BACKGROUND Research has so far benefited from the use of pedometers in physical activity interventions. However, when public health institutions (eg, insurance companies) implement pedometer-based interventions in practice, people may refrain from participating due to privacy concerns. This might greatly limit the applicability of such interventions. Financial incentives have been successfully ...

This paper addresses the context issue in interpreting Internet based non-financial information that may indicate the financial health of a company. Context is defined as the collection of implicit assumptions about the context definition (i.e., meaning) and context characteristics (i.e., quality) of the information. This research examines corporate web sites for explicit and implicit non-finan...

In conventional DEA, measures are classified as either input or output. However, in some real cases there are variables whose status is not known as input or output before assessment. These variable are known as flexible measures. One of the most important economic dimensions for ensuring the success of a company is the efficiency with which it uses its resources. Therefore, centering on Asses...

Reading manually annual and quarterly reports helps financial analysts and decision makers to judge companies’ financial performance. Professionals infer from a report not only the current financial performance and strategic outlook of a company but also its prospective financial performance. They have insightful methods to find some intuitive indications of the future financial performance of ...

This study aims to determine and obtain empirical evidence about the influence of capital structure ownership that is proxied by managerial institutional on company's financial performance with firm size as a control variable companies listed Indonesia Stock Exchange included in SRI-KEHATI Index period 2013-2018. In this researchers used quantitative research types. And method associative metho...

the corporate income tax rate plays a worthwhile role in developing fiscal and tax policies for companies, lawmakers and analysts. so, one of the most important issues in tax field, is to determine effective tax rates. the study and scientific calculations of the effective tax rates provide an enhanced tax justice and a careful study of tax pressure on taxpayers would be possible. the objective...

BACKGROUND There is evidence that financial incentive interventions, which include both financial rewards and also penalties, are effective in encouraging healthy behaviours. However, concerns about the acceptability of such interventions remain. We report on focus groups with a cross-section of adults from North East England exploring their acceptance of financial incentive interventions for e...