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Members In Large Public Accounting Firms, January 2001, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Jan 2001

Members In Large Public Accounting Firms, January 2001, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.


Cpa Client Tax Letter, January/February/March 2001, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Jan 2001

Cpa Client Tax Letter, January/February/March 2001, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.


Adapting E-Business To The Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Curriculum In The New Economy: Development Of An E-Husiness Course With A Focus On Field-Based Projects, Peter H. Hackbert Jan 2001

Adapting E-Business To The Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Curriculum In The New Economy: Development Of An E-Husiness Course With A Focus On Field-Based Projects, Peter H. Hackbert

Journal of International Information Management

Organization creation separates entrepreneurship from other disciplines. In today's rapidly growing net economy and ever-changing entrepreneurial environment, discovering the behaviors of individuals who create new organizations, and observing the behaviors or organizational personnel who exploit new market opportunities within existing organizations are the foci of the behavioral school of entrepreneurship. Business schools that adapt curricula to examine the kinds of activities entrepreneurs perform, the information they process, with whom they must work, where, and how frequently may help describe the emerging needs of the current dynamic new economy. The following paper describes the development of an e-business entrepreneurship course with …


User Perceptions Of The Benefits Of Implementing An Erp System: A Case Study, Jaideep Motwani, Dinesh Mirchandani, Victor E. Sower Jan 2001

User Perceptions Of The Benefits Of Implementing An Erp System: A Case Study, Jaideep Motwani, Dinesh Mirchandani, Victor E. Sower

Journal of International Information Management

Given the large time and fitiancial commitment that an ERP project requires and the potential benefits it can offer if successfidly implemented, it is important to understand the factors that facilitate and inhibit the success ofEP,P implementation. By means of a case study of a global energy company, we first examine the factors that facilitate and inhibit the success of their ERP implementation. We draw on the theory of business process change when analyzing the implementation process. Next, we examine the perceptions non-management professional users of the ERP system (who were not members of the ERP implementation team) have of …


An Integrated Spatial Dss For Site Selection For Service Organizations In Developing Countries, Mehdi Beheshtian Jan 2001

An Integrated Spatial Dss For Site Selection For Service Organizations In Developing Countries, Mehdi Beheshtian

Journal of International Information Management

An Integrated Spatial Decision Support System (ISDSS) is developed for finding locations where people can access post offices with minimum travel time between their residences and the post offices and their next destinations. Location-allocation models may be used to determine sites for these transshipment nodes. Due to the nature of traffic and unstructured zoning and all other non-predictable variables, network models may not be applied to find the optimal solution. Instead a gravity model is used to find a solution, which both minimizes the number of post offices and minimizes before-and-after travel times. The result of this system is a …


A Fuzzy Expert System For Small Business Loan Processing, Vipul K. Gupta, Serkan Celtek Jan 2001

A Fuzzy Expert System For Small Business Loan Processing, Vipul K. Gupta, Serkan Celtek

Journal of International Information Management

In recent years, managerial applications of artificial intelligence, especially in the area of financial services, has received considerable attention. In this paper, a fiizzy logic expert system is developed for approvals of small business loans. Previous studies have used non-fuzzv expert systems. But the fuzzification of the variables used in a business loan approval decisionmaking promises more efficient results. Furthermore, another distinct feature of this paper is its focus on small business loans. CubiCalc fuzzy expert system shell is used to develop the expert system. Knowledge acquisition is made using the resources and expertise of a Small Business Development Center. …


Physical Security Models, Philosophies, And Context, Karen A. Forcht, S. E. Kruck Jan 2001

Physical Security Models, Philosophies, And Context, Karen A. Forcht, S. E. Kruck

Journal of International Information Management

This paper presents physical security of a computer facility within the context of a corporate environment. The context is established from several different perspectives. It first presents physical security philosophies and illustrates the philosophies via the Onion and Garlic Models. It defines a process for identifying and describing transition strategies between security levels. Once the models are defined, a Macro View of physical security is presented. This view discusses physical security goals and critical factors such as budget, monitoring and redundancy. With this context established, the Micro View is presented. Its focus is on information technology (IT) facilities that protect …


The Ethics Of Taxation, Fred Foldvary Jan 2001

The Ethics Of Taxation, Fred Foldvary

Faculty Publications

The judgment of taxation by ethical standards requires a universally applicable ethic. Such an ethic, natural moral law, can be derived using the Lockean framework based on equality. By this universal ethic, persons have property rights in their bodies and lives, and thus in their labor. The taxation of wages and of products of labor are therefore morally wrong. The equality premise, combined with the Lockean proviso on land, leads to the conclusion that public revenues may be justly obtained from the rental benefit of natural resources. Voluntary user fees and invasion penalties such as pollution charges are also morally …


Indiana State University Financial Report 2001, Indiana State University Jan 2001

Indiana State University Financial Report 2001, Indiana State University

Financial Reports

No abstract provided.


