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Independence (in fact as well as in appearance) is widely thought to be necessary for the quality of audits, and audit quality is often equated with independence. Private incentives to demand (and supply) independent certification of financial statements are thought to be insufficient, thus the need to mandate independence through regulation. This study presents data from a field experiment on ...

Network logs are the key to many critical functions such as network security, network monitoring and network management. They play an important role in intrusion detection and early warning for potential worm and virus attacks. However, network log data are under-utilized -largely ignored until the occurrence of an event that requires back tracking for diagnostic purposes. There are two main re...

Organizations have recognized the need for high quality information and academics have proposed several methods to measure and improve information quality. One such method is to manage information as an information product (IP). Many modeling methods for information manufacturing systems have been described. Almost all of these lack the ability to systematically represent the manufacturing proc...

While learning systems offer great promise in reducing cost and improving quality of control applications [12, 11], they also raise thorny issues in terms of the mismatch between the quality standards that these systems must achieve [10] and the available technology. There is widespread agreement [7, 8, 9, 12, 11] that current verification technology does not apply to online learning systems, w...

One of the most fundamental dimensions of information quality is access. For many organizations, a large part of their information assets is locked away in Unstructured Textual Information (UTI) in the form of email, letters, contracts, call notes, and spreadsheet. In addition to internal UTI, there is also a wealth of publicly available UTI on websites, in newspapers, courthouse records and ot...

Sixty-four looked after and accommodated males aged 13-16 had an assessment of their quality of life using Paediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) and Quality of Life in Care (QOLIC). The participants were from a Scottish residential centre for young people with severe emotional and behavioural difficulties. The total sample of 64 participants consists of two distinct groups: residential ...

Literature presents attributes of effective quality management in building software systems. The value of the capability maturity model (CMM), ISO 9000, and total quality management (TQM) concepts in managing software quality has been widely acknowledged. However, shortcomings of these approaches have also been recognized. For instance, scholars have acknowledged CMM implementation difficulties...

We extend Dechow and Dichev’s [2002] model of current accruals quality (CAQ) to consider total accruals quality (TAQ). While the two measures are conceptually similar (both reflect the standard deviation of the residuals from the mapping of accruals into lead and lag cash flows), they differ in terms of the definitions of accruals and cash flows as well as the number of lead and lag cash flow t...

Guaranteeing a certain level of quality for multimedia streaming applications is quite well understood in terms of network QoS, but it is much more tenuous in terms of perceptual quality as perceived by the user. In this paper, we classify video quality measurement schemes and review existing approaches with a focus on non-intrusive quality metrics, which do not require access to the reference ...