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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"local office"”.
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Essays on the effect of local offices and economic policy uncertainty in the private equity industry
… suggest that the physical presence of a local office of PE firms can actually make a difference for foreign investments. With a local office, operating performance of PE firms is higher after the buyouts. Local offices are especially beneficial for performance the higher the perceived …
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Yorkshire politics, 1658-1688.
… acquisition and exercise of their power In the locality and their political relationship with the crown In parliament and in the locality. In order to investigate the nature of the gentry's authority In the county, each chapter contains sections on local office holding, the gentry's Influence In …
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The Client Acceptance and Retention Process: How Policies and Procedures Are Developed and Implemented Within Audit Firms
… setting, I interview risk management and local office partners across multiple firms to gather firm-specific and partner-specific information about client acceptance and retention policies and procedures. My results contribute to the existing literature on the processes and procedures …
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Audit Office Closure Risk and Audit Outcomes
… better understand factors associated with audit office closures and how the risk of office closure relates to audit outcomes, including audit quality and fees. Factors associated with office closure include small office size, lower office growth, proximity to regulators, unfavorable local …
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Educators’ and learners’ views on factors that contribute to poor performance of grade 12 physical science learners in the uMkhanyakude District in KwaZulu-Natal
… parental support, lack of support from education local office, lack of resources, and a negative attitude towards Physical Science as the main factors that contribute to poor performance in Grade 12 Physical Sciences. The inductive analysis of the teachers’ interview transcripts revealed that …
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Exploratory study of barriers to use of Feigenbaum's quality cost strategy within design engineering firms
… to classify and record costs of quality. A local office of a large engineering firm was recruited to apply the system on a hand-picked design project. Using qualitative study with a phenomenology approach, records were examined and participants were interviewed.</p> <p>The observed concepts …
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Auditors' Reactions to and Companies' Control of Classification Shifting
… auditor (i.e., a Big Four auditor) at a local audit office is likely to mitigate the classification shifting behavior of an economically important client. However, after the passage of SOX, a high-quality auditor (i.e., a Big Four auditor, an auditor with long tenure, or an …
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A linguistic and cultural analysis of localisation practices on oil and gas company websites.
… seeks to understand the nature and degree of localisation of the websites in this industry. This thesis introduces two notions of global, and seeks to examine the relationship between them: the first of which is the Global reach or operations of companies and the second is where a companys …
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Local government and society in early modern England: Hertfordshire and Essex, C. 1590-- 1630
… addresses the nature of the relationship between local government and the central government, the social structure of the two counties as reflected in the annual lists of the justices of the peace, and any administrative or social connections between Hertfordshire and Essex. Office holding was not …
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Essays in Transportation and Electoral Politics
… 1 – The Importance of Transportation Policies in Local Elections Building and maintaining transportation systems is one of the most important functions of local government. It is a subject that concerns local residents, jurisdictions spend a lot of money on, and local politicians use to their …
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Chief inhabitants and their areas of influence: local ruling groups in Essex and Suffolk parishes 1630-1720.
… how this ruling status was manifested in parish office holding. It shows that the group which termed itself 'chief inhabitants' represented a number of the highest officers in each parish. Such people often formed ruling cliques, through their control � of parish or borough forums, which acted as …
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The Journeys of Women in Local Elected Office: From Community Engagement to Making Meaningful Contributions
… underrepresented across every level of elected office in the United States. More than 30 years after the supposed “Year of the Woman,” women hold less than 30% of the elected positions in local, state, and federal office. In the past, researchers attributed the paucity of women in office to …