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Showing result 6 - 10 of 739 swedish dissertations containing the word accounting.

  2. 6. Accounting investigations

    Author : Pontus Hedlin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Redovisning;

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  4. 7. Essays of Financial Performance and Capital Structure

    Author : Lars Lindbergh; Lars G. Hassel; Michael B. Adams; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business studies; financial accounting; financial statements; financial performance; capital structure; tax allowances; comparative studies; Företagsekonomi; Business studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of an introductory chapter and four self-contained essays on financial performance and capital structure. Essay I assesses the strength of strategic inputs into profitability among firms within several sub-sectors within the industrial service sector in the U.S. and Sweden. READ MORE

  5. 8. Group Accounting Across Borders

    Author : Arne Fagerström; Lars Hassel; Gary M Cunningham; Åbo Akademi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; International accounting; consolidated reports; accounting regulation; income smoothing;

    Abstract : Over the last twenty years, accounting diversity between countries has been an important issue in international accounting research. A driving force has been the growth of multinational companies across borders. The development has created new challenges in consolidating financial statements across borders to a common group accounting report. READ MORE

  6. 9. From Cost Accounting to Customer Accounting in the HospitalityIndustry : a Constructive Approach

    Author : Mats Carlbäck; Sweden Göteborg Handelshögskolan Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Restaurant Industry; Management Accounting Tools; Management Control; Experience Accounting; FAMM; Cost Allocation; Performance Measurement; Constructive Approach;

    Abstract :  The objective of this research project is to analyse and identify the role of tools used in the restaurant industry to improve resource management efficiency and performance, to develop and test the Experience Accounting tool, and to test and evaluate if this particular system is the system that could fill a gap in the hospitality industry.The research is based on the notion that the hospitality business is part of the experience industry and is producing experiences rather than a plate of food and a bed to sleep in. READ MORE

  7. 10. Institutional Logics and Accounting Professionals : The case of K2 and K3

    Author : Karin Seger; