NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY Nicholas Bloom John Van Reenen Working Paper 16019 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16019 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 May 2010 This paper has been prepared for a chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics Volume IV edited by David Card and Orley Ashenfelter. We would like to thank the Economic and Social Research Council for their financial support through the Center for
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current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0268-6902.htm Past control risk and current audit fees Past control risk Thomas G. Calderon‚ Li Wang and Thomas Klenotic George W. Daverio School of Accountancy‚ The University of Akron‚ Akron‚ Ohio‚ USA 693 Abstract Purpose – The authors posit that audit fees are driven by historical risk factors and risk encountered in the current period. The purpose of this paper is to focus on historical
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Strategic Audit Name Institution PART A: Advantages of a Strategic Audit A strategic audit measures the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the performance of a firm based on its past performance. This information will be important to the management in regard to the making of strategic business decisions (Victoria‚ 2010). Strategic auditing has many advantages. First‚ strategic auditing fosters quality decisions resulting from a conceptual understanding of
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overall growth and success of the organization. Retention of key employees is critical to the long term health and success of any organization. Focusing on employee retention techniques can positively impact the organization as it increases employee productivity‚ performance‚ quality of work‚ profits‚ and reduce turnover and absenteeism. Employee retention is a process in which the employees are encouraged to remain with the organization for the maximum period of time or until the completion of the project
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Audit Case- Tommy O’Connell The audit case I chose was case #1‚ Tommy O’Connell- Audit Senior. O’Connell is a newly appointed senior auditor for a big 5 firm‚ and he was given the tough audit engagement for the Altamesa Manufacturing Company. Tommy figured this engagement would help him get in good with the partner that was in charge of the audit‚ Jack Morrison. The only problem was he was assigned Carl‚ who is a fresh-faced staff accountant who has been working at the company for less than three
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Audit exam 1 Study online at quizlet.com/_flu67 1. A Which is usually included in an engagement letter? (A reference to GAAP/A reference to GAAS) A. Yes/Yes B. No/No C. Yes/No D. No/Yes 2. A Which of the following statements is true? A) Auditors have generally found that the most effective and efficient way to conduct an audit is to obtain some assurance for each class of transaction and for the ending balance of the related account. B) Management ’s assertions follow and
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COMMUNICATIONS AUDIT I. Definition Communications Audit is a study to analyze the productivity of companies that allocate a large budget and work energy for their marketing communications and image building as well as those companies that are planning an IPO. II. Measurings covered by the audit The most important feature of a Communications Audit is that it can measure qualitative as well as quantitative values. The items that can be measured are: · Precision of the implementation
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reporting process. Auditors need to remember that they are serving the public interest and not the interests of client management. 1-2. The audit opinion formulation process is a systematic approach by which the auditor evaluates the risk of being associated with a client‚ through the process of gathering and evaluating audit evidence‚ to determining the type of audit opinion that should be rendered. The stages and outcome of each stage are as follows: • Assessing Client Acceptance and Retention:
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THE FINANCIAL AUDIT – THE GUARANTOR OF THE TRUE AND FAIR VIEW SUPPLIED BY THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Boa-Avram Florin Babe-Bolyai University‚ Cluj-Napoca‚ Faculty of Economical Science and Business Administration‚ St. Teodor Mihali‚ No. 58-60‚ 400591‚ Romania‚ botaavramflorin@yahoo.com‚ Tel: 0740-886491 Mati Dumitru Babe-Bolyai University‚ Cluj-Napoca‚ Faculty of Economical Science and Business Administration‚ St. Teodor Mihali‚ No. 58-60‚ 400591‚ Romania‚ dmatis@econ.ubbcluj.ro‚ Tel:
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Abnormally High Audit Fees Impair Audit Quality? Jong-Hag Choi‚ Jeong-Bon Kim‚ and Yoonseok Zang SUMMARY: This study examines whether and how audit quality proxied by the magnitude of absolute discretionary accruals is associated with abnormal audit fees‚ that is‚ the difference between actual audit fee and the expected‚ normal level of audit fee. The results of various regressions reveal that the association between the two is asymmetric‚ depending on the sign of the abnormal audit fee. For observations
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