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Accounting fields' excellence.......2001-11-03
it is the basic, intermediate and advanced study text and theory explaining book for those accountant haven't studied any kind of theories on accounting before.
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Accounting and Economics, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Performance pricing links bank debt interest rate spreads to a borrower's performance via two options. Interest-decreasing performance pricing reduces spreads if credit quality improves. It is more common when prepayment is more likely or costly and when adverse selection costs are higher, and is less common when multiple performance measures better predict credit quality. Interest-increasing performance pricing increases spreads if credit quality deteriorates. It is more common when lenders reduce interest rates to add this provision, when downgrades are more likely, and when moral hazard costs are higher. We find lower spreads for contracts with interest increasing performance pricing.
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This digital document is a journal article from Critical Perspectives on Accounting, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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This paper offers a new foundation for investigating accounting policy in organizations. After recalling some characteristics illustrating the deficiency of Positive Accounting Theory (PAT) as a comprehensive, contextual and holistic analysis of accounting policy in organizations, positive research is blamed to fail to recognize the socially constitutive character of academic knowledge and its own underlying value predispositions. In devising an alternative, on the epistemological level, this paper introduces hermeneutic phenomenology as a new framework offering the possibility of exploring and constructing a new understanding of organization accounting policy in preserving its holistic and casuistic character.
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Managing suppliers is a complex process that is often underestimated. This book presents research carried out by a practising manager in the automotive industry, coupled with over six hundred interviews in automotive, aircraft and white goods industry, in order to describe the tools and techniques needed to better manage suppliers.
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The U.S. Supreme Court and the Electoral Process, Second Edition, Revised and Updated
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The U.S. Supreme Court, far from being above the political fray, has consistently made decisions that affect the electorate in profound ways—Bush v. Gore being but one example. This revised edition of the first over-all consideration of the role of the court in the electoral process is provocative and eye opening.
Of the first edition, CHOICE said, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT AND THE ELECTORAL PROCESS "plumbs the Supreme Court's constitutive apolitical role as `primary shaper of the electoral system' and reveals the pervasive involvement of the Court in the political process."
The U.S. Supreme Court—at least until Bush v. Gore—had seemed to float along in an apolitical haze in the mind of the electorate. It was the executive branch and the legislative branch that mucked about in politics getting dirty, the judicial branch kept its robes—and nose—clean. THE U.S. SUPREME COURT AND THE ELECTORAL PROCESS makes it abundantly clear however that before, during, and after the judicial decision that made George W. Bush the President of the United States, everything was, is, and will likely be politics—including the decisions handed down by the highest court in the land.
This revised and updated edition takes into account not only the recent judicial decision on the Presidency, but a myriad of others as well in which the U.S. Supreme Court has considered the constitutionality of a wide range of issues involving voting and elections, representation, and political participation. Practitioners and academics in both law and political science examine a number of court actions that directly affect how we choose those who govern us, and how those decisions have affected our electoral politics, constitutional doctrine and the fundamental concepts of democracy, including: racial redistricting, term limits, political patronage, campaign finance regulations, third party ballot access, and state ballot initiatives limiting civil liberties.
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Almost made me.......2003-02-15
want to go out and get in a fender-bender myself. We've all seen the famous Driver's Ed movies about the deadly physical and emotional consequences of auto accidents, but rarely has there been such in-depth treatment of the risk management and allocation consequences. I've read many books on insurance (and even reinsurance), but with the exception of Ostrager and Vyskocil's work, none have kept me turning the pages like Phillips and Chippendale. Look for more brilliance from this duo; the Simon and Garfunkel of the no-fault insurance literary community.
No-fault? It's your own dam fault if you don't buy this book.......2002-03-26
While I have long followed the work of Jerry J. Phillips, it is more than obvious to the intelligentsia that Stephen Chippendale is the powerhouse in this dynamic duo. Chippendale takes the reader on a tour de force fandango adventure in the no-fault world, it really is quite first rate. He might be a younger attorney, but that is not about to intimidate that bad boy
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- A Guide to the Philosphical Debate Over Majority Minority Districts
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The Appearance of Equality: Racial Gerrymandering, Redistricting, and the Supreme Court (Contributions in Legal Studies)
Christopher M. Burke
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An examination of the language of law in the area of political representation, this book considers the development and recognition of group claims brought pursuant to the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause in Supreme Court opinions. In his analysis, Burke highlights the different, discursive strategies, broadly identified as liberal and communitarian, used by the Supreme Court to justify the outcomes of various cases, and he argues that no particular strategy of justification is inherently politically conservative or liberal and that no conception of political representation is unassailable. Therefore, it is unlikely that the Supreme Court will articulate a stable measure of fair representation. The Supreme Court offers one more forum in the deliberation over what is fair representation; however, it is not likely to provide minority communities with a legal answer to the problem of political underrepresentation. As such, this book tells the uncertain story of the creation of political fairness by the Supreme Court. The language used to characterize what is fair and representative, and the theoretical designs which the rhetoric reflects, allows us to formulate concepts of fair representation as legal standards evolve. By placing the debate over fair representation in not only political and legal but also philosophical terms, we are better able to understand the inevitable tensions that drive the concept of representation into new, ill-defined, and contentious areas.
