Purpose While the main purpose of reporting – e.g. for taxes is to gauge economic state a company, fact that done at pre-determined dates distorts results. For example, create larger impression their productivity, companies fire temporary workers before date and re-hire then right away. The this study decide how avoid such distortion. Design/methodology/approach This aims come up with solution ...

Abstract Specifying budgets and deadlines using a process algebra like CSP requires an explicit notion of time. The tock -CSP encoding embeds rich flexible approach for modelling discrete-time behaviours with powerful tool support. It uses event , interpreted to mark passage Analysis, however, has traditionally used the standard semantics CSP, which is inadequate reasoning about timed refinemen...

Procrastination is all too familiar to most people. People delay writing up their research (so we hear!), repeatedly declare they will start their diets tomorrow, or postpone until next week doing odd jobs around the house. Yet people also sometimes attempt to control their procrastination by setting deadlines for themselves. In this article, we pose three questions: (a) Are people willing to s...

Deadlines are ubiquitous institutions in government decision making, constraining both agencies and courts. Yet these institutions are almost entirely ignored in formal models in institutional political science. We analyze deadlines as exogenously imposed institutions upon a government decision maker, as a means of elected officials exercising control over the the duration of administrative dec...