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Ndikimi I Investimeve Të Huaja Direkte Në Zhvillimin E Shtetit, Gresa Krasniqi

Theses and Dissertations

Investimet e huaja direkte janë një segment shumë i rëndësishëm ekonomik i një vendi, për arsye që dërgojnë në rritje të ekonomisë.IHD-të ofrojnë rritje të punësimit, ndërmarrjet e huaja duke punësuar shtetasit e vendeve në zhvillim ofrojnë punësim. Në mungesë të këtij investimi, këto mundësi punësimi nuk do të ishin në dispozicion te shumë vende në zhvillim.

Këto investime në vitet e fundit kanë shënuar rritje të dukshme në të gjithë botën, kjo për shkak se shumë vende, sidomos vendet në zhvillim shohin IHD-të si një element të rëndësishëm për zhvillimin ekonomik. Investimet e huaja direkte janë një burim efektiv …

Roli Dhe Rëndësia E Investimeve Të Huaja Direkte Në Zhvillimin Ekonomik Rasti I Kosovës” : Analizë E Periudhës 2007-2016, Marigona Zymberi

Theses and Dissertations

Investimet e Huaja Direkte janë një fenomen relativisht i ri, i cili ka pasur një zhvillim të hovshëm në rritje në vitet në vazhdim. Nxitur nga ndryshimi teknologjik, konkurrenca globale dhe liberalizimi i tregjeve, investimet e huaja direkte luajnë një rol kyç në procesin e integrimit global ekonomik. Ato krijojnë efekte si në vendet pritëse ashtu dhe në ato investuese. Efektet në vendet pritëse janë të rëndësishme si për nga shumëllojshmëria e tyre ashtu dhe për nga rëndësia ekonomike, politike dhe sociale që ato gjenerojnë. Përfitimi i këtyre efekteve nuk vjen automatikisht por ndikohet nga realizimi i disa kushteve specifike. …

Ndikimi I Politikave Fiskale Në Ndërmarrjet E Vogla Dhe Të Mesme Në Kosovë, Elfije Hoti

Theses and Dissertations

Ky studim adreson çështjen e impaktit të politikës fiskale në zbutjen e papunësisë, rritjen e investimeve dhe të konsumit për të gjeneruar rritje ekonomike të qëndrueshme. Ndër të tjera, ky punim do të sqarojë se çka janë politikat fiskale, ndikimi i tyre në ndërmarrjet e vogla dhe të mesme, dhe aplikimi i tyre në përputhje me legjislacionin e shtetit dhe politikat monetare.

Ndikimi i politikave fiskale ka qenë gjithmonë temë kryesore në ekonomi, pasiqë mirëqenia dhe stabiliteti politik varen nga ekuilibri ekonomik. Politikat fiskale përbënjë një komponentë të politikës ekonomike shtetërore që shfrytëzohet për qëllime makroekonomike për të ndikuar në …

Roli Dhe Funksioni I Bankës Qendrore Të Kosovës Në Stabilitetin Financiar, Avdullah Hoxha

Theses and Dissertations

Banka Qëndrore e Kosovës është autoritet i pavarur kombëtar që udhëheq politikën monetare, rregullon bankat komerciale dhe siguron shërbime financiare duke përfshirë hulumtime ekonomike e që e ka të rregulluar me ligjet e kushtetutës së Kosovës. Qëllimet janë të stabilizojnë monedhën e vendit, të mbajnë papunësinë e ulët dhe të parandalojnë inflacionin në mbarë vendin. Në kuadër të këtij studimi në fillim është analizuar kuptimi i bankës qëndore në përgjithësi me fokus të veçant është analizuar roli dhe funksioni i saj. Qëllimi i këtij studimi është përshkrimi dhe vështrimi sa më i hollësishëm i Bankës Qëndrore në Kosovë, rolin e …

Avansimi I Zhvillimit Të Prokurimit Publik Në Nivelin Lokal Në Republikën Kosovë, Es’Heme Beka

Theses and Dissertations

Bota e teknologjisë po ndryshon me shpejtësi dhe shkathtësitë e fuqisë punëtore duhet përshtatur me teknologjitë e reja dhe ndryshimin e formave të organizimit të punës pikërisht në këtë fushë kaq të ndjeshme siç është prokurimi publik. Për të arritur një sukses duhet ndjekur trajnime për zbatimin e ligjit te prokurimit publik , rregulloreve, udhëzimeve, dhe vendimeve të cilat lëshohen nga organi përgjegjës në Kosovë siç është KRPP. Arsimi fillestar është themeli, por mësimi i vazhdueshëm gjatë gjithë jetës është i domosdoshëm për të gjithë zyrtaret e prokurimit për të përparuar në përdorimin e parasë publike në mënyrën me të …