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A Guide to the Philosphical Debate Over Majority Minority Districts.......2006-12-26
If Barrack Obama is elected President, the whole issue of majority minority districts that this book focuses on may seem to be very quaint, but right now the question of the legal controversies surrounding the creation of majority minority is one of the legal topics legislative redistricters and their lawyers must master. Reading this book is like attending a long seminar at a highly ranked law school on this subject.
The simple fact underlying this book is that in many areas of our country it is very difficult if not impossible for a candidate who is the choice of minority communities--often but not always a minority himself or herself--to get the votes of enough white voters to win an election. The author of this book repeatedly agrees with this truism, but also expresses concerns about the effects of grouping minority voters together to maximize their political clout.
I first read this book in 2001, when I was navigating my way through the political and legal landmines of redistricting state house seats for the majority minority city of Philadelphia. I found author Christopher M. Burke's interweaving of Supreme Court cases, law journal articles, and numerous books to be an extrememly valuable guide to understanding the somewhat conflicting case law, being able to explain it to others, and being able to act both legally and effectively to serve public interests.
Rereading this book recently, I am struck at the depth of the author's research and passsion for this rather obscure subject. This is not the book to read for an in-depth political look at majority minority districts, and it is not the book to read to gain insights into their changing nature, the changing nature of the Black Caucus in the U.S. Congress and other legislative bodies. Nor is it the book to read if one wants to compare the growth of black and Latino representation in Congress--both covered by the Voting Rights Act--with the growth in Congress and other legislative bodies of Asians, Jews, Americans of Italian descent, and women, none of whom are covered by the Voting Rights Act.
What this book does far better than any other that I have come across is to give the reader a well-sourced, well-researched sense of the debate over majority-minority districts. The politics of this issue are confused, because the ideological sympathies of the Democratic Party and the national political interests of the Republican Party on one side are engaged in battle with the ideological sympathies of the Republican Party and the national political interests of the Democratic Party on the other side.
To make sense of this confusion, the author wisely reframes this question as a contest between philosophical liberals--who may be politically liberal or conservative, Democratic or Republican--and philopsophical communitarians, who also may be politically liberal or conservative, Democratic or Republican. Philosophical liberals are those focused on individual rights, while communitarians are those focused on group rights.
Justices and other actors have demonstrated an ability to strike both liberal and communitarian chords, the author makes clear.
The key case in majority minority jurisprudence, the author accurately states, is Shaw vs. Reno, 125 L.Ed 2nd 511,113 S.Ct.2816 (1993)(Shaw I). In this case, Justice O'Connor, writing for a divided Court, declined to ban the creation of majority-minority districts where alternatives existed, but banned redistricters from allowing a concern for the creation of majority minority districts to overshadow all other concerns. Majority minority districts could be created as part of drawing districts for incumbents, or as part of another general approach, but not as a goal in and of itself.
Districting, O'Connor said, "seeks to represent a plurality of values...."
She attacked geographically distant majority minority districts, warning of "an uncomfortable resemblance to political apartheid."
Half of this book focuses on Shaw vs. Reno and the subsequent cases that it controlled. Before reading Shaw vs. Reno and its progeny, it is good to read this book to gain a heightened awareness of the issues at stake.
Although the author has the law professor's habit of continually stating opposition views to whatever case he is discussing, he makes clear his symphathy is with the Shaw Court's views. But those read this book for the purpose of gaining a full understanding of the issues will benefit from his thorough treatment of the case law and the philosophies behind it, even if they disagree with his ultimate conclusions.
It is a short book that could have been shortened even more by more thorough editing. But the repetitions do serve the purpose of drilling in the author's key conclusions.
