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Two Essays On Investment, Yao Zheng

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation consists of two essays: one looks at the time-varying relationship between earnings and price momentum, and the other looks at how liquidity and transparency affect the pricing differential between Chinese A-and Hong Kong H-share.

The first essay presented in Chapter I investigates the time varying relationship between earnings momentum and price momentum. Using a Markov-switching framework, allowing for variation between high volatility and low volatility states, I find that price momentum is significantly more influenced by earnings momentum in the high volatility state. Further for price momentum I find that loser firms display a higher degree of differential …

Cost Accounting Applied To Farming In Southwest Michigan, Toni Fisher

Honors Theses

The purpose of this study is to discuss how cost accounting is applied to the farming process. Specifically, this study evaluates and defines costs incurred within the farming industry where products are produced and sold after being generated from raw materials. Successful farmers must know the costs of raw materials acquired to produce cash corps.

While there are many types of crops farmed in southwest Michigan, this study specializes in cash crops, specifically corn and soybean production. Cost accounting methods applicable to the farming industry are introduced, discussed and applied in this study. A spreadsheet is presented which displays typical …

Economic Effects Of A Lifo Reserve Rollover, Michael Eubanks

Honors Theses

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) have been working together toward the convergence of accounting standards to provide a single set of high quality global standards. Companies who are currently in compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) will need to make necessary adjustments as those standards converge with International Standards. GAAP uses a rules based approach while the IFRS is more principle based. These contrasting approaches create differences that need to be reconciled at various levels of the two standards’ applications. Perhaps the most telling example, under AIS 2 Inventories, the …

Women Leading Women: Reinforcing The Glass Ceiling?, Marian A. Suarez

Theses & Dissertations

This qualitative narrative study explored the experiences of 10 women who worked in Corporate America and reported to female supervisors, and the perceptions they attached to those relationships with regard to their professional growth and career advancement. The main goal of the study was to understand how these women felt their female leaders either helped or hindered their climb up the corporate ladder. The Social Cognitive Theory of Gender Development and the narrative inquiry framework were used to shed light on the experiences reported by the female employees and how their gender and the gender of their supervisors may have …

The Effects Of A Goal-Setting Program On Cognitive And Somatic State Anxiety, State Self-Confidence, And Performance Of High School Swimmers, Jasmine R. Millan

Graduate Theses

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a staggered approach, season long goal-setting training program on the state self-confidence, cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety, and performance of high school female swimmers. It was hypothesized that the use of a goal-setting training program would result in the swimmers having higher state self-confidence, lower cognitive state anxiety, lower somatic state anxiety, and improved performance. Results indicated that participation in a ten week goal-setting training program successfully helped high school female swimmers achieve higher state self- confidence, lower cognitive state anxiety, lower somatic state anxiety, and improved performance.

Re-Opening A Dan’S Pet Supply Store In Hemet, California, Jeffrey Z. Harrison

Agribusiness

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine if Dan’s Feed & Seed should re-open a pet supply store in the town of Hemet, California. The goal was to satisfy three objectives including if Dan’s Feed & Seed could compete in the current market, if there was a demand in Hemet, California, and if Dan’s could be profitable within a two year period. Dan’s proved to be able to compete with the competition by having lower prices with two out of three competitors and could compete with the remaining competitor by providing high quality, name brand dog food that …

Menaxhimi I Shërbimeve Bankare Me Rast Analize-, Albiona Selimaj

Theses and Dissertations

Në këtë punim do të mundohem të tregoj se si kemi arritur në këtë pikë ku mundemi të manipulojmë me paratë tona pa shkelur këmbë fare mbrenda filijalës së bankës, cilat janë mundësitë që na i ofron teknologjia dhe çka na pret në të ardhmen. Do të mundohem të gjeje përgjigje në pyetjen si mund të rrisim efikasitetin e punës në bankë duke integruar informatikën dhe teknologjitë e reja. Duke pasur parasysh mungesën e hulumtimeve dhe çasjen në të dhënat bankare të dhënat dhe informatat e përdorura janë mbledhur nga interneti, si dhe do të përdori përvojën time të punës …

