How Behavior Spreads
How Behavior Spreads

Author: Damon Centola

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-03-24

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0691202427

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A new, counterintuitive theory for how social networks influence the spread of behavior New social movements, technologies, and public-health initiatives often struggle to take off, yet many diseases disperse rapidly without issue. Can the lessons learned from the viral diffusion of diseases improve the spread of beneficial behaviors and innovations? How Behavior Spreads presents over a decade of original research examining how changes in societal behavior—in voting, health, technology, and finance—occur and the ways social networks can be used to influence how they propagate. Damon Centola's startling findings show that the same conditions that accelerate the viral expansion of an epidemic unexpectedly inhibit the spread of behaviors. How Behavior Spreads is a must-read for anyone interested in how the theory of social networks can transform our world.

Insights from Accounting History
Insights from Accounting History

Author: Stephen Zeff

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-06-10

Total Pages: 749

ISBN-13: 1136968415

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Stephen Zeff has been a prolific researcher on the history of accounting and auditing in the twentieth century. He has written numerous papers on the history of standard setting and regulation, of accounting and auditing practice, of the accounting profession, of accounting thought, and of the intellectual contributions of major authors (such as Hatfield, Canning, Paton and MacNeal). This volume brings together the greatest hits of Zeff's academic career, including several articles that were published in out-of-the way places, for easier use by students and researchers of the field. In an introduction, Zeff discusses the evolution of his research interests and explains the factors led to the writing of the papers and their intended contribution to the literature. The book also includes a complete list of his publications.

Introduction to Management Accounting 1-19 and Student Cd Package
Introduction to Management Accounting 1-19 and Student Cd Package

Author: Charles T. Horngren

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780130649713

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For courses in Introduction to Management Accounting. Get refreshed with Horngren/Sundem/Stratton's Introduction to Management Accounting, Twelfth Edition. This best-selling text offers a relevant, real-world decision-making approach to management accounting. Students develop a solid understanding of costs and cost behavior and the use of cost information for planning and control decisions, not just inventory valuation. An exceptionally strong pedagogy and supplements package and flexible structure provide instructors with great latitude in choosing various combinations of breadth and depth, theory and procedures, simplicity and complexity. The Twelfth Edition now includes student-oriented real-world company examples such as Nantucket Nectars and McDonalds; new "Cognitive Exercises" and "Business First" boxes, new on-line courses and tutorial software package resources, and a new CD-ROM series, "Mastering Accounting."

Corporate Financial Reporting
Corporate Financial Reporting

Author: Andrew Higson

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2003-02-28

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780761971412

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The Internet bubble has collapsed and the largest bankruptcy in US history, Enron, has made the call for greater transparency in financial reporting more important than ever. Andrew Higson draws attention to what is a 'true and fair view' in reporting and critically examines accounting theory and modern practice.

Corporate Governance Matters
Corporate Governance Matters

Author: David Larcker

Publisher: FT Press

Published: 2011-04-14

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0132367076

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Corporate Governance Matters gives corporate board members, officers, directors, and other stakeholders the full spectrum of knowledge they need to implement and sustain superior governance. Authored by two leading experts, this comprehensive reference thoroughly addresses every component of governance. The authors carefully synthesize current academic and professional research, summarizing what is known, what is unknown, and where the evidence remains inconclusive. Along the way, they illuminate many key topics overlooked in previous books on the subject. Coverage includes: International corporate governance. Compensation, equity ownership, incentives, and the labor market for CEOs. Optimal board structure, tradeoffs, and consequences. Governance, organizational strategy, business models, and risk management. Succession planning. Financial reporting and external audit. The market for corporate control. Roles of institutional and activist shareholders. Governance ratings. The authors offer models and frameworks demonstrating how the components of governance fit together, with concrete examples illustrating key points. Throughout, their balanced approach is focused strictly on two goals: to “get the story straight,” and to provide useful tools for making better, more informed decisions.

Forging Accounting Principles in Five Countries
Forging Accounting Principles in Five Countries

Author: Stephen A. Zeff

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-01-29

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1317352254

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This title, first published in 1972, examines five countries that have experience with programs designed to improve the quality of financial reporting. Zeff devotes separate chapters to the historical evolution of the program, and then goes on to compare and analyse the various trends. This book presents an important piece of research to those concerned with the development of accounting principles.

Memorial Articles for 20th Century American Accounting Leaders
Memorial Articles for 20th Century American Accounting Leaders

Author: Stephen A. Zeff

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-31

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1317282671

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This collection of memorial articles and selected obituaries highlights the careers and contributions to accounting practice, the accounting profession, and the accounting literature of leading American figures in the 20th century. The memorial articles do much more than recite their subject’s career. More importantly, they discuss and assess their subject’s role in influencing the course of accounting practice and the profession as well as the evolution of their influential writings, revealing the names of the accounting leaders and leading thinkers of the past century. Memorial Articles for 20th Century American Accounting Leaders is useful in providing students and young researchers with a rich source of intelligence on the leaders who have established norms of practice, advanced the profession, and set the terms of debate in the literature – leaders who are cited and even quoted but who are known mostly as names without a full-bodied treatment of their backgrounds and broader roles in shaping the accounting literature.

A Conceptual Framework for Financial Accounting and Reporting
A Conceptual Framework for Financial Accounting and Reporting

Author: Richard Macve

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1317842782

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First published in 1997. This volume is a collection of studies that look at the ‘conceptual framework’ undertaken initially for the UK’s Accounting Standards Committee (‘ASC’), and to consider how far the views expressed in them have stood the test of time as standard setters around the world have followed in the FASB’s footsteps.

The Development of Accounting Theory (RLE Accounting)
The Development of Accounting Theory (RLE Accounting)

Author: Michael Gaffikin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-05

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1134707169

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This book is a resource book for the comprehensive study of the development of accounting thought. It is designed to facilitate the study of the original works and stimulate further study of important accounting theory forbears. It covers: accounting theory accounting concepts of profit financial accounting and the foundations of accounting measurement accounting evaluation and economic behaviour.

Alphanomics
Alphanomics

Author: Charles Lee

Publisher: Now Publishers

Published: 2015-12-16

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781601988928

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Alphanomics: The Informational Underpinnings of Market Efficiency is intended to be a compact introduction to academic research on market efficiency, behavioral finance, and fundamental analysis and is dedicated to the kind of decision-driven and prospectively-focused research that is much needed in a market constantly seeking to become more efficient. The authors refer to this type of research as Alphanomics, the informational economics behind market efficiency. Alpha refers to the abnormal returns, which provide the incentive for some subpopulation of investors to engage in information acquisition and costly arbitrage activities. Nomics refers to the economics of alpha extraction, which encompasses the costs and incentives of informational arbitrage as a sustainable business proposition. Some of the questions that are addressed include: why do we believe markets are efficient?; what problems have this belief engendered?; what factors can impede and/or facilitate market efficiency?; what roles do investor sentiment and costly arbitrage play in determining an equilibrium level of informational efficiency?; what is the essence of value investing?; how is it related to fundamental analysis (the study of historical financial data)?; and how might we distinguish between risk and mispricing based explanations for predictability patterns in returns? The first two sections review the evolution of academic thinking on market efficiency and introduce the noise trader model as a rational alternative. Section 3 surveys the literature on investor sentiment and its role as a source of both risks and returns. Section 4 discusses the role of fundamental analysis in value investing. Section 5 reviews the literature on limits to arbitrage, and section 6 discusses research methodology issues associated with the need to distinguish mispricing from risk.