Authors have long known of the need for “cues” to assess the competence and training of providers of credence services. In the case of health care providers such as eye care professionals, one such cue is whether the eye care professional is “board certified.” This study of 500 consumers who had had an eye exam either from an opto...
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Authors Thomas J. Maronick
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This study was conducted on the determinants of profitability of Ethiopian insurance industry. The study attempts to examine the firm specific factors which are age of company, size of company, leverage ratio, liquidity ratio, premium growth, technical provision, underwriting risk, solvency, reinsurance dependency and tangibility of assets and macroeconomic factors; GDP and Inflation on ...
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Authors Demis Hailegebreal
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Index Approach of Corporate Governance
Published In: GJMBR Part: C: Finance Volume: 16 Issue: 2
This paper has an empirical aim. It consists in assessing, in original way, the corporate governance practices of a sample of 205 US firms based on an index over the period 2007-2012. It is a score calculated using the non-parametric method of the efficiency frontier which reflects, for each firm, the distance separating the firm from the border representing "best practices" in corporate...
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Authors Teber Zitouni
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Financial Reporting Act (FRA), 2015 is an excellent initiative for ensuring transparency and accountability in accounting and auditing profession in Bangladesh. Auditing is the key pillar of public confidence in corporate governance and reporting and the part of an integrated financial reporting supply chain that includes financial managers, directors, accountants and regulators domestic...
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Authors Md. Sahadat Hossen
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This study focuses on identifying the challenges and prospects of Ethiopian tourism industry. The primary data was collected from 501 foreign tourists in the study area. The result of the study show that lack of promotion, lack of physical infrastructure (road, transportation system, network facility, availability of hotel accommodations especially tourist site), misperceptions the image...
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Authors Tekabe Sintayehu
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The purpose of this article is to expose the reasons for the underdevelopment of the human resources in El Salvador. The problem of underdevelopment started with the employment of the manpower in coffee plantations, a situation that did not necessitate the development of the workforce. Adverse economic conditions, poverty, bad working conditions, unemployment, underemployment, and no acc...
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Authors Dr. John D. Theodore
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This paper evaluated the influence of capital base of banks on the level of operational efficiency of banks in Nigeria for the period 2004- 2013, with a view to providing information on financial ratio analysis as a measure of banks’ operational efficiency and how adequate is the capital adequacy of banks’ policy to significantly spur the level of their ...
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Authors Olarewaju, Odunayo Magret
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Over the decades when major reforms and policies were introduced the manufacturing sector could not keep up compared to the countries with similar development/growth phase and size. National manufacturing policy aims at enhancing the share of manufacturing in GDP to 25 % within a decade and creating 100 million jobs. The government has made efforts to provide favorable by simplification,...
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Authors Dr. Syed Khalid Perwez, Dr. G. Vijayalakshmi, Mr. Syed Zahid Perwaiz
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The aim of this report to analysis critical evaluation of the history of development, analysis of the financial performance in last two years and critical evaluation of “Balanced Scorecard” to analyse Kier Group plc’s performance. This study closely calculate financial performance for Kier group and compared with comparative company Barratt P...
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Authors Aso Ahmed Abdullah
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The public transport sector in Tunisia has experienced economic, social and financial difficulties. The declining of the revenue shortfalls and the increased of public expenditure are the critical observed phenomenon. Our research is meant to discover the weaknesses, to find a practical solution and to improve the performance of the public transport sector by improving the performance of...
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Authors Younes Boujelbene, Ahmed Derbel
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