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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"financial health"”.
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Audit Outcomes and Financial Health of Municipalities in South Africa
The regressing financial health, unfavourable annual audit outcomes, severed reputation for service delivery failures and resultant protests of South Africa's municipalities have raised a public furore. Several multi-stakeholder interventions purporting to address the financial mismanagement, audit …
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Improving Consumer Well-being: A Focus on Financial Health and Technology Adoption
… predictable consequences such as job loss and financial hardships, impacting both economic and psychological well-being. The digital age has introduced new types of harm associated with privacy violations and AI technology adoption. While people might have a vague idea of the negative …
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Striking the Balance: The Relationship Between Government Funding and Nonprofit Financial Health
… across various fields, including education, healthcare, social services, arts and culture, and environmental protection. Salamon (1987) highlighted the cooperative relationship between nonprofits and the government, where nonprofits contribute expertise and community-based knowledge, while …
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Management and benchmarking strategies to improve financial health status of U.S. beef operators
… of Production (UCOP). Using the KPI's, a Ranch Health Index (RHI) was developed to assist producers in simply analyzing their financial health while analyzing beef production and financial relationships. Lastly, producer information using the significant KPI's incorporated into the RHI was …
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An examination of the impact of early retirement incentives on school district financial health
… offering or not-offering an ERI impacted on the financial health of a school districts in the State of Michigan. Selected school districts in Michigan were surveyed regarding any ERI's they may have offered during the 2003-04 to 2007-08 school years. If the district offered an ERI, various …
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Municipal Governance and Financial Health: An Analysis of the Institutional Structures of California Cities
… of California municipalities and their financial health by examining how variations in framework, form of government, and operational model affect a city’s finances. This study seeks to answer why some cities are more fiscally healthy than others, particularly when facing similar …
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Financial health protection in Swaziland: an assessment of financial catastrophe and impoverishment from out-of-pocket payments
… globally, the need for assessing levels of financial health protection in countries, particularity the developing world, has increasingly become important. Swaziland's health financing system performance in terms of ensuring financial health protection is not clearly understood. This paper …
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An analysis of financial health and the provision of financial management services in South Africa's previously disadvantaged SME community : implications for sustainability and creditworthiness
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-103)
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Altman Z-Score Models and predicting financial distress: Empirical study of delisted mining stocks on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
… of Altman's Z-score models when used to predict financial health and subsequent delisting of mining and metal companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) from 1994 till 2021. The study applied the Altman's Z-score model as well as the Z double prime model to the financials of JSE …
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Financial Analysis and Fiscal Viability of Secondary Schools in Mukono District, Uganda
… to assist in the evaluation and encouragement of financial health and fiscal viability. However, in the educational community, such analysis is uncommon. It has long been argued that educational institutions bear little resemblance to, and should not be treated like, businesses. This research …
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Promoting Symphony Sustainability: A Case Study of the Houston Symphony's The Planets - An HD Odyssey Film Project
… that contribute to the orchestra's overall financial health and community standing. By studying the Houston Symphony's successful film project, The Planets - An HD Odyssey, as well as similar orchestra programs and the Knight Foundation's Magic of Music report, one can pinpoint specific …
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Tuition Reductions: A Quantitative Analysis of the Prevalence, Circumstances and Outcomes of an Emerging Pricing Strategy in Higher Education
… serve higher proportions of students with high financial need, to have smaller endowments, and were more likely to be religiously affiliated. The study found that the operational outcomes of tuition reducing institutions in the year of the tuition reduction tended to be positive for students …
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Esports implementation in higher education: a quantitative analysis
… Carnegie Research Classification, Institutional Financial Health, Athletic Conference Affiliation, and Athletic Budget Size are associated with the implementation of eSports in higher education. I hypothesized that lower Carnegie Research Focus, stronger financial health, conference affiliation, …
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Testing the accuracy of the emerging market scoring model for measuring and predicting financial distress for South African firms
… Model (EMS model) for measuring and predicting financial distress for South African firms. The EMS model was applied to a 62-firm sample composed of two independent groups of 31 firms each, known as the extender and non-extender groups, for the period ranging from the financial years ended 2017 …
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Effects of Standardization in a Developing Manufacturing Environment
… a small-to-medium sized company while balancing financial health and operational excellence is a topic of significant interest across industries alike. It is generally accepted that when scaling operations, the behaviors that led to the success of a small company cannot be the same practices …
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Different methods of measuring the problems experienced by significant others of substance abusers
… dimensions of emotional, relationship, family, financial, health, legal, and physical violence problems. Paired t-tests were conducted between both administrations on each of the seven subscales of the SOC (Kirby et al., 2005). Currently, results indicate no significant difference between the …
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The impact of rights issues announcements on share price performance in South Africa
… this study investigates the effect of the "financial health" of the rights issuer, as measured in terms of the Altman Z-score, has on the abnormal returns of the share prices of the issuers. The final area of investigation is to test the ability of rights issuers on the JSE to time the …
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Catalyst or crutch? : the role of privatized land in Russian enterprise restructuring
… of restructuring efforts aimed at improving the financial health and efficiency of Russian firms. Advisors who formulated and implemented the programs intended to facilitate this process predicted that landowning enterprises would shield themselves from the uncertainties associated with leasing …
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Factors Associated with First-Year Student Retention in Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis of Student Confidence and Use of Support Services on Persistence and Success
… and time management, as well as personal and financial health, were positively correlated with retention. These insights underscore the importance of early academic and non-academic interventions to improve retention, particularly for at-risk student populations. Recommendations include …
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Assessing the Economic Viability of Arkansas Farms under the 2018 Farm Bill
… farms, this study simulates the production and financial characteristics of these farms over the life of the 2018 farm bill to quantify the effects of commodity program payments and crop insurance payments on overall financial health. The projected farm models generate large government support …
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