The Cost Viability Of Gs Employees Versus Military Personnel, Elena Chavez

Accounting Undergraduate Honors Theses

The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the cost viability of federal government employees versus military personnel with a focus on the security guards at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. This analysis seeks cost viability from two perspectives. The first perspective is the cost of each personnel to the Army through total compensation value analysis. The second perspective is the cost viability to work as a federal employee versus enlisting in the Army. This perspective was analyzed through gross, disposable, and discretionary income analysis. The analysis was designed to shed light on the disparity in pay between the two types …

Minority Entrepreneurship: How Access To Capital And Strategic Decisions Affect Success, Thea Winston

Accounting Undergraduate Honors Theses

Many researchers have discovered that entrepreneurship is a source of financial freedom that if done successfully will ensure wealth for generations. With that idea in mind, minorities have seized that opportunity in record numbers with hopes that they will become prosperous. However, in addition to the increased success rate of minority-owned businesses, there is a rise in the failure rate of minority-owned businesses specifically in the African-American community. In this thesis, we will conduct a case study of three entrepreneurs at different stages that supports the theory that access to capital and strategic decisions affect the success of minority entrepreneurs. …

Business Plan: The Coffee Project, Lauren Porter

Accounting Undergraduate Honors Theses

Executive Summary

The Coffee Project will be a specialty coffee shop in downtown Bartlesville, OK offering direct-trade coffee, tea, simple meals, and TCP merchandise. The shop will offer the standard specialty coffee drinks like cappuccinos, lattes, macchiatos and cortados, as well as shots of flavors and a selection of milk alternatives. In achieving its mission to provide great specialty coffee with a cause to Bartlesville, a portion of the profits from every food or drink purchase at The Coffee Project will be donated to local and regional charity organizations of the customers’ choosing. All net profits from TCP merchandise will …

Technology Advancement Influence In Accounting And Information System Fields, Shannon Gordon

Accounting Undergraduate Honors Theses

This research serves to relate the accounting and information technology fields. The information in the research documents changes in the accounting and information technology fields, and how the fields are expected to change in the coming years. The research also discuss the relationship between the accounting and information technology fields. The topics on the ideal accounting candidates for employers and the expectation gap between graduates skills and employers’ expectations are also discussed. Careers in accounting and information systems and also similar and different basic skills of both fields are documented in the research.

The changes in accounting are influenced by …

The Impact Of Music On Task Performance At Work, Courtney Wilson

Accounting Undergraduate Honors Theses

Music plays a big role in the daily life of an average person. Humans are almost constantly exposed to music in some form whether it is through commercials, movies, telephone music, or a variety of other sources. The centrality of music to life can be observed across cultures because music appeals to people’s “emotions and contributes to [an individual’s] ability to learn and remember information” (Brown and Brown, 1997, p. 349).

Music’s centrality to everyday life has inspired researchers to study the influence and impact that music has on individuals. Research that has been conducted over the past century has …

A Strategic Approach To Employee Retention At Nebraska Families Collaborative, Rachel Walters

Capstone Experience: Master of Public Health

Nebraska Families Collaborative (NFC) is a nonprofit organization that supports children and families who are at risk, in eastern Nebraska. They offer a variety of services with the goal of moving children toward safety, permanency and well-being. Organizations such as NFC rely heavily on the commitment of the employees to carry out their mission, as do many other non-profit social service agencies across the country. The overall goal of the project was to identify reasons for high turnover and to identify potential solutions to reduce turnover and increase retention in the workplace at NFC. The main objectives were to analyze …

Win In India: An Analysis Of Market Entry Strategy Into India’S Food And Beverage Industry, Grayson Greer

Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to examine four different modes of entry when selecting a market entry strategy in an emerging market and learn how to succeed in the world’s largest growing market, India. The introduction chapter discusses the development of international business and why companies choose to expand internationally, honing in on market entry selection in emerging markets. Market entry strategy is broken down into two primary components: county or market selection and mode of entry. Chapter two introduces India as the emerging superpower of the 21st century and conducts both a PESTEL and Porters Five Forces analysis …

A Comparative Analysis Of Personal Financial Literacy, Connor Davey

Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to provide a comparative analysis of the financial state of modern American college graduates to similar groups of graduates. From this comparative analysis, we can see which aspects of Personal Financial Literacy need to be emphasized to achieve success as a new college graduate. First, a comparison was made between modern American graduates and American graduates from Generation X. It was found that modern graduates have just slightly more student loan debt than Gen X graduates, despite having significantly higher tuition rates. This debt amount, over time, would not be a huge concern for …

Assessing Nonprofit Ceo Compensation: Does The Media Provide A Fair Perspective?, Amanda Atchison

Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses

The media plays an active role in forming external stakeholders’ perception of business matters. When it comes to nonprofit business, the media is a source of information that, in theory, works to bridge the gap between external stakeholders’ unfamiliarity with nonprofit regulation and what is actually required of the nonprofit sector. This concept is especially present regarding the topic of nonprofit CEO compensation. The goal of this paper is to discuss how media addresses nonprofit CEO compensation and to determine whether or not the media fairly portrays the entire story by assessing current data along with trends in historical data, …

Financial Institutions And Systemic Risk: The Case Of Bank Of America 2006-2017, Jeffrey Mills

Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses

This paper explores systemic risk and financial institutions before, during, and after the financial crisis. It focuses on Bank of America the 2^nd largest bank in the United States by assets. The paper includes an introduction to systemic risk and a review of literature on systemic risk. A few traditional measures of systemic risk will be defined, such as nonperforming loans, return on assets, return on equity, earnings per share, net interest margin, and capital adequacy ratio. Finally, the paper will take a look at how these traditional measures specifically relate to Bank of America from 2006 to 2017. …

Cryptocurrency: The Argument For Its Allocation Within The Traditional Investor's Portfolio, Nicholas Costanza

Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses

This research explores the significance of cryptocurrencies upon the “traditional” investor’s portfolio, particularly elaborating on the potential returns and advocating for its allocation within any balanced (or diversified) portfolio. Cryptocurrencies are a relatively new asset and are still considered to be extremely risky. They are characterized by ever-fluctuating prices, ongoing government regulation, and overall market skepticism. However, the potential of major cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, and Litecoin) to produce major returns cannot be easily ignored. This paper builds upon the research of those in academia, as well as highly respected investors. The hope is to outline both the pros and …

Quantifying The Return On Investment Of After School Programming, Ayesha Patel

Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses

Each fiscal year, there is a battle on Capitol Hill as lawmakers wrestle with reconciling political promises to financial reality. This process is completed with the goal of efficiently allocating scarce resources, in this case tax dollars and other government revenue, across the needs of the over 325 million diverse residents of the United States. Some budget items garner almost universal support, such as defense funding, infrastructure and education. While individuals may differ on how much funding each of these causes should receive, almost all agree that they should be funded by the federal government. Other budget items, such as …

Effective Resource Utilization In Arkansas Public Schools, Ryan Sanders

Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

Teacher pay in Arkansas public schools varies widely from district to district across the state. This pay discrepancy is driven by both the funds available to a district and by how these funds are allocated. There is a standard per student budget given to districts across the state, but this budget can be supplemented by additional property taxes collected on property within a district. This leaves districts with more highly valued property at an advantage. Districts are free to allocate their budget for teacher pay as they see fit, with constraints on number of students per teacher and minimum teacher …

2018 Study Of San Diego County Local Child Care Needs And Barriers: Data And Insights For San Diego County Individualized Child Care Subsidy Pilot And Local Child Care Policies, Tessa Tinkler, Mary Jo Schumann, Meghan Kelly

Youth, Education, and Literacy

This report, prepared by the Caster Center, is a study of local child care conditions in San Diego County and includes an analysis of the demographics of families in need of child care; San Diego County’s self-sufficiency income level; availability of, and enrollment in, subsidized child care; and the cost of providing child care. This report originated from a required independent analysis of local child care conditions for Bill AB377, authorizing the County of San Diego to develop a pilot child care subsidy plan that takes into account the county’s unique demographic and economic environment.

Does Migration Cause Income Inequality?, Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny

Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center Research

Inequality has been rising across the world in recent decades. Latin America has been an exception to what otherwise seems to be the prevalent trend in the U.S., Europe and Asia. In the U.S. the rise in inequality since the 1970s has coincided with the rise in Mexican immigration. In Mexico, inequality has been declining since the mid-1990s, a period during which emigration to the U.S. first increased to historic highs and then declined steeply.

Our review of the literature suggests that low-skilled immigration to the U.S., much of it from Mexico, has only played a minor role in rising …

¿La Migración Causa Desigualdad De Ingresos?, Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny

Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center Research

La desigualdad ha aumentado en décadas recientes a lo largo del mundo. Latinoamérica ha sido una excepción a lo que, por lo demás, parece ser la tendencia prevalente en los Estados Unidos, Europa y Asia. En los Estados Unidos, la acentuación de la desigualdad desde los años 1970 ha coincidido con el aumento de la migración mexicana. En México, la desigualdad ha disminuido desde mediados de la década 1990, periodo durante el que la emigración a los Estados Unidos se elevó, primero a niveles nunca antes visto, para luego declinar de manera abrupta.