Football Media Guide 2001, Indiana State University Jan 2001

Football Media Guide 2001, Indiana State University

Intercollegiate Athletics

No abstract provided.


Irish Marketing Review, Vol.14, No. 1, 2001, Unknown Jan 2001

Irish Marketing Review, Vol.14, No. 1, 2001, Unknown

Issues

The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practice in marketing.


Education, Training And The Role Of Logistic Managers In Ireland, John Mangan, Orla Gregory Jan 2001

Education, Training And The Role Of Logistic Managers In Ireland, John Mangan, Orla Gregory

Articles

The paper is based on the analysis of the responses of a questionnaire survey of logistics managers working in manufacturing firms in Ireland. The objectives of the survey were to establish the educational and training needs of the practicing logistics manager. The questionnaire was designed to address issues including the various logistics practices undertaken by the respondents' company and the time spent by respondents on these activities; the skills currently required by logistics managers; the attitude to logistics in respondents' companies; the qualifications held and nature of training received by logistics managers; the effectiveness of training received; future training requirements …


Progress In Livestock Handling And Slaughter Techniques In The United States, 1970–2000, Temple Grandin Jan 2001

Progress In Livestock Handling And Slaughter Techniques In The United States, 1970–2000, Temple Grandin

State of the Animals 2001

Promoting better stockmanship is essential to improving animal welfare. Large meat-buying customers such as fast-food restaurants in the United States and supermarket chains in the United Kingdom can motivate great change by insisting that suppliers uphold better animal welfare standards. The greatest advances of the last thirty years have been the result of company audits. To maintain such progress, handling and stunning must be continually audited, measured, and managed. Handlers tend to revert to rough handling unless they are monitored and managed. An objective scoring system provides a standard that can be upheld. An overworked employee cannot do a good …


Farm Animals And Their Welfare In 2000, David Fraser, Joy Mench, Suzanne Millman Jan 2001

Farm Animals And Their Welfare In 2000, David Fraser, Joy Mench, Suzanne Millman

State of the Animals 2001

Farm animals have been a traditional concern of the modern animal protection movement. In the early 1800s, when the movement emerged as a significant sociopolitical force in the United Kingdom, its first priority was protection of farm animals, with particular emphasis on cattle and horses. Subsequently priorities changed, and throughout most of the 1900s, animal protectionism in Europe and the English-speaking world focused more strongly on the use of animals for scientific research and on the rescue of abandoned or ill-treated companion animals. Today, however, with vigorous public debate over animal agriculture and its effects, farm animals are re-emerging as …


Qualitative Assessment Of Animal Behaviour As An On-Farm Welfare-Monitoring Tool, Françoise Wemelsfelder, Alistair B. Lawrence Jan 2001

Qualitative Assessment Of Animal Behaviour As An On-Farm Welfare-Monitoring Tool, Françoise Wemelsfelder, Alistair B. Lawrence

Sentience Collection

There is a growing need to monitor the health and welfare of farm animals, and to develop methods which do so efficiently and reliably. A crucial problem with current methods is the integration of separate measurements taken during farm visits into accurate judgements of an animal’s overall welfare state. This paper proposes that the qualitative assessment of animal behaviour may serve as an integrative methodology which could guide the interpretation of other, more detailed welfare measurements. Recent research has demonstrated qualitative behaviour assessment to be reliable and repeatable under controlled experimental conditions. The paper concludes with a discussion of ways …


Tail Docking Dairy Cattle: Effects On Cow Cleanliness And Udder Health, Cassandra B. Tucker, David Fraser, Daniel M. Weary Jan 2001

Tail Docking Dairy Cattle: Effects On Cow Cleanliness And Udder Health, Cassandra B. Tucker, David Fraser, Daniel M. Weary

Farm Animal Husbandry Collection

To determine whether tail docking would influence cow cleanliness and udder health in a free-stall system, we monitored milking cows after half the animals in a herd were docked. A sample of 223 docked and 190 undocked cows (reducing to 169 and 105 over the study as cows were dried off) were monitored for 8 wk. Cow cleanliness was scored in two areas: along the spine, and the rump adjacent to the tail at 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8 wk after docking. Cleanliness was evaluated by counting squares that were soiled (0 to 14 on a 5- × 17.5-cm …


Does The Trend Toward E-Business Call For Changes In The Fundamental Concepts Of Information Systems? A Debate, Steven Alter, Phillip Ein-Dor, M. Lynne Markus, Judy Scott Jan 2001

Does The Trend Toward E-Business Call For Changes In The Fundamental Concepts Of Information Systems? A Debate, Steven Alter, Phillip Ein-Dor, M. Lynne Markus, Judy Scott

Business Analytics and Information Systems

A debate at ICIS 2000 asked whether the trend toward e-business calls for changes in the fundamental concepts of information systems. This article summarizes viewpoints presented in the debate. It also presents audience feedback in the form of a vote about whether new concepts are needed and selected comments submitted by the audience about key issues in the debate. Among others, these issues include questions about what are the fundamental concepts of IS, different views of about the meaning and implications of ebusiness, and questions about the nature of the user in e-business.


