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BUSINESS RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS AND ON-FARM CAPITAL INVESTMENT
Business risk management (BRM) programs can help reduce the risk inherent in the agricultural industry that is associated with income variability. These programs are commonly in the form of insurance (production insurance, net margin insurance, etc.). There is a vast literature on investment …
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Business Risk and the Corporate Demand for Liquid Assets
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Financial Responses to Changes in Business Risk on Central Illinois Grain Farms
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An empirical investigation of a social accounting issue: a study of the association between energy usage and business risk
… manufacturing industries and companies and their risk. This possibility was considered important because of the attention that has been focused on energy problems since the OPEC oil embargo and the interest of investors in the risk of securities. Support for the possibility that an association may …
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Accounting comparability, audit effort and audit outcomes
… reporting. From two perspectives of “inherent business risk” and “external information efficiency”, comparability is helpful for auditors to assess client business risk and lowers the cost of information acquisition, processing, and testing. For a given firm, I hypothesize that the availability …
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An Application Of Risk Contingent Credit Applied To New York Dairy Farms With U.S. Options On Class Iii Milk Futures
… and all dairy farmers is an example of when business risk become so severe that the residual impact on financial risk become acute. While financial risk is ever present, stress results only when conditions arise in which downside risk result in a return on assets insufficient to meet fixed …
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Elaboration in Audit Financial-Statement Review: An Experimental Investigation From a Persuasion Perspective
… similar environmental factors in the past) and business risk (higher/lower). As predicted, these two variables not only independently affect the type of reviewer elaboration, but interact to affect reviewer behavior as well. Further, type of elaboration activities was shown to be an important …
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Dynamic and robust network resource allocation
… are essential modeling tools in engineering, business, and public policy research. They can represent physical connections, such as manufacturing processes. They can be relationships among people, such as patient treatment in healthcare. They can also represent abstract interactions, such as …
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Value-based multidisciplinary optimization for commercial aircraft program design
… program design, as well as assessment of program business risk. A value-based MDO framework couples a performance model with an improved stochastic program valuation, accounting explicitly for both uncertain demand via market volatility and managerial flexibility by invoking Real Options theory. …
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Compound Semiconductor Material Manufacture, Process Improvement
… semi-conducting material structures and uses the business performance to identify the process drivers. One year's [1997] business and process information is used for a single iteration of the improvement cycle. These drivers are then utilised as operators and offer the critical weaknesses in the …
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The determinants of capital structure : a study of industrial firms listed on the JSE
… (and their respective measures) are; the firm's business risk (standard deviation of sales), size (natural log of sales), asset composition (fixed assets/total assets), profitability (earnings before interest and tax/total assets), growth opportunities (market value of equity/book value of …
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Audit quality and performance evaluation : an analysis of the US credit union industry
… select higher audit quality if faced with higher business risk, size and agency costs. Audit quality is inversely associated with the probability of earnings management but is not associated with other forms of financial statement management. However, audit quality is not associated with an …
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Essays on Audit Pricing
… a premium for the auditor's client-specific business risk. Using unique proprietary audit fee and hour data from four large audit firms with international reputation, the essay documents, first in the literature, the existence of risk premiums in actual audit fees after direct control for …
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The impact of regulatory changes on the client service delivery strategies of a large multinational accounting firm in South Africa
… to become better acquainted with the client’s business risk, frustration due to independence restrictions exists and affects the auditor-client relationship. Unfortunately, increased regulations have also caused accounting firms to adopt onerous risk mitigating measures, thus negatively …
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Corporate Social Responsibility and its Effects on Corporate-Community Relationships: A Case Study of Chevron's Richmond Refinery Fire in 2012
… with their communities. Similarly, in <em>Risk Management, Real Options, and Corporate Social Responsibility, </em>Husted (2005) argues about the merits of understanding CSR as a means to ensure economic returns by investing in communities. Husted (2005) argues CSR should be thought of as a …
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An Industry Level Analysis of Demand for Insurance in South Africa
… instability, is affecting economic growth. Among businesses, the use of insurance contracts has been advanced as one of the most effective risk management strategies to deal with the business risk. Insurance is designed to hedge against unforeseen and unplanned risks that may be attributable to …
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A maturity model to enhance the adoption of Additive Manufacturing in spare part provisioning in South Africa
… (4IR) demands a significant change in the way businesses operate. The previous three industrial revolutions were initiated from the market and demanded that organisations adopt to the market requirements for more cost-effective, high-volume and standardised products. The 4IR started with the …
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Evolutionary supply chain risk management : transforming culture for sustainable competitive advantage
… and turbulent global economy, the topic of risk management has gained significant interest in the business and academic world. However, in practice, risk management remains rather underdeveloped and often dealt with in an informal and reactive manner. To this end, we propose a comprehensive …
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Leverage Adjustment and Credit Risk
… and effect of speed of adjustment on credit risk.</p> <p><strong>Ⅰ:</strong> We standardize leverage ratio by underlying business risk. The methodology of standardization follows the assumption that asset value follows a geometric Brownian motion. We find that by standardizing book leverage …
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Analisis prediksi financial distress serta pengaruhnya terhadap harga saham dengan struktur modal sebagai variabel intervining: Studi pada perusahaan jasa yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia tahun 2009-2013
… financial structure proportion doesn’t cause business risk that will emerge financial Distress until it doesn’t moving stocks price. From Altman z-score prediction show from 23 companies any 10 of it (APOL, BIPP BLTA, BTEL, FMII, HITS, IATA, LIMAS, RIMO, and TKGA) include on financial distress …
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