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The Economics and Politics of Accounting: International Perspectives on Research Trends, Policy, and Practice
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Accounting and the role of Accountants has permeated the modern societies. For the most part we have accepted the impartiality and objectivity of accounting and not recognized how accounting systems are embedded in a country's economic and legal framework, much of which is in turn shaped by political processes. This web of interactions results in complex economic and political questions which require accounting researchers to focus on several related trends: information economics, regulatory economics, sociology, and political science. Although considerable progress has been made in the field of accounting, many fundamental questions are still subject to debate. In this book leading international scholars address a number of important questions: DT What is the role of accounting in security valuation, decision making and contracting? DT What can we learn from economics-based research in accounting? DT What is the role of auditing and how can accounting standards be enforced? DT What are the cost and benefits of accounting and disclosure regulation? DT What is the role of accounting in society? DT How does lobbying affect the political process of standard setting? DT What are the consequences of the internationalization of standard setting? This seminal book will be of interest to academics, researchers, and graduate students of Accounting, Finance, Business Studies, Sociology, and Political Economy.
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". . . the presentation is lucid and the examples and math are not taxing. Furthermore, the pedagogical and other improvements in the text are more than marginal; they are major, and make the purchase of this second edition well 'worth it' even if you have the first."
--EVALUATION AND PROGRAM PLANNING, Vol 26.1
"Listing all of its virtues would be superfluous. Levin and McEwan have produced an excellent resource for teaching, a valuable handbook for practitioners, and a solid guide to research."
--David Plank, COMPARATIVE EDUCATION REVIEW, Feb. 2002
"Every student in evaluation studies and all who aspire to become professional evaluators must have some minimal knowledge of cost-effectiveness. The content of this book should admirably serve that purpose and should be required reading in all programs that prepare professional evaluators both inside and outside the field of education. The purpose of the book is to familiarize the reader with the uses, concepts, and applications of cost-analysis approaches to educational evaluations. Careful attention is given to outlining the development and use of cost-feasibility, cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, and cost-utility as complimentary techniques for assisting educational decisions."
--Darrell R. Lewis, Educational Policy, University of Minnesota
"Those of you teaching cost analysis and management of human services systems should look carefully at this text. Human services professional managing systems are confronted with the problems of being increasingly more efficient. This text will help you teach those students entering the field about how to conduct analytical studies of their management practices. I award the authors many accolades for an excellent treatment of a very complex topic which is now translated into useable materials for management."
--Jon S. Ebeling, Political Science, California State University, Chico
"Research shows that smaller class sizes generate benefits in the form of higher achievement. But does that mean that reducing class size is a cost-effective policy change? This book by Levin and McEwan provides the analytical tools and concepts for educational policy makers to address that and many other policy questions. It defines and distinguishes various concepts of cost analysis, including cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit and cost-utility analysis, and makes a compelling case for their usefulness to policy makers. The book offers an essential analytical foundation for all policy makers in education interested in spending money wisely and productively."
--Helen F. Ladd, Public Policy Studies & Economics, Duke University
Why should applied researchers be concerned with cost-effectiveness analysis? Answer: Because it will enable them to discover if a particular program or policy has attained maximum effectiveness for a given budget. Designed so that an individual can utilize this book as part of an informal course of self-study or in a formal course on the subject, Levin and McEwan provide readers with the step-by-step methods to plan and implement a cost-analysis study. Through the use of numerous examples drawn from the applied literature, the authors explain, demonstrate and illustrate the four major techniques of cost analysis: cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, cost-utility, and cost-feasibility. They examine issues that are pertinent to the choice of analysis and its implementation; the nature of costs, including how to identify, measure, and distribute costs; measuring effectiveness, utility, and benefits; and, lastly the challenges to incorporating cost evaluations in the decision making process. In-depth exercises are included at the end of each chapter to enable readers to sharpen their ability to evaluate policy options and program effectiveness. (The feedback to these exercises are provided in an Appendix at the end of the book). The authors also provide readers with recommended readings at the end of chapters and a comprehensive bibliography of methodological sources on cost analysis and educational cost studies at the end of the book. This book will enable readers to reduce the costs of reaching particular objectives, and expand what can be accomplished for any particular budget or resource constraint.