There are no natural redistricting plans waiting to found, he says. There is no redistricting plan than will be universally seen as fair, with all winners and no losers, he says.
Communities are created by redistricters and not discovered, he says. There are legitimate pros and cons for the creation of more majority districts, and pros and cons for not creating more minority districts, he says. The lawyers on all sides, he warns, are political actors. Those involved in the redistricting process, he says, have no choice but to fully study the issues and make and defend political decisions that are as wise as possible.
Each election, he warns, will bring new facts and new court decisions to the table. The process of creating political districts--majority minority or not--is an inherently temporary one. The issues will with be us for a long time.
One thing he does not consider in this 1999 book is what happens if the political dynamic changes so radically that African-American candidates start repeatedly carrying predominantly or overwhelmingly white districts.
He undoubtedly did not consider that because he did not consider it possible, although he notes that African American incumbents in Georgia, forced by the Supreme Court to run in predominantly white districts, were re-elected.
But he makes clear that the perceived need for majority minority districts is based on the peceived permanency of racially polarized voting patterns. The death of these racially polarized voting patterns--if it occurs under Obama or someone else and subsequent candidates--would obviously throw this whole issue into confusion and marginal significance.
With nearly 50 pages of footnotes, citations of 63 Law Review articles, 96 books, and 72 cases, the author cannot be faulted for laziness. His calls for intelligent and informed political involvement, and thinking through the elements of the issues that have deeply divided both political parties and the and federal courts, are well worth following.
He could have shorter paragraphs, and less philosophical jargon. But he offers a valuable guide to the uncertainties of a contested area of the law, and does it by a thorough study of the the public record and scholarly sources. Those interested in navigating through contradictions, questions, temporary fixes, rhetorical strategies, philosphical debates along with normal case law will find this book to be highly useful and informative.
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Representation Rights and the Burger Years
Nancy L. Maveety
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Maveety argues that the Supreme Court under Burger revolutionized the constitutional view of political representation
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In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken on an increased political prominence, due largely to such controversial issues as abortion, the separation of church and state, and civil rights. Because such issues could be affected by a Court member's personal beliefs and experiences, the question of how race, religion, and gender influence Supreme Court appointments is a crucial one. In this work, Barbara Perry explores the impact of these factors on the Court, placing the presidential nominations in their historical and political contexts. She examines the question of whether justices should be chosen in order to create a "representative" court that reflects elements in American society. The book is based on both primary and secondary sources, including interviews with seven members of the Court. Following a detailed introduction, Perry provides a historical analysis of the appointments of eight Catholics, five Jews, one black, and one woman, revealing a link between the appointments and the political, social, electoral, and demographic contexts in which they were made. She traces the decline in importance of the religious factor, as the ascendence of religious groups in mainstream politics no longer made it necessary for presidents to maintain a representative Court position. Representative considerations, however, will continue to play a role in the selection process, and Perry argues for a reconciliation between the undeniable pull of politics and ideology and the demands for merit-based appointments. This work will add an important new perspective to studies of the Supreme Court, as well as to the study of law, political science, and American history.
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Supreme Court Cases on Political Representation, 1787-2001
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Impact of Arbuscular Mycorrhizas on Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Ecosystems (Advances in Life Sciences)
S. Gianinazzi
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This book is an updated and revised version of the Oxford Chemistry Primer entitled Periodicity and the p-Block Elements. In addition to having updated and substantially rewritten parts of the first book, the most obvious change is that certain aspects of s-block element chemistry are now discussed explicitly and so this group of elements are therefore included in the title. The author has sought to provide an overview of some of the important trends (periodicity) found in the properties of the s- and p-block elements and the compounds that they form, and to provide the reader with some simple 'rules of thumb' whereby they might appreciate and better understand these trends.
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Brief look at the s block........2000-06-06
This book is excellent provided you are trying to either refresh old chemistry courses or are trying to learn the bare minimum about the S block and periodic properties. The book is not strong in reinforcing the principles provided in it's pages.
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Letters to Mother: The Early Cambridge Period
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HERBACEOUS VEGETATION DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE BENEATH HONEY MESQUITE (PROSOPIS GLANDULOSA) IN THE SOUTH TEXAS PLAINS.(Statistical Data Included): An article from: The Texas Journal of Science
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Title: HERBACEOUS VEGETATION DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE BENEATH HONEY MESQUITE (PROSOPIS GLANDULOSA) IN THE SOUTH TEXAS PLAINS.(Statistical Data Included)
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