Advanced SAS® Macros Steven First‚ Katie Ronk‚ Systems Seminar Consultants‚ Madison‚ WI Abstract This hands-on workshop presents some intermediate-to-advanced macro topics such as macro referencing environments‚ macro interfaces (SYMGET‚ SYMPUT‚ EXECUTE‚ RESOLVE‚ PROC SQL)‚ macro quoting‚ and macro functions. Good practices and alternatives to macros are also discussed. After a short lecture‚ attendees will perform hands-on exercises until the end of the session. Introduction The SAS® programming
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1. Introduction Piele SA started a budget committee consisting of the chief accountant‚ a cost accountant‚ a technical director‚ and heads of the production departments. The committee was formed to help develop a budget using the zero-based budgeting system. Piele SA’s budget was based on the expected level of activity in sales that the firm expected to generate during the year. Piele SA started its budget from zero‚ and continued to re-evaluate and adjust targets throughout the operating year;
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...........................................................................................................3 2.2.2 South Africa’s Current Account Deficit ..........................................................................................................3 3. DEVELOPMENTS OBSERVED IN THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKETS.........................................................................3 3.1 Impact on South Africa’s Balance of Payments ..........................................................
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I. Introduction Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has received greatly attention in the media in recent times partly due to the poor financial performance in the past years. The purpose of this paper is to analysis the corporate governance model of the company SAS‚ and identify the key corporate issues that may be behind the bad performance that the company is undergoing. The airline industry is especially sensible to business cycles and the financial crisis bit it hard. That is why in order to develop
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You have been hired by the San Antonio Fitness company (better known as SA Fitness) located in San Antonio‚ Texas‚ to develop a working database system to better track their clients‚ trainers‚ workouts‚ and personal training. SA Fitness offers several types of membership plans to accommodate anyone’s needs. A membership plan has the beginning date‚ an initiation fee‚ a monthly fee‚ a duration (number of months in the plan contract)‚ and a personal training fee. Once a person signs up for a membership
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Using IF THEN ELSE statements‚ LENGTH is to be use so that the new coloum create (Patient) will have defined length that is $12. data newclass; set sashelp.class; length Patient $12.; If weight <=84 then Patient= ’UnderWeight ’; else If weight >84 and weight <=100 then Patient= ’ProperWeight ’; else If weight >100 then Patient= ’OverWeight ’; else Patient= ’OutLier ’; run; ====================================================================== SELECT WHEN END statement
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What is SAS SAS is an abbreviation for Statement of Auditing Standards‚ which provides guidelines on generally accepted auditing standards. Accounting Standard Board (ASB) issues them on matters that deal with the preparation and issuing of audit reports for non-users. Statement of Auditing Standards has different sections - each dealing with professional standard with an assigned standard number. SAS 115 It establishes the procedures and process of communicating internal control related matters
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SAS History SAS was founded in 1976 to help a wide range of customers‚ from pharmaceutical companies and banks to academic and governmental entities. SAS originally emerged as a program called the Statistical Analysis System. The program was developed in 1966 at North Carolina State University under a grant from the National Institutes of Health to analyze vast amounts of agricultural data collected through the United States Department of Agriculture. The early leaders of the project were NCSU
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Introductions This article is about SAS Company which operates much differently than other companies. SAS software was originally created by Goodnight and North Carolina State University colleagues to analyze agricultural-research data. Today‚ SAS is best known for sifting massive mountains of data for FORTUNE 500 companies and other organizations most people have heard of. Insurance companies use SAS to flag fraudulent claims. Retailers use SAS to find profitable places to put stores and products
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MFE 6390 Spring 2013 Residual analysis in SAS (continued) In the previous two lectures‚ we learnt how to obtain the residuals of the estimation and to formally test for heteroscedasticity in the model. In this lecture‚ we will focus on testing the model errors for serial correlation. Recall that‚ in order to make valid inferences using the linear regression estimates‚ we need the errors of the model (i.e. residuals) to
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