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Cost Effectiveness Book .......2007-07-30
The information on the Amazon web site regarding this book should make it clear that it covers CE analysis for educational situations; it has a very limited usefulness, as all examples given refer to education 'performance.'
A Required Reading on Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.......2001-01-12
This is an excellent book on the methods and applications of cost-effectiveness analysis. The book is lucid in its presentation, is filled with useful examples based on actual situations and analyses, enhances readers' understanding of the subject through succinct feedback to exercises, and provides an extensive bibliography of cost studies in education. It is highly recommended to readers who are interested in making informed decisions regarding more efficient utilization of resources and who are seeking an easy-to-read basic book to learn and apply the essential tools of cost-effectiveness analysis. It should be a required reading for students in evaluation programs in education and other fields.
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Volume II & III of Experimental Business Research include original papers that were presented at the Second Asian Conference on Experimental Business Research held at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) on December 16-19, 2003. The conference was organized by the Center for Experimental Business Research (cEBR) at HKUST and was chaired by Professors Amnon Rapoport and Rami Zwick.
Experimental Business Research adopts laboratory based experimental economics methods to study an array of business and policy issues spanning the entire business domain including accounting, economics, finance, information systems, marketing and management and policy.
"Experimental economics" is an established term that refers to the use of controlled laboratory-based procedures to test the implications of economic hypotheses and models and discover replicable patterns of economic behavior. We have coined the term "Experimental Business Research" in order to broaden the scope of "experimental economics" to encompass experimental finance, experimental accounting, and more generally the use of laboratory-based procedures to test hypotheses and models arising from research in other business related areas, including information systems, marketing, and management and policy.
The chapters included in these volumes reflect the domain diversity of studies in the experimental business research field.
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Experimental Business Research: Volume III: Marketing, Accounting and Cognitive Perspectives
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Volume II and III of Experimental Business Research include original papers that were presented at the Second Asian Conference on Experimental Business Research held at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) on December 16-19, 2003. The conference was organized by the Center for Experimental Business Research (cEBR) at HKUST and was chaired by Professors Amnon Rapoport and Rami Zwick. Experimental Business Research adopts laboratory based experimental economics methods to study an array of business and policy issues spanning the entire business domain including accounting, economics, finance, information systems, marketing and management and policy. "Experimental economics" is an established term that refers to the use of controlled laboratory-based procedures to test the implications of economic hypotheses and models and discover replicable patterns of economic behavior. We have coined the term "Experimental Business Research" in order to broaden the scope of "experimental economics" to encompass experimental finance, experimental accounting, and more generally the use of laboratory-based procedures to test hypotheses and models arising from research in other business related areas, including information systems, marketing and management and policy. The chapters included in these volumes reflect the domain diversity of studies in the experimental business research field.
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Inquiry and Accounting: Alternate Methods and Research Perspectives
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In an important and innovative contribution to the scholarship of accounting theory, Ahmed Belkaoui presents new ways of thinking about the practices, problems, and directions of accounting. According to Belkaoui, researchers, practitioners, users, and students of accounting hold many different visions of the field, each the result of a conscious choice between alternative approaches, methodologies, images, structures, and paradigms. Here, Belkaoui offers a thorough, comprehensive examination of these various methods and techniques of accounting as well as an in-depth exploration of their philosophical determinants.
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Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic: Crafting Long-term Ecological and Societal Solutions (New Perspectives in Research on Corporate Sustainability)
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Transportation planning deals with the ways in which governments at various levels try to ensure the effective and efficient movement of people and goods. For this collection, the editors have selected the key previously published papers which analyse some of the major methodological issues involved in modern transportation planning and discuss the main policy questions and debates. The wide range of topics covered includes traffic assignment, developments in modelling travel behaviour, urban travel, the effect of modern telecommunications on travel, congestion and pricing policy.
The book includes a new authoritative introduction which offers a comprehensive overview of the themes and ideas raised in the articles.
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The answers to your performance improvement questions are here!
The first edition of the Handbook of Human Performance Technology has been the bible of this rapidly evolving field. This new edition, co-published with The International Society for Performance Improvement, adopts a more international approach and introduces you to many emerging technologies.