Auditimi Dhe Llojet E Tij, Mehdi Bytyqi

Theses and Dissertations

Duke pasë parasysh përfitimet që kanë bizneset nga një sistem i mirëfilltë dhe i organizuar duke pranuar faktin se sistemet e tilla të punës mbi të gjitha kanë nevojë dhe domosdoshmëri për të oragnizuar edhe praktikën e auditimit. Kjo praktikë për momentin në Kosovë është vetëm në institucionet dhe organizmat e qeverisë e jo edhe në sektorin privat. Në Kosovë nuk vërehen investime nga bizenset kosovare në drejtim të implementimit të sistemeve të auditimit.

Unë kam tentuar që të bëjë një hulumtim rreth kësaj dukurie për të arritur dy qëllime, e para për të shpjeguar sadopak se pse bizneset nuk …

Statistikat Mbi Regjistrimin E Popullsisë: Metodologjia E Aplikuar, Lirije Muja

Theses and Dissertations

Në një botë dinamike që po ndodhemi me një numër të madhë të popullsisë në mbarë botën, regjistrimi i popullsisë luan rol të madh në aspektin ekonomik dhe politik. Po të mos egzistonte regjistrimi i popullsisë së një vendi nuk do të ketë përshpejtim në zhvillimin ekonomik të vendit që është element parësor për çdo shtet.

Për regjistrimin e popullsisë në këtë temë kemi paraqitë të gjitha elementët e zhvillimit të regjistrimit të bërë në vendin tonë për vitin 2011-të, duke filluar nga Metodologjia e regjistrimit që në të përfshihen të gjtha proceset e bërjes së regjistrimit : Ligji për …

Cikli Jetësor I Produktit, Inovacionet Dhe Rritja Ekonomike, Qëndresa Sopaj

Theses and Dissertations

Ky punim diplome përshkruan ciklin jetësor si koncept nga marketing si dhe fazat përbërëse të ciklit. Gjithashtu një pjesë i kushtohet edhe rëndësisë së teknologjisë dhe evolucionit industrial të shekullit të 18-të dhe elaboron rëndësinë e tij për rritjen ekonomike. Një koncept tjetër mjaft me rëndësi është teoria e “Shaktërrimit Krijues” e Schumpeter-it si dhe ndërlidhja e kësaj teorie me progresin teknologjik.

Për të punuar punimin është përdorur literaturë nga autorë të shumtë të cilët shpjegojnë teorinë e “Shkatërrimit krijues” të ekonomistit Joseph Schumpeter. Gjithashtu janë nxjerrë rezultate të cilat lidhin ndryshimet teknologjike me rritjen e standardit jetësor të popullsisë …

Ndërlidhja E Teknologjisë Informative Me Menaxhimin E Burimeve Njerëzore [Sistemi Informativ I Burimeve Njerëzore “Sibnj”], Hana Qerimi

Theses and Dissertations

Sot, Burimet Njerëzore janë bërë pjesë e pandashme me një rëndësi të veçantë në sistemet menaxhuese të bizneseve të vogla të mesme dhe të mëdha. Rritja dhe zhvillimi i tregut të punës ka sjellë me vete nevojën e madhe për të pasur menaxhim të Burimeve Njerëzore ku si pasojë, janë identifikuar shumë metoda të cilat ndihmojnë për një zhvillim biznesor të suksesshëm. Në kohën e tanishme në të cilën po përjetojmë tregun global me një rritje të madhe të fuqisë punëtore dhe zhvillim enorm të teknologjisë informative, është bërë e mundur që këto dy lëmi të bashkëpunojnë ngushtë mes vete …

Distribution Channels Management In Banking Sector Global Trend And Strategies, Merita Gjyshinca Peja

Theses and Dissertations

This paper seeks to evaluate the Banking sector in Kosovo, more specifically distribution channels development, channels management, integration among them, and global trends and strategies. Distribution channels development and management in banking is becoming an essential component on achieving customer satisfaction, improve costs efficiency and profitability.

