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Students And Retirement Saving Predictors, Christopher Michael Miller Jan 2008

Students And Retirement Saving Predictors, Christopher Michael Miller

UNF Undergraduate Honors Theses

Over the past century Americans have significantly increased personal income yet decreased personal savings. The researchers in this study examine college students habits and beliefs concerning saving for retirement. To our knowledge there is no published data about retirement savings among Americans in this age group. We try to determine whether a student's retirement savings beliefs and habits can be predicted. We designed a model examining the student's risk-aversion level, financial background, general savings habits, financial literacy and attitudes toward saving. We found that our overall model is predictive of a student's beliefs and habits in regards to saving for …


Towards Non-Prescriptive Issues: A Teaching Framework For Selecting Marketing Dissertation Topics, Conor Horan Jan 2006

Towards Non-Prescriptive Issues: A Teaching Framework For Selecting Marketing Dissertation Topics, Conor Horan

Conference papers

There is a significant absence in academic literature, textbooks and practical teaching tools for advising or guiding student learning, in a practical non-prescriptive manner, toward topic selection and development. Prescriptive or rational approaches, taken by many research methods textbooks, are not adequate or sufficient when teaching this important first stage in the research process. Non-prescriptive approaches describing manageable steps should be researched more to fill this pedagogic gap. This paper attempts to promote academic discussion on a pedagogic gap that is broadly overlooked, and to examine how marketing and business academics can better instruct dissertation students in the area of …


Doctoral Research [1988, Vol. 15, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1988

Doctoral Research [1988, Vol. 15, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

The dissertation abstracted is: From Conflict to Consensus: The American Institute of Accountants and the Professionalization of Public Accountancy, 1886-1940 by Paul Joseph Miranti, Jr.


Doctoral Research [1987, Vol. 14, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1987

Doctoral Research [1987, Vol. 14, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

The dissertation abstracted is: S. Paul Garner: A Study of Selected Contributions to the Accounting Profession by Robert Michael Garner


Doctoral Research [1987, Vol. 14, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1987

Doctoral Research [1987, Vol. 14, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

The dissertation abstracted is: Understanding Accounting in its Social and Historical Context: The Case of Cost Accounting in Britain 1914-1925 by Anne Loft.


Doctoral Research [1986, Vol. 13, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1986

Doctoral Research [1986, Vol. 13, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

Dissertations abstracted are: Accounting for Inflation: German Theory of the 1920s by Oliver Finley Graves; The Evolution of French Accounting Thought As Reflected By The Successive Uniform Systems (Plans Comptables Generaux by Anne Fortin); The Accounting Professions Specifications of Procedures and Actions Following Initiations of Selected Legal Actions Involving Allegations of Illegal Or Improper Management Acts: 1939-1978 by Robert M. Bracken; Economy and Society in Brescia During The Venetian Domination, 1426-1645 by Joanne Marie Ferraro; Poverty in Three English Towns, 1560-1640; A Comparative Approach by Thorold John Tronrud; Taylorism in France, 1904-1920: The Impact of Scientific Management On Factory Relations …


Doctoral Research [1985, Vol. 12, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1985

Doctoral Research [1985, Vol. 12, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

Dissertations abstracted are: An Examination of the Role of Eric Louis Kohler in the Development of the Accounting Profession by Nancy Kay Adams Humma; Abuse of Power: New York City and the Formation of Municipal Law, 1846-1866 by Jeffrey Wood Hoyt; Corporate Institutions, Revolution, and the State: Lille from Louis XIV to Napoleon by Gail Margaret Bossenga; Taxing Heavens Storehouse: The Szechwan Tea Monopoly and the Tsinghai Horse Trade, 1074-1224 by Paul J. Smith; Patronage and Justice in the Pipe Roll of 1130 by Stephanie Lleueen Moders; Merchants, Miners, Moneylenders: The Habilitacion System in the Norte Chico, Chile: 1780-1850 by …


Doctoral Research [1985, Vol. 12, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1985

Doctoral Research [1985, Vol. 12, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