You'll learn how to:
Plan performance improvement projects
Analyze a corporate culture
Implement effective interventions
Use job aids and multimedia-based training
Conduct on-the-job training
Evaluate intervention effectiveness
Improve your own professional life . . . and much more!
Contributors to the volume comprise a veritable who's who in the field of performance improvement. If you own the trailblazing first edition, you'll want to add this volume to your bookshelf. If you are a trainer, consultant, or a manager engaged in improving performance, this groundbreaking work is indispensable.
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A Comprehensive and Practical Reference for the Practioner.......2005-09-23
The size and weight of this book caused me to think twice because the combination of those features often suggest more than a fair amount of techno speak,often more satisfying for the writer than the reader. The weight of this book is pure muscle, written for the user...clear, understandable and comprehensive. If you are interested in global organizational performance, I found the treatment of the subject very useful and well done. As it turns out, the weight of the book has a complimentary benefit i.e. eliminating at least one trip to the gym, I can now build both strength and knowledge without having to take a gym shower. It may not be a benefit for everyone, but the Handbook for HTP will provide value for those who are serious about this subject....
Excellent Reference.......2003-01-07
This book has been an excellent desk reference. It is a must for anyone working or studying in the field of performance technology.
Just what is says: a complete and state-of-the-art handbook.......1999-09-10
We humans are most important. Not only to ourselves, but increasingly to economy. More and more humans become alive within the business they work in. And businesses become more and more knowledge critical, which enhances the importance of humans and their performance. This means that addressing issues on human performance becomes increasingly complex and daunting. Hence: Human Performance Technology. This handbook is both scientific and realistic. It takes the need for metrics as much into account as the 'softer' aspects. It approaches HP from a General Systems Theory approach and does is coherent. Everyone that wants to know where we stand, where we are going, will love it for its scientific and academic value alone. But those who want to put HPT in practice at strategical, tactical and/or oprational level will both love and need it. If you are serious about HP you will find this handbook is worth every cent.
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This book was originally researched by the author for the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group. The aim was to analyse the Palestinian High Court's judgments ordering the Palestinian Authority to release Palestinian political prisoners whose penal procedural rights -- together with the High Court's judgments -- have been disregarded by the Palestinian Authority since 1996. With a view to providing practical recommendations to all parties responsible, the book includes the following features:
+ an introduction to the political and legal contexts and an independent summary analysing the findings of the research;
+ tables presenting all High Court cases dealing with Palestinian political prisoners detained in the Palestinian Territories handed down between 30 November 1997 and 13 June 2000;
+ 17 translations and analyses of pleadings to and judgments of the High Court;
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+ summaries and translations of applicable penal procedural law in force in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank;
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With the discovery in 1995 of the first planet orbiting another star, we now realize that planets are not unique to our own Solar System. For centuries, humanity has wondered whether we are alone in the Universe. We are now finally one step closer to knowing the answer. The quest for exoplanets is an exciting one because it holds the possibility that one day we might find life elsewhere in the Universe, born in the light of another sun. Written from the perspective of one of the pioneers of this scientific adventure, this exciting account describes the development of the modern observing technique that has enabled astronomers to find so many planets orbiting around other stars. It reveals the wealth of new planets that have now been discovered outside our Solar System, and the meaning of this finding as it concerns other life in the Universe. Michel Mayor is Director of the Observatory of Geneva, Switzerland. In 1995, together with Didier Queloz, he discovered the first extrasolar planet (51 Peg b) around a main sequence star, and has discovered many more since. His work earned him the prestigious Balzan Prize in 2000, for Instrumentation and Techniques in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Pierre-Yves Frei is a science journalist with the Swiss newspaper, Lausanne Hebdo. In 1998 he was awarded the Media Prize of the Swiss Natural Sciences Academy for science popularization. Boud Roukema is the translator.
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The Quest to find Worlds Outside our Solar System.......2005-10-18
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This book, by distinguished astronomer Dr. Michel Mayor and science journalist Pierre-Yves Frei is about extrasolar planets or simply exoplanets that are planets located outside our solar system. Mayor was the co-discoverer in 1995 of the first exoplanet (named 51 Pegasus b or HD 217014 b).
This is the book to get if you want to understand everything about exoplanets. Considering the subject matter, I found this book surprisingly easy to read. (That is, you don't have to be a science geek to read and understand it.)