In order to make the study more comprehensive I will also provide global perspective of the banking sector in Kosovo in general, global financial crises and its effects. The thesis describes how banks manage and take advantages of banking multi-channels through focusing on customer satisfaction, efficiency and channels integration versus costs. I will analyze …

Përdorimi I Praktikave Të Prokurimit Elektronik Në Evropën Juglindore Për Kosovën, Naxhie Sadiku

Theses and Dissertations

Në temë shtrohen problemet në procesin e sistemit të prokurimit publik në Kosovë si dhe në përpjekjet e ndryshimit të sistemit nga prokurimi klasik në nisjen e aplikimit të prokurimit elektronik, duke u mbështetur nga ajo që pothuajse në gjitha vendet e tjera ky aplikacion është në përdorim. Përdorimi i platformës së prokurimit elektronik bën punën më të thjeshtë , më të shpjetë dhe më efikase. Të gjitha shtetet antare të BE-së aplikojnë sistemin sipas direktivave 2004/17 dhe 2004/18, poashtu edhe vendet e rajonit aplikojn proceset e prokurimit përmes platformës elektronike si rrugë më e shpejtë dhe më transparente. Prokurimi …

Investimet Në Sektorin E Energjisë Dhe Privatizimi I Këtij Sektorit, Besnik Sylejmani

Theses and Dissertations

Në këtë punim do njoftoheni per investimet e bëra në sektorin e energjisë elektrike dhe për privatizimin e pjesshëm të këti sektori. KEK-u është korporata më me ndikim në shtetin e Republikës së Kosovës dhe tatimpaguesi më i madh në vend.

Të dhënat statistikore janë marrë nga KEK,Oda Ekonomike e Kosovës (OEK),Ministria për Zhvillim (MSH), Ministria e Financave (MF), Administrata Tatimore e Kosovës (ATK).

Qëllimi i këtij punimi është të shohim se sa janë bërë investime në këtë sektor dhe se si po ecën privatizimi.

Playing At Work: Creating A Physically Creative Training Center, Christine Grotke

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

This project explores the idea of fostering creativity in the physical work environment through the use of a training center. The training center would be a place where employees and management of an organization could learn about the Creative Problem Solving process using elements such as play, incubation, and an individual’s interaction with their physical surroundings. Once the physical requirements of what makes a creative environment are learned in the training center, the techniques could then be applied to the workplace in order to encourage a more productive and positive atmosphere. The research and different studies in this paper help …

The Effectiveness Of Sell Discipline Strategies In Institutional Portfolios, Ryan Kennedy

Business/Business Administration

Prospect theory predicts that individuals will be risk seeking when faced with a potential loss. An implication is that investors may be reluctant to sell losing stocks, leading to potentially greater losses. This study explores whether institutional portfolio performance is significantly related to the manager’s stated sell discipline strategy. Six distinct sell discipline approaches are compared using four performance metrics. As predicted by prospect theory, this study finds sell discipline to be a statistically significant factor in performance for all performance metrics. The results also show that the best sell discipline strategy is dependent on which performance metric is used.

Branding For A New Wellness Program: The Importance Of Brand Identity And Using Social Media, Jennifer Jenkins

Journalism

In today’s world, health organizations are all about losing weight and getting into shape. While this is important to maintain one’s health, it is not the only factor in a healthy lifestyle. Lou F. saw this great discrepancy in the wellness field, and decided that what was needed was an organization dedicated to mental health as well as physical health, encompassing fitness training, nutrition, and counseling for the everyday individual as well as the corporate world. With this idea in mind, Lou set out to create this type of organization. This paper addresses the importance of creating a strong brand …

Interactive Marketing Strategies In Television Networks: Incorporating Satellite Media Tours In Twitter, Kathleen Maloney

