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Management Adviser, Volume 8, Number 3, May-June 1971, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Management Adviser

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Accounting Profession's Opportunities In Edp - Today And Tomorrow, Louis M. Kessler

Management Adviser

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What People Are Writing About, Steven Flory, Natwar Gandhi, Corwin Grube, Robert M. Braun

Management Adviser

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Business Solution To Overcrowding And Inflation, Reuben W. Abrams

Management Adviser

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Marketing Strategy Study Of The Taylor Soil Moisture Tester, Allen Leron Johnsen

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Marketing , some people say, need not be very complicated or costly. Their argument is summarized in Emerson's old adage, "If a man...makes a better mousetrap...the world will beat a path to his door." Such persons are sure that all one must do to succeed in business is to develop a good product,

The mousetrap adage may perhaps have been true when it was first expressed, but it certainly is not true today . The creation and production of a good mousetrap--or any other good product--in and of itself, is not enough to assure a man's fortune, In modern, well-developed …

A Review Of Private Fund Raising At Utah State University With Recommendations For Increased Private Financial Support, Allen Leron Johnsen

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Higher education was hardly over a period of tremendous expansion strain following World War II When it was faced with even more critical pressure caused by an exploding population, a larger percentage of people requiring a college education, and increased demands for services and research on the part of governments and business.

It is small wonder then that funding of higher education has multiplied in scope far beyond the modest appropriations of state legislatures and equally modest philanthropic support of pre-war years. The efforts to advance the understanding and support of educational programs have created whole new administrative departments in …

On The Uses Of Linear Regression Analysis In The Determination Of Continuous Utility Functions, Michael S. Salvador

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

This paper investigates the characteristics of subjective estimation, specifically with regard to those techniques used in the measurement of utility as a function of some decision alternative. Regression analysis is applied to such bivariate estimates for the purpose of obtaining a generalized representation of the functional relationship expressed by same. Then, because of special properties of the subjective estimates themselves, certain statistics are shown to exist which simultaneously provide global measures of goodness of fit and consensus; furthermore, assuming the use of an iterative data collection process, there is also provided a measure of the rate of convergence of the …

Integer Programming : Primal All-Integer Programming, Harvey M. Salkin

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

This work represents the seventh chapter of a forthcoming textbook entitled “Integer Programming” to be written by Harvey M. Salkin.

An Evaluation Of The Entity Theory As A Partial Solution To The Non-Comparability Enigma Of Inter-Firm Income Statement Analysis, Lester Lee Schmidt Jr.

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study has been to evaluate on deductive grounds the proposition that income as determined according to the entity theory would be more comparable among firms than income as determined under contemporary generally accepted accounting principles, and to investigate whether or not empirical support exists among two professional groups for the propositions inherently contained in the entity theory.

1971-04-21, Morehead State Board Of Regents

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

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1971-04-07, Morehead State Board Of Regents

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

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No. 77 1971 April Review

International Journal for Business Education

This initiative documents the preservation and digital release of the organization’s historical print archives, representing decades of scholarship in international business education. By converting legacy issues into accessible online formats, the project enhances global access to foundational research, pedagogical innovations, and early thought leadership that shaped the field. The digitized collection provides educators, researchers, and practitioners with a comprehensive record of evolving theories, instructional practices, and international business trends. Making these archival materials publicly available supports continued inquiry, enables longitudinal analysis, and strengthens the discipline’s historical continuity. This effort reflects the organization’s commitment to advancing international business education by ensuring …

Nonlinear Optimization With Upper And Lower Bounds, Vaughn E. Huckfeldt

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

Many nonlinear programming problems containing only upper and lower bounds are currently solved as unconstrained problems using transformation, or penalty methods of optimization. In this thesis it is shown that (1) Goldfarb's conjugate gradient algorithm can be simplified for NLP problems containing only upper and lower bounds, (2) the simplified algorithm requires less computer storage, and fewer multiplications per iteration with no loss in accuracy, and (3) the simplified algorithm is superior to transformation, or penalty methods when tested on published nonlinear test problems. A FORTRAN code for the nonlinear algorithm for upper and lower bounds, including complete documentation, is …

Integer Programming : Dual All-Integer Integer Programming (Gomory [2]), Harvey M. Salkin

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

This work represents the sixth chapter of a forthcoming textbook “Integer Programming” to be written by Harvey M. Salkin. The cutting plane algorithm for the integer program presented in this chapter was developed by Ralph Gomory in 1960. Its similarity to the fractional method (Chapter 3) is principally due to the utilization of the (lexicographic) dual simplex method and the maintenance of (lexicographic) positive columns. The basic approach is, however, different from the fractional technique: there is no optimization, generating a constraint, reoptimization, etc. Rather, inequalities are generated at each iteration starting with the very first. Further, each of these …

An R & D Management Game, Klaus Truemper, Burton V. Dean

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

The principles of R&D project management have been combined with an existing business management game. The paper outlines the critical elements of the game, provides an analysis of results-to-date, and suggests further extensions of the game.

