Since 1999, regulators have attempted to improve the monitoring of financial reporting by exerting significant pressure on firms to appoint financial experts to their audit committees. Yet, many firms have been reluctant to do so, which has made these firms more prone to financial reporting problems. We examine appointments of financial experts to the audit committees of S&P 1500 firms during t...

This paper describes a supervised solution for detecting the polarity scores of tweets or headline news in the financial domain, submitted to the SemEval 2017 Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis on Financial Microblogs and News Task. The premise is that it is possible to understand market reaction over a company stock by measuring the positive/negative sentiment contained in the financial tweets an...

The balanced scorecard has proved itself as a valuable strategic tool in measuring not only the financial performance, but also the customer focus, internal business processes and learning and growth of a company. To date, very little has been done to incorporate new breakthroughs in financial management in the financial perspective of the balanced scorecard. In this study, new trends in financ...

In assessing financial stability, the emphasis is on downside risks rather than the most likely outcome. While the entire distribution of indicators of company financial health is reviewed, the focus is on those companies in the tails, since they may be more exposed to financial distress. Measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode, etc) taken across a group of highly heterogeneous compani...

This article explains how data envelopment analysis can be used as a decision support system to perform financial statement analysis and demonstrates the benefits DEA offers over traditional financial statement analysis techniques. A major advantage of the DEA approach is that it clearly identifies the factors contributing to the performance of company over its competitors.

Management by Objectives has certain limitations that are not easily overcome simply by including non-financial objectives or by promoting a system of values imported from outside the management system. What is needed, therefore, is a new management system capable of enriching and making sense of the objectives. Management by Missions (MBM) rises above the limitations of MBO and, at the same ti...

rapid urbanization and industrialization, population growth and economic growth in developing countries make management of municipal solid waste more complex comparing with developed countries. furthermore, the conventional municipal solid waste management approach often is reductionists, not tailored to handle complexity. therefore, the need to a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary approach r...

This paper examines the relationship between financial stress and absenteeism. A conceptual model was derived from a Health Promotion Model and empirically tested to investigate relationships among determinants (individual characteristics), stress (financial stress), physical and psychological responses (organizational commitment and health), and absenteeism. Using data from white-collar worker...