclose Or Not To Disclose?, Teng Aun Khoo, Soo Chiat Hwang Jun 2010

Audit Fees: To Disclose Or Not To Disclose?, Teng Aun Khoo, Soo Chiat Hwang

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

The authors argue that the disclosure of audit fees can provide a more level playing field in Singapore, and would also be consistent with the other major capital markets in the world. Auditors' independence is the cornerstone of the auditing profession, because without auditor's independence investors would not be able to rely on the so-called "audited" financial statements. Currently in Singapore, audit-fee disclosure is not mandatory except for banks as stipulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).


The Association Between Accounting Students' Lone Wolf Tendencies And Their Perceptions, Preferences And Performance Outcomes In Team Projects, Premila Gowri-Shankar, Jean Lin Seow Jun 2010

The Association Between Accounting Students' Lone Wolf Tendencies And Their Perceptions, Preferences And Performance Outcomes In Team Projects, Premila Gowri-Shankar, Jean Lin Seow

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

In this study we examine the association between accounting students’ lone wolf tendencies and their perceptions of the usefulness of team work, team interaction behaviors, and team performance. While prior studies find that students generally perceive positive benefits from engaging in team work, our study finds that students with greater lone wolf tendencies perceive fewer benefits from engaging in team work. We also find that during team interactions, teams with a greater proportion of students with higher lone wolf tendencies experience less team commitment and team leadership. Further, such teams rate the outcome of their project negatively, although, there is …