Dissertations abstracted are: Medieval Records of Ombersley Manor (Rentals and Court Rolls, 1300-1500) by Gabriele Pietro Scardellato; Gods, Godsagare Och Landbor 1450-1520: Studier i de senmedel-tida fralsegodsens funktion (Estates, Estate Holders and Tenants 1450-1520. Studies in the Function of the Estates Belonging to the Nobility) by I. M. Munktell; The Politics of Tax Reform in France, 1906-1926 by Stephen Walker Owen; Lonen en Bedrijfsresultaten bij de Nederlandse steenkolenmijnon-dernemingen in de Gemeenschappelijke Steenkolemarkt van de E.G.K.S. (Wages and Profits/Losses in the Dutch Coal Mines in the Common Coal Market of the European Coal and Steel Community) by J. M. G. Pieters; …


Doctoral Research [1984, Vol. 11, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1984

Doctoral Research [1984, Vol. 11, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

Dissertations abstracted are: Die Muenzpraegung des Kaisers Nerva by E. Szaivert; The Economics of Food Production on Roman Imperial Estates in North Africa by Dennis Patrick Kehoe; A Retreat from the Wilderness: Pattern in the Domestic Environments of Southeastern New England, 1630-1730 by Robert Blair St. George; The Workman's Fate. The Scanty Bread. Living Conditions of the Workers at Baaseland/Naes Ironworks 1725-1807 by I. Floystad; The Intensification of Community, Society, and Economy in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Gloucestershire (University of New South Wales by David Peter Rollison; The Mills of Manayunk: Early Industrialization and Social Conflict in the Philadelphia Region, 1787-1837 …


Doctoral Research [1984, Vol. 11, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1984

Doctoral Research [1984, Vol. 11, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

Dissertations abstracted are: Bank Behavior, Regulation and Economic Development: California 1860-1910 by Roger Charles Lister; Land Ownership in the Economic Development of Ghana, 1945-1975 by N.W. Ababio-Appah; Interaction Between Central Government Recurrent Expenditures, Revenue Constraint and External Receipts in Less Developed Countries: The Case of Ghana: 1956-78 by Alberto Dogbey Kobla Agbonyitor; Fiscal Stress in American Cities by Karen Lee Shelley; A Comparison of the Ability of Financial Ratios Based on Different Accounting Standards to Predict Bankruptcy by Farouk Wasef Elkharouf; A Comparison of the Advocations of Henry Sweeney in Stabilized Accounting to Recent Price Level/Replacement Cost Activity by Walker …


Doctoral Research [1983, Vol. 10, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1983

Doctoral Research [1983, Vol. 10, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

Dissertations abstracted are: An Investigation of the Wealth Impacts of the 1933 and 1934 Securities Acts' Financial Disclosure Requirements by Chee Woo Chow; The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977: An Inquiry into the Accounting Provisions of the Act Including a Study of Explicit Responses by Corporations by Kenneth Lester Johnson; An Empirical Investigation of Trade or Business Attributes of Quasi-Business Ventures Under the Internal Revenue Code by Samuel Lafayette Lett; The Impact of Taxation on Accounting by Amram Aharoni; An Investigation into the Taxation of Undistributed Income Sections 951 Through 964 of the Internal Revenue Code: The Controlled Corporation …


Doctoral Research [1983, Vol. 10, No.1], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1983

Doctoral Research [1983, Vol. 10, No.1], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

Dissertation abstracted are: Technology and Organization: Steel Rail Innovation and Railroad Survivorship in the American Manufacturing Region, 1860-1890 by David Paul Marple; The State and the Beginnings of the Railroad Grandes Lignes Network in France, 1820-1842 by John Robert Fleckles; The Natural Rubber Economy of Thailand by Prachaya Jumpasut; An Economic Analysis of Thailand's Rice Trade by Sorrayuth Meenaphant; Capital Imports in Economic Development: The Korean Case by Chang Min Shin; Industry Structure and Degree of Foreign Ownership: A Case Study of Foreign Direct Investment in Korea by Young Yoo; Ecuador's National Development: Government Finances and the Search for Public …


Doctoral Research [1982, Vol. 9, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1982

Doctoral Research [1982, Vol. 9, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

Dissertations abstracted are: Salt-Making, Merchants and Markets: The Role of a Critical Resource in the Development of Maya Civilization by Anthony Parshall Andrews; Military and Financial Government in France, 1648-1 661 by Peter Jonathan Berger; The Silk-Weavers of Lyon During the French Revolution, 1786-1 796 by David Lyman Longfellow; The Royal Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico 1764-1810 by David Lorne McWatters; Business and Society in Late Colonial Mexico City by John Edward Kicza; The Adoption of Process Innovations in the Peruvian Textile Industry: Organizational Determinants and Sources of Relative Advantage by Fernando Robles; Carman G. Blough: A Study of Selected …


