decision making process requires information. accounting is the most important source of information. in 1998, the international federation of accountants issued a statement about the scope and using of accounting. it identified 4 stages for using accounting information: cost determination, planning and financial control, reduction of resources waste and creation the value. this study was desig...

BACKGROUND While prior studies have shown that public and private hospitals differ in their rates of suspicion and isolation of patients who are at risk for tuberculosis (TB), no study has investigated whether this variation is due to differences in the impact of patient case-mix on hospitals or to variations attributable to specific hospital practice patterns. OBJECTIVE To investigate patien...

BACKGROUND Studies in bipolar disorder (BD) to date are limited in their ability to provide a whole-disease perspective--their scope has generally been confined to a single disease phase and/or a specific treatment. Moreover, most clinical trials have focused on the manic phase of disease, and not on depression, which is associated with the greatest disease burden. There are few longitudinal st...

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) enable an organization’s members to telecommute from home or while traveling. Although members may use computers that are shared, borrowed, or rented from others to connect to a VPN, VPN protocols, such as IPsec, typically do not authenticate the configuration of users’ computers. If a computer used for VPN access is compromised, an attacker can exploit it to gai...

Successful public-private-partnership (PPP) implementation can not be achieved without the active participation of private sector companies. This paper examines the decision-making of private sector companies in public works delivered by the PPP model on the basis of social responsibility theory. It proposes that private sector companies should indentify objectives of entering into PPP projects...