Computational Experience With A Traveling Salesmen Algorithm, Joseph A. Svestka, Vaughn E. Huckfeldt

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

A formulation of the traveling salesman problem with more than one salesman is offered. The particular formulation has computational advantages over other formulations. Experience is obtained with an exact branch and bound algorithm employing both upper and lower bounds (mean run time for 55 city problems is one minute). Due to the special formulation, certain subtours may satisfy the constraints, thus reducing the search. A very good initial tour and upper bound are employed. The determination of these as well as the pathology of the formulation and the algorithm are discussed. No increase in computation time over the one salesman …

Cpa's Role In Restoring The Ecological Balance, Henry S. Sawin

Management Adviser

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Cost Accounting -- Its Role In A Hospital Information System, Albert P. Ameiss, Warren A. Thompson

Management Adviser

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Sixth Annual Aicpa Computer Conference, Management Services Staff Report

Management Adviser

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Sales Variances: A Further Look, Robert E. Malcom

Management Adviser

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What People Are Writing About, S. J. Lambert Iii, E. A. Devine, Chiou-Hsiung Chang, John N. Kissinger, Gordon S. May, Eugene R. Rozanski

Management Adviser

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People, Events, Techniques, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Management Adviser

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Wall Street -- The Need For Long-Range Planning, Herbert A. Fraenkel

Management Adviser

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Predicting Sales Effects Of Discount Changes, Philip L. Blumenthal, Jr.

Management Adviser

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Management Adviser, Volume 8, Number 2, March-April 1971 (Whole Issue), American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Management Adviser

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Application Of Operations Research In Research Planning - A Case Study, Eric C. Johnson

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

In 1966 Kennecott Copper Corporation and its subsidiary, Chase Brass and Copper Company, launched a long range research effort--the Casting Laboratory-- designed to focus on the area of casting, specifically solidification and liquid metal processing. From the outset, the Casting Laboratory implemented formal activities for the identification and evaluation of research opportunities and activities so that the results could be used for long range planning of Casting Laboratory applied research programs. The author was responsible for these activities during 1967-1970. Drawing on specific activities carried out at the Casting Laboratory during the author's tenure there and activities in which he …

Timeliness Of Library Materials Delivery: A Set Of Priorities, Arnold Reisman, J.P. Herling, M.G. Fancher Beeler, G. Kaminski, S. Srinivasan

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

This paper describes work performed to obtain a set of aggregate priorities and of values for the timeliness of delivery of library materials. The priorities were expressed through a set of weights and utility curves for eleven categories of materials handled in whole or in part by approximately 800 libraries located in the Greater Cleveland area. To obtain the needed data a panel of librarians representing several types of libraries used the Delphi Method of arriving at consensus. The results described in this paper are being used as input information in a project aimed at establishing optimum library delivery truck …

Integer Programming : Dual Fractional Mixed Integer Programming (Gomory [2]), Harvey M. Salkin

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

This work represents the fourth chapter of a forthcoming textbook “Integer Programming” to be written by Harvey M. Salkin. The mixed integer programming algorithm developed by Ralph Gomory in 1960 and presented in this chapter is a direct extension of the integer programming algorithm discussed in Chapter 3. As before, the cutting plane technique utilizes the dual simplex method and allows fractional numbers in computation and is thus classified as "dual fractional." For ease of reference, we rewrite the basic approach.

Integer Programming : Dual Fractional Integer Programming (Gomory [3]), Harvey M. Salkin

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

This work represents the third chapter of a forthcoming textbook “Integer Programming” to be written by Harvey M. Salkin. This chapter concerns itself with a cutting plane algorithm for the integer program which utilizes the dual simplex method and allows fractional numbers in computation - hence the "dual fractional" reference. We outline the basic approach for the integer program extension to the mixed case appears in the next chapter.

An Efficient One-Dimensional Search Procedure For Barrier Function, Leon S. Lasdon, Richard L. Fox, Margery W. Ratner

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

Interior penalty functions are a popular approach for solving non-linear constrained optimization problems. Most current methods for minimizing such functions require a one-dimensional minimization along specified search directions, and this can be quite difficult, since the function approaches +∞ along the boundaries of the feasible set. A special purpose algorithm is described which alleviates this difficulty by using a simpler approximating function which also goes to infinity near the boundary. Numerical results are presented, showing that the number of function evaluations and computation time are reduced by factors of about three and two respectively. The ideas are easily extended to …