Browsing by Subject "Corporations"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)This study draws upon agency theory and the results of previous empirical research to suggest (1) a model to explain managers' preferences for alternative methods of allocating income taxes; (2) a model to explain managers' ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)A multi-method approach is used to examine firms that announced stock repurchases on the open market during 1988 and 1989. An event study methodology is used to determine the abnormal returns of these firms relative to ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)In the 1918-1921 period, Congress enacted tax laws to grant a tax reprieve to business combinations aimed at helping them to withstand the vicissitudes of the marketplace. However, since that time business combinations ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)Prior bankruptcy studies have primarily used financial ratio based models to discriminate between matched pairs of bankrupt and non-bankrupt firms. Typically, the focus is on the year of bankruptcy, and the years(s) preceding ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)The research addressed the effects on reported assets and net income of the application of the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 12 which requires that marketable equity ...
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(2011-05-18)This dissertation uses multilevel modeling to examine the effects of corporate and community characteristics on rates of sulfur dioxide emitted by facilities in the electrical power industry. The conceptual framework draws ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)The corporate control hypothesis predicts that an efficacious takeover market will facilitate the efficient utilization of societal resources and result in management decisions that serve to maximize shareholder wealth. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)This research effort proposes to develop and test an integrated and extended model of strategic decision making. The model is developed using an interactionist framework that emphasizes the relevance of both the person and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the perceptions of school and corporate PR directors with regard to their general job satisfaction. The Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) was used to measure the job satisfaction ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)This dissertation investigates changes made by early and late adopters prior to adoption of SFAS No. 87: Employers' Accounting for Pensions. The research question studied is whether late adopters use the transition period ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)The subject of inter-firm asset management has not been explicitly addressed in the literature to date. The existence of potential net benefits accruing from the inter-firm management of various categories of assets presents ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)The purpose of this study was to collect empirical evidence concerning the investor decision relevance and usefulness of alternative intersegment cost allocation methods employed in current segmental financial disclosure ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)The problem addressed in this research concerns the various methods available for accounting for business combinations. Currently there are two acceptable methods for accounting for business combinations- the purchase and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)This dissertation examines several welfare effects of (1) an intracountry transfer payment and (2) a tax on corporate capital. While both topics are concerned with tax incidence, the analysis of each are even more closely ...