Doctoral Research [1982, Vol. 9, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1982

Doctoral Research [1982, Vol. 9, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

Dissertations abstracted are: Treasure of the Land of Darkness: A Study of the Fur Trade and its Significance for Medieval Russia (X-XVI Centuries) by Janet L. B. Martin; The North American Fur Trade 1804-1821: A Study in the Life-Cycle of a Duopoly by Ann Martina Carlos; Financing and Marketing Brazilian Export Agriculture: The Coffee Factors of Rio de Janeiro, 1850-1888 by Joseph Earl Sweigart; Development of Brazilian Industrial Enterprise: A Historical Perspective by Gerald Dinu Reiss; The Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in America: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1672-1829 by Gary B. Kulik


Doctoral Research [1981, Vol. 8, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1981

Doctoral Research [1981, Vol. 8, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

Dissertations abstracted are: Money and Clientship in the Ancient Irish Laws by Marilyn Eleanor Gerriets; The Use of Accounting Records of the Harden General Store 1860-1900 to Study Price Fluctuations, Barter and Changes in Consumption by Bobby Eugene Smiley; The Impact of the American Civil War on the Pattern of International Trade and on the British Money Market by William Wesley Nye; Foreign Trade, Foreign Capital and the Peripheralization of the Ottoman Empire, 1830-1913 by Sevket Pamuk; The Impacts of the Multinational Oil Corporations on Nigeria's Economic Growth: Theoretical and Empirical Explorations by Christian `Dare Odofin; he Role of Investment …


Doctoral Research [1981, Vol. 8, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1981

Doctoral Research [1981, Vol. 8, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

Dissertations abstracted are: The Formation of Fiscal Policy in the Reign of Louis XIV: The Example of Nicolas Desmaretz, Controller General of Finances by Gary Bruce McCollim; The Cincinnati Branch of the Second Bank of the United States and Its Effect on the Local Economy, 1817-1836 by Marilynn Melton Larew; The Business History of the Antebellum Wisconsin Newspaper, 1833-1860: A Study of Concentration of Ownership and Diversity of Views by Carolyn Stewart Dyer; Money, Sheep, and Economic Crisis in Argentina, 1852-1900: Questions About The Principles of Economics by Jeffrey Alan Lamia; Men, Money, Machines: Studies Comparing Colliery Operations and Factors …


Doctoral Research [1980, Vol. 7, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1980

Doctoral Research [1980, Vol. 7, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

Dissertations abstracted are: Investor Experience in Corporate Bonds, 1950-1974 by Robert James Hartl; Private External Borrowing: The Brazilian Experience by Alkimar Ribeiro Moura; The Politics of the Municipal Debt Structure in New York City by Sylvan Gary Feldstein; The Iranian Budgetary System and Patterns of Government Expenditures, 1960-1976 by Mohammed Reza Shahroodi; An Investigation Into Accountant-Client Privileged Communications in the Courtroom by George Stevenson Smith; The Nature and Extent of Auditor Liability to the Third Party in the Performance of the Audit Function During the Period 1972 Through 1976 by James Albert Kimbell, Jr.


Doctoral Research [1980, Vol. 7, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1980

Doctoral Research [1980, Vol. 7, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

Dissertations abstracted are: A Technical and Business Revolution: American Woolens to 1832 by Elizabeth Hitz; The Financial Panic of 1857: Two Monetary Approaches to the Economic History of the United States, 1842-59 by Edmundo Olvera Acosta; An Historical Analysis of the Events Leading to the Establishment of the Investment Tax Credit and Its Modification Through June 30, 1977 by Clyde Lee Posey; Capital Formation and the Investment Tax Credit: An Empirical Study , by Haroldene Fowler Wunder; Social Responsibility: Organizational Policy Evaluative Criteria with California Savings and Loan Field Test Case Study ) by Dolores Ann Barsellotti; One University's Budget: …


Doctoral Research [1979, Vol. 6, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1979

Doctoral Research [1979, Vol. 6, No. 1], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

