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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"financial transparency"”.
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Change Leadership Project Plan: District Financial Transparency and Sustainable 1:1 Business Model
… – Very few administrators understand District financial data and trends </li> <li>Context – Administrative communication structures are not always consistent </li> <li>Conditions – Superintendent is retiring in June 2017, and Superintendent and Chief School Business Official (CSBO) hold the …
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Information technology governance and local public financial management reform : the case of Bangalore, India
… years around interrelated concerns over the transparency of local government financial management and reporting systems and the capacity of urban local bodies to implement modern performance budgeting and accrual accounting structures. This dissertation examines the relationship between these …
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Social Order and the Culture of Corruption in India
… strict implementation of these laws, the lack of financial transparency, and how the organizational makeup of the Indian society makes it easier to continue such illegal practices.</p>
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Corporate governance under stress : an institutional perspective on the transformation of corporate governance in France and Germany
… political economy by examining the impact of financial deregulation on corporate governance in the two main continental European economies, France and Germany. It investigates the process of transformation of the systems of corporate governance of these two countries toward a greater …
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Essays on Motivating Investment
… Trusts‘ uses of the audit process to increase financial transparency, and their ability to attract and/or maintain reasonable access to capital investment. I find that capital investment is positively and significantly associated with three commonly used audit-related attributes: auditor …
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Mapping and tracking the complexity of financial flows through non-state non-profit (faith-based) health providers in Kenya
… often historically remained elusive in terms of financial transparency. This thesis reports on a multiple case study conducted with two non-profit faith-based health providers in Kenya, namely the Africa Inland Church Kijabe Hospital; and Nyumbani-Children of God Relief Institute in Nairobi …
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The future of lease accounting and its impact on corporate real estate decisions
… have on corporate real estate decisions. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (SFASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) plan to establish a unified set of principle-based accounting systems into a unified set of principle-based standards in an effort to improve …
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Three essays on corporate default prediction : special reference to corporate governance, default correlation and capital structure dynamics
… concentration, low shareholder rights, low financial transparency and disclosures, and less board effectiveness. Second, in-sample and out-of-sample tests support the incremental contribution of corporate governance information on default prediction, when compared with the models involving …
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Analyzing Earnings Management for Cross-listed Firms and Interaction between Two Futures Exchanges
… rights, more institutional investors, and higher financial transparency are less likely to engage in earnings management. In addition, in countries with strong investor protection or market monitoring, the level of earnings management is more pronounced for illiquid firms as compared to liquid …
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Modes and challenges of accountability and transparency in the financial management systems in grant aided schools: a case of Kasisi girls and Kafue boys secondary schools.
Accountability and Transparency in the management of school finances are one of the major responsibilities of Headteachers and the School Financial Committee (SFCs) since the implementation of the 1996 education policy as supported by the Constitution of Zambia article 198. Grant-aided schools and …
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Modes and challenges of accountability and transparency in the financial management systems in grant aided schools: a case of Kasisi girls and Kafue boys secondary schools.
Accountability and Transparency in the management of school finances are one of the major responsibilities of Headteachers and the School Financial Committee (SFCs) since the implementation of the 1996 education policy as supported by the Constitution of Zambia article 198. Grant-aided schools and …
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A comparative analysis of locally owned banks in the United Arab Emirates
… December 2006. Within a challenging climate of financial transparency and limited data availability, .this research provides a benchmark and a unique league table of efficiency performances between 1998 and 2003 for comparative analysis between local banks in the UAE for present and future …
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Access to debt finance and its determinants in Uganda: an empirical investigation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
… costs, firm age, firm size, industry, financial transparency, collateral, education, entrepreneurial experience and gender as determinants of access to debt finance. To achieve the main objective and two subsidiary objectives, a survey was conducted based on a population of 128,000 …
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Essays in Health Care and Public Economics
… 1, 2005. Its goals are to improve governance and financial transparency in the charitable sector, to increase its oversight, and to prevent fraudulent solicitations. NIA imposes certain restrictions on charity managers and boards, and explicitly requires organizations whose annual revenue is at or …