Journalism

The following study investigates how to design and implement an effective interactive marketing strategy for the television industry. The study also explores how satellite media tours and social media, specifically Twitter, can be used together in an interactive marketing plan. As new technology is continuously being developed and target audiences are increasingly demanding instantaneous interactive content, it is pertinent to understand how to successfully use these tools in a marketing plan to engage audiences. According to Nick Abramovich, the Chief Executive Officer of Synaptic Digital, a multichannel digital media creation and distribution platform (Inc Magazine, 2011), “brands are realizing that …

Family Policies And Institutional Satisfaction: An Intersectional Analysis Of Tenure-Track Faculty, Heather Lee Schneller

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Gender and faculty career advancement have been examined with a focus on academic work environment, including faculty workloads, mentoring relationships, access to research networks, and work-life balance. Previous studies concerned with gender, employment, and care work only have considered child care. Additionally, the exploration of faculty and care work focused specifically on gender instead of examining the interaction of race and gender. To date, no study on academic work-life policies includes faculty perceptions of their importance and effectiveness nor has the faculty assessment of eldercare policy been examined in relation to career success.

Guided by an intersectional perspective, this study …

On Export Intermodal Transportation Problem, Supriya Arun Jadhav

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates a logistics problem facing companies that export their products to other countries. The problem is called export intermodal transportation problem. In the export intermodal transportation problem, goods ordered by overseas customers need to be transported from production plants or warehouses of an export company to the customers destinations overseas. The transportation involves using multiple transportation modes such as trucks and rails for the inland portion and ocean liners for the overseas portion, and its objective is to have the goods moved and the cost minimized subject to various constraints. Cost can be minimized by combining orders from …

The Compatibility Of National Culture In International Mergers And Acquisitions, Chaoyun Liu

Senior Honors Theses

This paper examines the relationship between national culture differences and five-day cumulative abnormal returns of acquirers around cross-border merger announcements. The sample consists of 1,200 cross-border deals by frequent acquirers from emerging countries for the period of January 1, 1985 to June 30, 2008. The main objective is to analyze the relation between the difference in Hofstede (1984)’s four cultural dimensions --- power distance, individualism, masculinity, and uncertainty avoidance and the merger performance. The results imply the compatibility of some cultural dimensions, individualism in particular, that result in gains in merger. The results also show that the cultural effects vary …

The Effect Of Gender And Leadership Styles On Employee Satisfaction, Brittany Williams

HIM 1990-2015

To ensure the success of a company, it is essential for supervisors to interact effectively with the employees they oversee. Effective interactions between supervisor and employee go hand-in-hand with employee satisfaction, which can impact firm performance. The purpose of this thesis is to examine key drivers of employee satisfaction. Specifically, this thesis tests whether or not employees with supervisors of the same sex as themselves are more satisfied than employees with supervisors of the opposite sex. It also compares and contrasts the level of satisfaction an employee has in correspondence with transformational and transactional leadership styles and whether this relationship …

Impact Of The 2003 Illinois Gaming Tax Rate Increase On Marketing Spending And Cross-State Substitution, Mikael Bengt Ahlgren

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The purpose of this research was to investigate three potential consequences related to the 2003 Illinois Gaming Tax rate restructuring. The first section presents the assessment of whether a higher tax rate motivated an Illinois casino operator to reduce of marketing/promotional expenditures in an attempt to negatively influence revenues. The second establishes if the surrounding state gaming operators reacted to the increased Gaming Tax rate in Illinois, by raising their marketing spending. The last section clarifies whether the changes to the Illinois Gaming Tax Schedule impacted gaming volumes in the neighboring/competing states of Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri.

The analysis relied …

Self-Image Congruence With Communication Channels And Its Impact On Reward Program Loyalty, Orie Berezan

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Loyalty programs have become products in and of themselves. They need to maintain member loyalty in order to survive. It is proposed that communication has a larger impact on program loyalty than previously thought. This study utilizes structural equation modeling (SEM) to evaluate the influence of communication typologies and dimensions on hotel reward program loyalty via self-image congruence, service quality, satisfaction, and trust. Moreover, this dissertation presents a communication identity model, which focuses on promoting hotel reward program loyalty via self-congruence with communication channels.

