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Segmentation in the Accounting Profession
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Sectarianism and the accounting profession: the case of Lebanon.
The research on the development of accounting profession has been mostly confined to Anglo-Saxon settings and specific historical. In recent years, some researchers examined the impact of colonization, imperialism, race, and gender on the accounting professionalization project. Most of these …
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The Accounting Profession Goes to War: Accounting Contributions to World War II
… accountants to chart the proper course. And the accounting profession responded to the war and all its concomitant demands in a most splendid fashion. While the accounting profession was actively engaged in promoting the war effort, the war was exerting its own influences by shaping the duties, …
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Kuwait's tax reformation, its alternatives and impact on a developing accounting profession
… reformation on the development of the emerging accounting profession in Kuwait.The determination of the most appropriate tax policy for Kuwait necessitates the examination of the views of those parties most concerned, who are defined in this study as the public, foreign investors, and accounting …
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Adaptive Self-regulation And Organizational Politics: Investigating The Effects In The Accounting Profession
… as a whole. This study contributes to the accounting and psychology literatures because extant research views perceptions of leadership ability and performance from the perspective of the individual agent, with little or no recognition that social action and interaction shape and mold both …
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Contemporary challenges facing the South African accounting profession: issues of selection, recruitment and transformation.
… challenges faced by the South African accounting profession pertaining to the shortage of professional accountants. In particular, increasing the throughput of students to the profession (Paper 1), member recruitment (Paper 2) and racial transformation of the profession (Paper 3) are …
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A design science approach to developing and determining web site quality dimensions for the public accounting profession
Public Accounting (PA) firms play an important role in both the local and the international business environment. Their accounting and business services functions cut across organisations, sectors and industries. Like other professional service firms, PA firms are becoming concerned about the World …
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The emergence and development of the accountancy profession in Cyprus: the case of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus (ICPAC)
… other occupational groups. Moreover, they are professionalized differently in different contexts. Many former British colonies, for instance Nigeria, Australia and India, have adopted the British model of accountancy profession as it is shown in the extant accounting literature. However, little …
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The Public Policy Implications Of Audit Regulation: Three Studies Related To The Passage Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002
… and non-financial strategies used by the public accounting profession to influence audit regulation during the policy formation period of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). The dissertation is comprised of three separate, but related studies. Each study uses prior research in accounting and …
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The evolution of accounting in developing countries : the study of Jordan
… of this study are to ascertain whether Jordan's accounting systems (enterprise, government, social) provide the necessary information for its socio- economic development planning and to suggest means by which to improve accounting in the country.An attempt is made to describe the Jordanian …
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The development of uniform international accounting: an enquiry into the problems, progress and prospects
… of business activities. Because the accounting standards and practices of different countries have developed in response to diverse environments, accounting has developed with strong national accents. Consequently, an enterprise with investments in many countries has difficulty in …
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The Incremental Predictive Ability of General Price Level Adjusted Accounting Numbers for Downward Bond Rating Changes
The accounting profession has made several attempts to deal with the problems caused by the instability in the purchasing power of the dollar. FASB 33 recommended General Price Level adjustment of accounting numbers as one of two alternatives to deal with the problem of changing price levels. This …
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Understanding and Addressing Barriers to Indigenous Learners in Business and Accounting Studies
… peoples face as they pursue business and accounting disciplines at the post-secondary level. Using structured interviews and content analysis, the study explored barriers and means the learners used and opined to remove or reduce those barriers. In addition, the research offers policy …
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Investigating a tripartite collaboration between accounting firms, teachers and prospective accounting learners for growing the accountancy pipeline: a case study from Makhanda
The accounting profession is experiencing a concerning decline in the number of people joining the profession. This is evidenced by decreasing enrolments in entrance examinations, smaller classes in university lecture theatres and the discontinuation of accounting classes in many high schools. Yet, …
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An assessment of the impact of computers on the practices of chartered accountants with some reference to South Africa including an evaluation of current computer education for chartered accountants
… Accountants and relating the findings to the accounting profession in South Africa. An evaluation will also be made of current computer education for pre-qualifying and qualified Chartered Accountants (S.A.). No special attempt has been made to define a computer because it is considered that …
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The effectiveness of internal controls on the management of internally generated funds at the university teaching hospital.
… levels of education, having employees with an accounting profession and having employees with 1+ years of experience. Age of the employees, having employees in tertiary education; Degree, Masters levels of education, having employees with an accounting profession and having employees with 1+ …
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The effectiveness of internal controls on the management of internally generated funds at the university teaching hospital.
… levels of education, having employees with an accounting profession and having employees with 1+ years of experience. Age of the employees, having employees in tertiary education; Degree, Masters levels of education, having employees with an accounting profession and having employees with 1+ …
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The role of accountants in the federal tax process: an empirical investigation
… Treasury Department. These groups together with accounting practitioners and accounting educators were the target population of the study. A questionnaire was designed to obtain respondents' perceptions regarding the actual (what is) and desired (what should be) input of the accounting profession …
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Changing the Accounting Curriculum Skills Needed For Success in Public and Private Accounting
Recent developments in the accounting profession, particularly the AICPA's requirement that its members have 150 credit hours of education beginning in the year 2000, have led to increased scrutiny of accounting education. This paper discusses the results of a survey of public and private …
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Implementing Innovative Pedagogy in the First Course in Accounting and its Relationship to Student Attitudes Toward the Profession
<p>Problem. The traditional accounting pedagogy that served the industrial era effectively is losing its relevance. Not only do accounting graduates lack the kind of skills called for in an information age but the profession is no longer successful in attracting sufficiently large numbers of …
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