Nuestra revisión bibliográfica sugiere que la inmigración …

Ethereum And The Sec: Why Most Distributed Autonomous Organizations Are Subject To The Registration Requirements Of The Securities Act Of 1933 And A Proposal For New Regulation, Tiffany L. Minks

Texas A&M Law Review

In a world full of new technology, the risk of fraud is constantly increasing. In the securities industry, this risk existed long before the use of technology. Congress enacted the Securities Act of 1933 to combat the risk of fraud and misrepresentation in the sale of securities. By requiring full disclosure, investors have the opportunity to make informed decisions prior to investing. However, Distributed Autonomous Organizations (“DAOs”), through the use of blockchains and smart-contracts, engage in the sale of securities without fully disclosing the risks or complying with the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933. Compliance with the …

Higher Education Savings And Planning: Tax And Nontax Considerations, F. Philip Manns Jr., Timothy M. Todd

Texas A&M Law Review

Funding higher education is among the critical financial decisions made by individuals and families. There are myriad options. Yet, the conventional wisdom—namely using Section 529 Plans—may not be the optimal vehicle to effectuate this goal. Therefore, this Article discusses various strategies to plan, save, and pay for higher education. It compares various savings methods including gifts, UTMA accounts, Section 529 Plans, trusts, and other vehicles. The analysis explores both tax and non-tax considerations, including the effect of different strategies on financial aid, transaction costs, investor control, income taxes, gift and estate taxes, flexibility, and creditor protection. This Article concludes that …

Valuing Downstream Oil & Gas Companies: The Case Of Phillips 66, Taylor Robertson

Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses

While oil and gas prices remain volatile and often uncertain, they can provide key insight to businesses within the industry. In fact, oil and gas companies are considered to be more linked to oil prices than other day to day operations. In this paper, I will illustrate the relationship oil prices and crack spreads have on downstream oil and gas companies, specifically Phillips 66. Additionally, the Capital Asset Pricing Model and Fama & French 3-factor Model are evaluated to determine the best method to value a downstream oil and gas company. To do this, I will regress all factors against …

Buy-And-Hold Versus Momentum Investment Strategies During Financial Crises, Howard Ly

Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses

In his article, “Where the Black Swans Hide & The 10 Best Days Myth,” Mebane Faber found that most of the best and worst trading days occur when the market is already declining. This phenomenon is due to increased volatility during bear markets, a result of investors’ emotions. Emotions, particularly fear and greed, lead to irrational trading behavior, resulting in rampant speculation or panic selling. Ideally, an investor would be in the market for the above-mentioned best days and be out of the market during the worst days. However, the difficulty in predicting these important dates have led some investors …

Cryptocurrency's Unique Emergence: An Industry Analysis On The Factors Behind A Meteoric Rise And Uncertain Future, Spencer Finney

Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses

The world of cryptocurrency is a fascinating assortment of paradoxes. A world of digital currencies largely built for electronic transactions but with seemingly few vendors to transact with. A world that everyone seems to be talking about but no one can seem to easily define. A world where titans of financial industry publicly lambast the product while having their companies prepare to monetize it in the next room. A world whose digital attributes cause it to be decried as “fake” or “not real” currency while only 24% of Americans still use actual cash for most of their purchases. A world …

The Greatest Basketball Player Of All Time: Lebron Vs. Jordan, Austin Jacobson

Senior Honors Theses

LeBron James is one of the greatest athletes of this generation. I am seeking to determine what he needs to do to surpass Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time. Considering individual statistics, team success, and personal achievements as well as factors such as political and racial activism and involvement, media coverage (including social media), and generational difference, I am hoping to show what is left to accomplish for LeBron to reach and surpass Jordan.

Audit And Ai: Can Artificial Intelligence Restore Public Trust?, Lucas Blackwell

Senior Honors Theses

Due to the fallout from a series of corporate fraud scandals in the late 2000s, the auditing world has lost much of the public trust that is very important to the profession. Much of the value of an audit opinion is determined by the trust the public places in the auditors behind the opinion. Without trust in the auditors, the audit opinion has very little value. The recent increase in the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) in many industries presents a solution to the problem of auditors. Increased usage of AI in the audit process has the potential to better …

Business Plan For Face To Face Els, Llc, Ellen Lucy Simon

Honors Capstones

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More Than Just A Trim In The Workforce: The Barriers Of Inconsistent Occupational Licensing In The United States, Ethan A. Schow

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

In the United States today, inconsistent occupational licensing requirements create barriers for professionals crossing state lines. In order to deal with this multistate problem without resorting to federal oversight, the states should consider forming an interstate compact to oversee and make recommendations for licensing requirement standardization and uniformity. This compact could oversee licensing for many professions. Multistate coordination has been successful before in other areas such as taxation of multistate businesses. Standardizing occupational licensing requirements would make initial licensure and subsequent relocation easier for professionals, and it would provide consumers with uniform quality of services and uniform protection of their …