The British Accounting Review 36 (2004) 345–368 www.elsevier.com/locate/bar What do we know about audit quality?* Jere R. Francis* University of Missouri—Columbia‚ 432 Cornell Hall‚ Columbia‚ MO 65211‚ USA University of Melbourne‚ Victoria‚ Australia Abstract This paper reviews empirical research over the past 25 years‚ mainly from the United States‚ in order to assess what we currently know about audit quality with respect to publicly listed companies. The evidence indicates that outright audit
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Knowledge issues: Who is right or wrong? How do we know it? Introduction One morning‚ a man was walking in the centre of Lhasa. It was the 10th march 2008; this man was holding the Tibetan flag and was screaming “Free Tibet”. After a little bit‚ the monk and the population of Lhasa joined him. The police were controlling the march. One the 14 march‚ even more people joined the demonstration. The police reacted when the Tibetans started to burn Chinese’s shops and restaurants. Those actions
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philosophical underpinnings behind the existent and dominant paradigm in the Economics discipline explaining the ontological and epistemological rationale that is based on. So‚ how economists perceive the world around them? What sensors do they use for getting the vibes from that world? How they evaluate them? Who they want to inform and for whose sake? In fact‚ what’s the meaning of Economics as a profession and who are those that want to change that meaning and redefine it differently? All these questions
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Summary What are the secrets of India’s success in information technology? By using Porter’s Diamond Model‚ this article tries to answer that question. Based on the analysis‚ it seems the only determinant in the Porter’s Diamond that creates India’s success is Factor Condition (i.e. the Indian intellectual capital and “Indian connection” in Silicon Valley). The supporting determinant outside the diamond is the outsourcing trend in current global competition‚ which can be considered as the Chance
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The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing‚ there God has no end in view but to perfect His people. Thomas Guthrie The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond‚ and must be polished‚ or the luster of it will never appear. Daniel Defoe Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without Confucius In mineralogy‚ diamond (from the ancient Greek αδάμας – adámas "unbreakable") is a metastable allotrope of carbon‚ where the carbon atoms are
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New York embarked to discover the unspoiled life in little Cross Creek‚ Florida on her purchase of a 72-acre orange grove. She was not exactly given star status with the locals (referred by her as “Florida Crackers”) upon her arrival as they did not know what to make of this stranger with her notepad and typewriter (Biblio.com‚ n.d.). She would walk about watching and writing of the cultural observations which eventually lead to her first of signature stories‚ “Cracker Chidlings‚” but there were those
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Blood Diamonds outline i. Title (critical analysis of Blood diamonds) a. Blood diamonds refers how the collection of diamonds are possessed from rebels who murder and enslave their own innocent people to mine the diamonds in Sierra Leone. The diamonds are later sold illegally for ammunition for the rebel known as RUF. The title of relates to the film by the presenting how corrupt businesses and leaders use their powers to excavate diamonds from a country’s ongoing civil war and only escalate
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"What the Bleep Do We Know"‚ is a fascinating documentary film that utilizes fictional story lines‚ computer animation and discussions by several scientists and philosophers to present a viewpoint of the physical universe and human life within it‚ with connections to neuroscience and quantum physics. The general idea was that since quantum mechanics supposedly says that there isn’t one reality‚ but an infinite number of possibilities‚ one just has to be enlightened to an awareness of this‚ and then
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Africa. For the nonrenewable diamonds that are worn to show self worth and minerals that power our cellular devices. Human society‚ now more than ever‚ is based on the exploitation of others in order to create a luxurious lifestyle and a certain level of social acceptance at the price of other’s lives. Considered a sin in Christian and Judaism teachings‚ the love of money is a root for evil in humanity (Timothy 6:10). Man at his most vulnerable
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“Dogs will sit for you. Will you stand up for them?” by Nicholas Daily. This quote gets to me‚ knowing that dogs and cats are dying from people who don’t care about them. To some people‚ a dog is just an object in your life. However‚ according to the dog‚ you’re its whole life My friend Kylie and I were walking down the street in my neighborhood when we heard someone calling our names. It was Kylie’s younger sister. We turned to each other and said‚ “What does she want now?” Turns out she found
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