Dissertations abstracted are: The Evolution of Accounting Thought and Practices Related to Bond Refunding by George Howard Neal; Banking in California: Some Evidence on Structure, 1878-1905 by Lynne Margaret Pierson Doti; The National Banks and American Economic Development, 1870- 1900 by Helen Hill Updike; An Investigation of Federal Farm Income Taxation: Its Development with Attention to Congressional Intent and its Effects on the Georgia Egg Industry by Michael Lynn Holland; The Impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1969 Upon Charitable Contributions of Ordinary Income Property by John Martin Strefeler; Evolution of Financial Audit Criteria with Emphasis on Selected Legal …


Doctoral Research [1979, Vol. 6, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1979

Doctoral Research [1979, Vol. 6, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

Dissertations abstracted are: Taxation in Bretagne, 1598-1648 by James Barry Collins; The Accumulation of Capital and the Subsistence Agriculture in Brazil Since 1889 by Roberto Jose Moreira; Canadian Business & The 'Reform' Process in the 1930s by Alvin Finkel; An Econometric Study of Canadian Capital Formation By Industry by Cham-Kau Tam; An Indian Structural Model of Inflation: An Analysis of Nature and Causes of lnflation From 1951-52 To 1967-68 by Rohini Vishnu Divecha; Price Expectations in the 1860s And 1890s by Brenda Joyce Kahn; Determinants of the Dollar-Sterling Rate 1919-25, and Some Related Issues by Emmanuel John Zervoudakis.


Doctoral Research [1978, Vol. 5, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1978

Doctoral Research [1978, Vol. 5, No. 2], Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

Dissertations abstracted are: Toward A Theory Of Evolution Of Selected Accounting Ideas by Man Chand Maloo; The Development of Income Reporting in the United States by Willard Harold Galliart; The Public Accounting Profession-The Impact of External Environmental Factors From 1900-1971 by Ralph Wylie Frey; Historical Critique of the Development of the Federal Income Tax From 1939-1954 And Its Influence Upon Accounting Theory and Practice by Melvin Theodore McClure; A History of the Issues and Problems Surrounding Goodwill in Accounting by Hugh Peter Hughes; General Purchasing Power Financial Statements-A Behavioral Study by Kenneth Ray Lambert; The Role of Accounting in the …


Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts, Maureen Helena Berry Jan 1978

Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts, Maureen Helena Berry

Accounting Historians Journal

Dissertations abstracted are: Study of Governmental Accounting in China: With Special Reference to the Sung Dynasty (960-1279) by Philip Yuen-Ko Fu; An Analysis of the Development and Nature of Accounting Principles in Japan ( by Yukio Fujita; The Evolution of Selected Annual Corporate Financial Reporting Practices in Canada: 1900-1970 ) by George Joseph Murphy;The Evolution of Accounting in Canada by Harvey Mann; A History of the CPA Profession in Colorado by John Matthew Hunthausen; A Study of the Development of the Certified Public Accounting Profession in Kansas by Eldon Curtis Lewis;The Development of the CPA Profession in Mississippi by James …


Doctoral Research [1976, Vol. 3, Nos. 1-4], Hans Johnson Jan 1976

Doctoral Research [1976, Vol. 3, Nos. 1-4], Hans Johnson

Accounting Historians Journal

Abstracts for the following dissertations are provided: The Effect of Scientific Management on the Development of the Standard Cost System by Marc Epstein. The Archive of Laches: Prosperous Farmers of the Fayum in the Second Century by Whitney S. Bagnall; Lukens, 1850-1870: A Case Study in the Mid-Nineteenth Century American Iron Industry by Julian C. Skaggs; Historical Development of Human Resources as a Value in Financial Accounting by Joseph E. Krebs; An Economic Survey of the Early Byzantine Church by William N. Zeisel, Jr.; The Professionalization of Public Accounting in America: A Comparative Anlysis of the Contributions of Selected Practitioners …


Doctoral Research [1975, Vol. 2, Nos. 1-4], Hans Johnson Jan 1975

Doctoral Research [1975, Vol. 2, Nos. 1-4], Hans Johnson

Accounting Historians Journal

Abstracts of: The Behavioral Implications of the Stewardship Concept and Its Effects on Financial Reporting by Rosita Chen; Product Costing Under Conditions of Idle Plant Capacity by Edwin Bartenstein; The Impact of Blue-sky Regulations on the New Issues Market for Corporate Securities: Implications and Evidence by Courtenay Stone.