There are ten chapters. Below I will give the titles and state briefly what I consider are some of the main topics of each chapter. I will give a sample sentence in quotation marks from a few of these chapters.
(1) THE QUEST BEGINS.
Stars in general, planets in general, more on 51 Pegasus b (or 51 Peg b).
"Other worlds exist, there are thousands of them, an infinity of other worlds, just as [those of the past] had imagined."
(2) INFINITY AND BEYOND.
Aristotle and the finite universe; Epicurus and the infinite universe; Ptolemy; the worlds beyond the solar system of Giordano Bruno; Tycho Brahe, Kepler; Galileo; Newton; sky measurements; galaxies.
"There was a time when no one would have bet on the existence of a planet further than [the sixth planet] Saturn. But in less than two hundred years, three new celestial objects were added to [our] solar system. Planet chasing is an ancient art."
(3) NEW ARRIVALS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
The discoveries of the seventh, eighth, and ninth planets of our solar system with a mention of the hypothesized planets Vulcan and Planet X.
(4) WHY STARS WOBBLE.
Proper Motion, sun oscillation, rumors of exoplanets, classical astrometry. (Astrometry is a method for detecting exoplanets.)
(5) NEUTRON PLANETS.
Pulsars (that is, pulsating stars or rapidly rotating neutron stars), lives of stars, rumors about planets (pulsar planets), the PSR 1257+12 exoplanetary system.
(6) BROWN DWARFS IN THE HEADLINES
An examination of hypothetical brown dwarfs that are essentially failed stars. The least massive brown dwarfs should have the same mass as the exoplanets discovered so far. Are exoplanets being confused with small brown dwarfs?
(7) SIRENS IN THE COSMOS.
The era of spectrography (or spectroscopy which is the study of spectra), the first exoplanetary searches, the radial velocity method (another method for detecting exoplanets).
(8) FOREIGN PLANETS DIFFERENT TO OUR HOMEGROWN ONES
Planet formation, the very eccentric orbits of exoplanets, exoplanetary systems with multiple planets, metallic stars.
(9) DESTINATION: EARTHS!
First visible exoplanet, the transit method (another method for detecting exoplanets), microlensing (yet another method for detecting exoplanets), interferometry (a technique for creating very big telescopes), taking a photo of another earth.
(10) FURTHER YET: LIFE
What is life, emergence of life on earth, life in the solar system, habitable planets, SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
"Will we find extraterrestrial life? Has another planet in the Universe succeeded in assembling the extraordinary...conditions that life seems to require in order to appear? This is the ultimate question that lies behind the quest for exoplanets."
There is also an appendix called "Properties of the exoplanets." Here you'll find the names of just over 100 exoplanets discovered up to October 2002. The properties given for each is mass (in our planet's Jupiter masses), orbital period (in Earth days), and eccentricity. (Orbital period is the time in Earth days the planet takes to complete an orbit. Eccentricity describes the shapes of elliptical orbits where the closer this value is to 1.0, the longer and thinner the orbit.)
This appendix is fascinating. However, I couldn't understand why the authors did not give the properties (named above) for planet Earth so as to be used for comparison. Sure most people know that the Earth's period is about 365 days. But how many people know what its mass is in Jupiter masses or what its eccentricity is? (The Earth's orbit is almost a circle so its eccentricity is very low: about 0.016. The Earth's mass in Jupiter masses is about 0.003.)
Another valuable feature of this book is that it has a good, brief glossary. I found this invaluable for clarifying key terms.
A feature of this book's bibliography is that it has the names of 10 interesting internet sites.
This gem of a book has more than 25 very informative illustrations throughout. As well, there is a set of color plates in the form of 15 photographs found near the middle of the book.
Finally, the only problem I had with this book is that there is no index. I couldn't understand this since the rest of the book is so well laid out. (Even the illustrations are indexed in the table of contents.) As you can see from my summary of the 10 chapters, this book offers a wealth of information. Thus I thought the lack of an index was a major oversight.
In conclusion, this is a unique book that explains a new and interesting science: the quest for exoplanets. If you want to find out more about exoplanets, then this is the definitive book to read!!
(first published 2003; list of figures; preface; acknowledgements; 10 chapters; main narrative 235 pages; appendix; glossary; bibliography)
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