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Financial performance: the motivation behind corporate social responsibility reporting
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting has become an increasing trend in the corporate world. It is a relatively new concept but has become a major research topic in the accounting profession. The motivations ...
Forming Faith: A comparative study of two methods of confirmation preparation and the ways they facilitate faith formation in candidates
This research project compares two different methods of confirmation preparation and the way they facilitated faith formation in candidates. The two methods investigated were the 'traditional' and the 'catechumenal like' ...
Comparing predictor methods; the case of bankruptcy predictions
The aim of this study was to compare three methods of bankruptcy prediction, which were Multivariate Discriminant Analysis, Logit Analysis and Artificial Neural Networks. The
methods were compared based on their ability ...
International standards in the IT marketplace: How to bridge the gap and face the threats
Standards development and adoption play a crucial role in shaping competition in the IT industry. In addition to the traditional, formal standards development organisations (SDOs), many private consortia bodies are formed ...
Living gallery: Investigating dynamic display of artwork through proximity detection
Galleries displaying artwork and artefacts are already taking advantage of technology to give added value to the viewing public. However are such systems suitable or desirable for use in art displays? The purpose of this ...
Relevance and reliability: A trade-off?
According to the Statement of Concepts, two qualitative characteristics that financial accounting information should possess are relevance and reliability. There is a long-held belief that there is a trade-off relationship ...
IC3:Information and Communication integration using VCoIP between 3 collaborating parties
This study develops a new communication and collaboration supported tool – IC3. In particular, this tool is an integration of open source video conference over internet protocol (VCoIP) and virtual network computing (VNC) ...
Effects of Closing a Small Rural Church
Introduction : This project is based on the hypothesis that the closure of a small rural church is a traumatic event in the life of the church and the surrounding community, evoking feelings of loss and grief, which if ...
The Chemistry and Photochemistry of the Insecticide Carbaryl in Aquatic Environments
Large quantities of pesticides have been used for many years in New Zealand to control agricultural and horticultural pests. The fate of a pesticide after application as a powder or solution to the target organism depends ...
Maori prisoners in Dunedin, 1869-1872 and 1879-1881 : exiled for a cause
The exile of Maori prisoners to Dunedin in 1869 and again in 1879, was due to the Northern wars and the confiscation of land in Taranaki by the Government. Maori never accepted the 'justice' imposed on them and active ...