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The Effects of Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation and Mandatory Audit Firm Retention on Opinion Shopping
This paper examines the impact of mandatory audit firm rotation and mandatory audit firm retention on opinion shopping. Both regulations place statutory restrictions on a client’s authority to switch auditors with the aim to curb opinion shopping. However, one strand of the literature has argued …
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Functional Literacy: Should it be Mandatory?
… are reviewed, and consideration given to mandatory literacy as a solution to the problem. The effect of functional illiteracy on the military is examined, as well as the relationship of illiteracy to poverty and crime. A survey of educators reveals an awareness among them of this …
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Mandatory corporate patent disclosures and innovation
I investigate the effect of corporate patent disclosures on innovation. Using the American Inventor's Protection Act (AIPA) as a plausibly exogenous shock to corporate patent disclosures, I find evidence of the AIPA shaping innovation through two simultaneous channels. First, the AIPA encourages a …
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Nevada nurses attitudes toward mandatory continuing education
There is ongoing conceptual controversy between mandatory and voluntary continuing education (CE) for relicensure of nurses. This controversy was studied by Arneson in 1979 and 1981, but not reported until 1985. This present research is a replication of Arneson's studies. The study addresses …
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About the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences
As difficult as the task of reaching a reliable verdict may be, the second half of a criminal court's procedure, that of imposing sentences on those who have been found guilty or who have themselves admitted their guilt raises even more fundamental questions. What are we trying to do, what is the …
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The Relationship between Mandatory School Uniforms and Attendance
… exists between the implementation of a mandatory uniform policy in an urban public middle school and student attendance rates (as measured by the schools yearly progress report collected by the state Board of Education). Four schools serving students in grades 6-8 in an urban school …
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Real and accounting effects of mandatory derivatives disclosures
I examine whether SFAS 161 derivatives disclosures affect corporate risk management behavior. First, I find that the adoption of SFAS 161 has real effects on firms’ risk management strategy, resulting in lower overall derivatives use and speculation with derivatives. Second, I find that SFAS 161 …
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Organisational citizenship behaviour: conditional, gendered, obligatory, silently mandatory?
The research presented in this dissertation explores the relationships between income, pay satisfaction, and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) among women and men in low to middle-income employment. A descriptive research design was implemented using secondary, cross-sectional survey data …
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Mandatory security and performance of services in Asbestos
… as the foundation for a Web server that supports mandatory security policies, such that even a compromised Web application cannot improperly disclose private data. The methods used in this thesis allow Web application developers to be freed from worries about flawed applications, if developers are …
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Market Reactions To Analysts' Forecasts And Mandatory Disclosures
This dissertation investigates the effects of changes in the accounting environment on the capital markets. Included are three manuscripts, each of which, make an important contribution to the accounting literature. The first two manuscripts investigate the impact and importance of analysts' …
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Evaluating mandatory parent education for divorcing couples with children
Court-mandated parent education for divorcing parents with children has become a standard practice in recent years. The West Virginia State Legislature voted to mandate parent education programs in all of West Virginia effective January, 2000. Research suggests parental conflict is a major factor …
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Down-to-earth issues in mandatory information system use
A literature review of information system (IS) use issues provides evidence that thecurrent issues appear to be limited when looking at those that are meaningful to systemusers. The current issues covered are often not those encountered in everyday IS usethat might affect the quality use of IS. The …
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Mandatory corporate social responsibility in India: Motivations and effectiveness
… markets are rewarding a firm for spending on “mandatory” CSR or instead treating these expenditures as a cost that adversely affects its value or ROA. The results indicate that the Companies Act has had a positive and statistically significant effect on the likelihood of reporting and magnitude …
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EMPLOYEES' EVALUATION OF MANDATORY IS CHANGE AT POST-IMPLEMENTATION STAGE
… IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF EMPLOYEES' EVALUATION OF MANDATORY IS CHANGES IN THE POST-IMPLEMENTATION STAGE. THIS THESIS DERIVES AND EMPIRICALLY TESTS A THEORETICAL MODEL TO ADDRESS THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS: HOW DO EMPLOYEES EVALUATE A MANDATORY IS CHANGE TO DETERMINE THEIR MENTAL ACCEPTANCE (I.E., …
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Effectiveness of Mandatory Driver Training Programs for Fire Service Drivers
… attempts to measure the effectiveness of mandatory driver training programs for fire service drivers. Effectiveness is defined by a decrease in the number of crashes per number of runs. Two states were identified for comparison, one with mandatory driver training requirements, Washington …
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The Impact of Release on Mandatory Life-Sentenced Prisoners’ Identities
This thesis explores the impact of release on mandatory life-sentenced prisoners’ identities and their experiences of returning to the community after serving a lengthy period of imprisonment. In 2023, there were over 7,000 individuals serving life sentences in England and Wales, most of whom will …
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An Institutional Ethnographic Account of Mandatory Professional Development in New Mexico
… yet few have focused on teachers experiences of mandatory PD. Furthermore, researchers (Adams, 2014; Elmore, 2002; Hargreaves, 2011) have shown numerous points of disconnection between the prescribed policies for teacher PD and the de facto policies reflected in teachers' experiences of PD, …
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Imagining Kurdish Identity in Mandatory Syria: Finding a Nation in Exile
<p>This dissertation looks at the activities of the Kurdish nationalists from Turkey who were exiled in Syria and Lebanon during the period of the French mandate, and especially Jaladet and Kamuran Bedirkhan. Scions of a princely Kurdish family from the Botan region in Eastern Anatolia, the …
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