Browsing Washburn Faculty Research by Title
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Factors Affecting the Accuracy of the Active Medication List: Information for Health Care Managers
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2014-10-1)Background: The Active Medication List (AML), part of the electronic health record (EHR), lists a patient's current medications. Its accuracy and completeness may be affected by clinicians gathering information (List ... -
Family Firm Voting and Managerial Control : The Effects on Share Repurchases
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2018-06-1)The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether family firms (FFs) differ from non-family firms (NFFs) in their propensity and likelihood of repurchasing shares. -
Family Furniture Corporation: Analyzing the Effect of a Pure Capital Structure Change on the Value of a Frim
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2007-08-1)The new CEO of a manufacturing firm is using the opportunity afforded by her recently acquired leadership role to analyze how introducing debt into the firm's capital structure might increase the value of the firm. The ... -
Femininity and Marketability of Female Athletes: An Economic Extension of "The Female Apologetic"
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2006-11-1)Scholarship in sociology and gender studies suggests a female apologetic may exist in the sports world, whereby female athletes feel the need to apologize for participating in the masculine realm of sports by emphasizing ... -
Feminization of the Labor Force and Structural Adjustment: Effects on Job Segregation by Sex
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2005-08-1)In Cagatay and Ozler's (1995) exploration of the effects of development and structural adjustment on the feminization of the workforce, the authors found that adjusting countries had larger female shares of their workforces ... -
Financial Crisis, Firms, Reporting Entities, and the Going Concern Assumption
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2017-03-1)Orthodox academic and accounting standard setting literature has historically viewed accounting reporting entities as independent units with an indefinite life. The 1929 and 2008 financial crises are used as focal points ... -
The Financial Performance of U.S. Commercial Banks 2001-2010
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2011-08-1)We examine the financial performance, risk, changing revenue and asset mix, prospects for future shareholder value creation and executive compensation of the 15 largest commercial banks in the US from 2001-2010. Aggregate ... -
Financial Statement Fraud: The Saga Continues
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2005-01-1)Financial statement fraud slammed its way into public awareness with hurricane force in 2002. Reacting to a need to shore up public confidence in financial markets, the Congress and President of the United States acted ... -
Firm Performance and Earnings Management Around Dividend Change Announcements
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2018-03-1)Studies that fail to fully consider how performance affects firms' earnings and dividend smoothing activities will identify deviations of discretionary accruals and real activities from sub industry averages as unusual or ... -
Firm Value and the Debt-Equity Choice
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2004-08-1)This paper offers gain to leverage formulations showing how changes in equity and debt discount rates influence firm value. Applications of these formulations illustrate the impact on firm value with risk-free debt and ... -
For All Good Reasons: Role of Values in Social Sustainability
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2011-05-1)Human resource management practices are at the heart of most organizations' social sustainability efforts. Despite the importance of human values for the design and implementation of such practices, few researchers analyzed ... -
Forget Theory--Five Common Sense Rules Govern the Regulation of Electric Utilities
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2008-03-1)Since the early 20th century, prices for retail electricity have been set through a highly structured process termed ratemaking. This process involves utilities and numerous other participants with opposing interests ... -
Framework for an Ethics Course for the Information Technology Student
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2006-02-1)Social and ethical issues have and will continue to confront information technology professionals. As such, both the Association of Computing Machinery and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. organizations ... -
Gamma-ray Bursts and Terrestrial Planetary Atmospheres
We describe results of modelling the effects on Earth-like planets of long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) within a few kiloparsecs. A primary effect is generation of nitrogen oxide compounds which deplete ozone. Ozone ... -
Gamma-Ray Bursts And The Earth Exploration Of Atmospheric Biological Climatic And Biogeochemical Effects
Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are likely to have made a number of significant impacts on the Earth during the last billion years. The gamma radiation from a burst within a few kpc would quickly deplete much of the Earth's ... -
Gamma-Ray Bursts As A Threat To Life On Earth
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are likely to have made a number of significant impacts on the Earth during the last billion years. The gamma radiation from a burst within a few kiloparsecs would quickly deplete much of the Earth's ... -
Gap Attack: Eight Steps to Get That New Hire
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2015-08-1)Recent statements published in several quality practitioner targeted accounting publications succinctly addressed issues surrounding the talent pool of entry level managerial accountants along with industry employer ability ... -
Gender Gap in Undergraduate Business Programs
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2010-11-1)In the last several years there has been much scholarship in the area of the "reverse gender gap" in colleges and universities, as there have been more women than men attending and graduating from colleges and universities ... -
General Education Course-Embedded University Student Learning Outcomes
Results of the assessment of all five University Student Learning Outcomes in General Education courses (Critical & creative thinking, Communication, Global Citizenship, Ethics & Diversity, Information Literacy and Technology, ... -
Global E-Courses Presented Using Off the Shelf Hardware and Software: Experience from Teaching Courses Overseas
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2012-02-1)The traditional "lecture to a classroom of students" paradigm is constrained by geography and is outdated in the age of globalization. Globalization creates the need to provide access to educational resources to anyone, ...