ARTICLE IN PRESS Journal of Accounting and Economics 39 (2005) 509–533 www.elsevier.com/locate/jae To blame or not to blame: Analysts’ reactions to external explanations for poor financial performance$ Jan Barton, Molly Mercerà Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA Received 3 March 2003; received in revised form 17 March 2005; accepted 4 April 2005 Abstract Managers often provide self-serving disclosures that blame poor financial performance on temporary external
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Purdue extension EC-722 Industry Analysis: The Five Forces Cole Ehmke, Joan Fulton, and Jay Akridge Department of Agricultural Economics Kathleen Erickson, Erickson Communications Sally Linton Department of Food Science Overview Assessing Your Marketplace The economic structure of an industry is not an accident. Its complexities are the result of long-term social trends and economic forces. But its effects on you as a business manager are immediate because it determines the competitive
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order to validate the developed model, an eye-tracking experiment was conducted. Using an eye-tracking device that records the frequency and duration of fixation, the subjects were asked to view a life-size picture of a shelf. Multiple regression analysis was used to analyse the data gathered from the experiment. Results obtained showed that in-store visual factors are determinants of attention. It was found that the horizontal and vertical position and image affects the duration of fixation, while
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Team 4 - Your Way to have a Nutritious Day Project Proposal and Plan 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction Everyone wants to grow high and achieve more, along with fulfilling their dreams and responsibilities. For achieving a dream or fulfill our responsibilities we should be planned, have resources and over the top we should possess Good Health. Here comes the Motto of our project How to be healthy ? In today’s fast-paced life, where people are busy in achieving targets take less care to our food habitat
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Learning organization For more information about SPSS Inc. software products, please visit our Web site at http://www.spss.com or contact SPSS Inc. 233 South Wacker Drive, 11th Floor Chicago, IL 60606-6412 Tel: (312) 651-3000 Fax: (312) 651-3668 SPSS is a registered trademark and the other product names are the trademarks of SPSS Inc. for its proprietary computer software. No material describing such software may be produced or distributed without the written permission of the owners of the trademark
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Probability & Statistics for Engineers & Scientists This page intentionally left blank Probability & Statistics for Engineers & Scientists NINTH EDITION Ronald E. Walpole Roanoke College Raymond H. Myers Virginia Tech Sharon L. Myers Radford University Keying Ye University of Texas at San Antonio Prentice Hall Editor in Chief: Deirdre Lynch Acquisitions Editor: Christopher Cummings Executive Content Editor: Christine O’Brien Associate Editor: Christina Lepre Senior
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PEST - Analysis By Dagmar Recklies The PEST analysis has proven to be a flexible and easy to understand tool in the context of strategic planning. Like with all tools, the real value of the PEST analysis depends on the way it is used. Hence, the following article not only describes the content of this tool, it also provides advice for its practical application and interpretation. Content The PEST or PESTLE is a useful starting point for the analysis of an organizations external environment and the
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Statistics and Computing Series Editors: J. Chambers D. Hand W. H¨ rdle a Statistics and Computing Brusco/Stahl: Branch and Bound Applications in Combinatorial Data Analysis Chambers: Software for Data Analysis: Programming with R Dalgaard: Introductory Statistics with R, 2nd ed. Gentle: Elements of Computational Statistics Gentle: Numerical Linear Algebra for Applications in Statistics Gentle: Random Number Generation and Monte Carlo Methods, 2nd ed. H¨ rdle/Klinke/Turlach: XploRe: An Interactive
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SELF-CONTROL, FINANCIAL LITERACY, AND THE FINANCIAL BEHAVIORS OF YOUNG ADULTS Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Jodi C. Letkiewicz, B.S., M.S. Graduate Program in Human Ecology ******* The Ohio State University 2012 Dissertation Committee: Dr. Jonathan Fox, Advisor Dr. Catherine P. Montalto Dr. Robert Scharff Dr. Caezilia Loibl
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