Newly discovered significant paths were found between: communication style and self-congruence with communication channels; self-congruence with …

Mega-Renters: Who Are They And How Do They Operate?, Stefan William Cosentino

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This dissertation investigates individuals who have acquired an extraordinary number of vacation ownership (timeshare) points or weeks and utilize their ownership for the purposes of generating income by renting their room reservations to the third parties. Individuals who operate in this context have been referred to as mega-renters on blogs such as the Timeshare Users Group website (Tug2.net), commonly referred to as Tug, which is an online forum where owners of timeshare share information about their ownership.

The timeshare or vacation ownership product is a leisure product that provides consumers luxury accommodations and or vacation experiences. Academic opinion based on …

A Phenomenological Study On The Leadership Development Of African American Women Executives In Academia And Business, Deanna Rachelle Davis

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the intersectionality of race and gender for African American women through their lived experiences of how they developed into leaders. This research study was designed to determine how the intersection of race and gender identities contributed to the elements of leadership development as perceived by eight African American female executives in academia and business. The researcher sought to explore strategies future leaders might utilize to address leadership development and career ascendency for African American females who aspire to leadership roles. A phenomenological research method was most appropriate for this research …

Evaluating The Impact Of A New Casino Loyalty Program On Gaming Volume, Ji Hye Min

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Using two years secondary data gathered from a Las Vegas hotel and casino, the effectiveness of a new casino loyalty program is examined on both daily slot coin-in and table game drop. Based on a theoretical model advanced to estimate the effects of a new loyalty program, simultaneous multiple regression analysis with Autoregressive Moving Average (ARMA) terms is used to analyze the data. The results indicate that the loyalty variable significantly increases slot coin-in at a rate of $302,455 per day, while table game drop is not significantly affected by the introduction of the new loyalty program. The coin-in increase …

The Non-Gaming Business Of The Gaming Industry: Evaluating The Contribution Of Non-Gaming Amenities At A Casino-Resort Property, Elena Shampaner-Ghiassi

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Previous studies on this topic show that all non-gaming amenities at a casino-resort property generate revenue in two ways. First, an amenity directly contributes to companies' overall profits when consumers spend on a particular amenity more than it costs the company to provide that amenity (Roehl, 2006). Second, these amenities can make an indirect contribution defined as the profit impact of an amenity on another profit center at the property (Dandurand & Ralenkotter, 1985); however, this contribution does not show directly on the amenity's financial statements (Roehl, 1996).

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the indirect gaming (both …

Room Service Principles And Practices: An Exploratory Study, Stanley Douglas Suboleski

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Room service is the delivery of food and beverage products to a guest's sleeping room in a hotel. It is an important, distinguishing characteristic and a necessary service for first-class and luxury hotels. Very little academic research has been conducted on the operating procedures of room service. This was an exploratory study that aimed at identifying the key principles and practices of room service operations in first-class and luxury hotels. This study used a mixed-method approach. Using content analysis on operating audits for room service from a range of hospitality companies, expert panel review, field testing, and analysis of variance …

Division I Student-Athlete Degree Choice Assessment, Tony Terrell

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Though the NCAA has established rules that require student-athletes to complete their college degree in an expeditious manner, the 40/60/80% rule may impinge on student-athlete academic decisions (i.e., degree choice).Yet limited empirical data exist regarding the nature and prevalence of student-athlete degree impingement. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate the Student-Athlete Degree Choice Questionnaire (SA-DCQ). The SA-DCQ assesses factors that influence Division I student-athletes' degree choice. An initial 40 item, 4 component SA-DCQ instrument was piloted with 170 Division I student-athletes. In order to develop scales, Principal Components Analysis (PCA) was conducted. PCA results yielded 13 …