Which Life Cycle -- Work System, Information System, Or Software?, Steven Alter Jan 2001

Which Life Cycle -- Work System, Information System, Or Software?, Steven Alter

Business Analytics and Information Systems

This article presents the work system life cycle (WSLC) model, according to which a work system, an information system, or a software product passes through one or more iterations of four phases: initiation, development, implementation, and operation and maintenance. Although this descriptive model is both clear enough to understand readily and specific eno ugh to apply easily, it encompasses a variety of other models commonly used to describe information system life cycles, organizational change processes, projects, and the life cycles of software products. The explicit inclusion of both an operation and maintenance phase and iterations allows it to cover both …


Administrative Ethics In Nonprofit Organizations, Michael O'Neill Jan 2001

Administrative Ethics In Nonprofit Organizations, Michael O'Neill

Public and Nonprofit Administration

No abstract provided.


Cpa Expert 2001 Fall, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants Jan 2001

Cpa Expert 2001 Fall, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Newsletters

No abstract provided.


Cpa Expert 2001 Spring, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants Jan 2001

Cpa Expert 2001 Spring, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Newsletters

No abstract provided.


Cpa Expert 2001 Summer, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants Jan 2001

Cpa Expert 2001 Summer, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Newsletters

No abstract provided.


Cpa Letter, 2001, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants Jan 2001

Cpa Letter, 2001, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Newsletters

No abstract provided.


Practicing Cpa, Vol. 25 No. 1, January 2001, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Jan 2001

Practicing Cpa, Vol. 25 No. 1, January 2001, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.


Members In Medium Public Accounting Firms, January 2001, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Jan 2001

Members In Medium Public Accounting Firms, January 2001, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.


Performance Measures News & Views, Volume 1, Number 1, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Jan 2001

Performance Measures News & Views, Volume 1, Number 1, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.


Acsec Update, Volume 5, Number 2 January 2001, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting Standards Executive Committee Jan 2001

Acsec Update, Volume 5, Number 2 January 2001, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting Standards Executive Committee

Newsletters

No abstract provided.


Integrating Traditional Research-Journal Based Sources With Trade And Web-Based Sources In Coursework, Kathy E. Clarke, Harry L. Reif Dr. Jan 2001

Integrating Traditional Research-Journal Based Sources With Trade And Web-Based Sources In Coursework, Kathy E. Clarke, Harry L. Reif Dr.

Libraries

Due to the rapidly changing nature of telecommunications, it is challenging to be able to introduce timely topics into this curriculum. At the same time, educators are challenged with preparing students to function in the workplace where change is a given, as on average workers spend an average of 9.25 hours per week looking for or analyzing data [4]. Initiatives to keep instruction relevant and prepare students to be information literate mandate that students be able to discover, digest, and put into context new information about technologies. This skill is developed and enhanced through the use of research projects. This …


Employee Relations Ethics And The Changing Nature Of The American Workforce, Chong W. Kim, Dennis Emmett, Andrew Sikula Sr. Jan 2001

Employee Relations Ethics And The Changing Nature Of The American Workforce, Chong W. Kim, Dennis Emmett, Andrew Sikula Sr.

Management Faculty Research

Much is being written today about the changing nature of the American workforce. This article summarizes 10 of these changes: (a) global competition; (b) the changing skills of work; (c) the declining impact of unions; (d) the altered human composition of the workforce; (e) the effects of continuous improvement, downsizing, and reengineering; (f) the growing use of part-time employees; (g) the widening income gap; (h) lessened employer and employee loyalty and commitment; (i) early retirement programs; and (j) telecommunications and virtual employees. Rather than just identifying and documenting these trends, this article discusses the ethical implications of such movements. In …


Latino Access To Health Care: The Role Of Insurance, Managed Care, And Institutional Barriers, J. Emilio Carrillo, Fernando M. Trevino, Joseph R. Betancourt, Alberto Coustasse Jan 2001

Latino Access To Health Care: The Role Of Insurance, Managed Care, And Institutional Barriers, J. Emilio Carrillo, Fernando M. Trevino, Joseph R. Betancourt, Alberto Coustasse

Management Faculty Research

The health care system in the United States is the most expensive and yet arguably among the least cost effective in the developed world (Anderson, 1998). Despite the highest per person health care spending among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations, the United States still ranks below many along a variety of health indicators (Woolhandler & Himmelstein, 1991). In a complicated health care system where the rules are many and economic forces drive both structure and function, the needs of vulnerable populations inevitably suffer. This chapter explores the consequences of these market forces on a vulnerable population--Latinos …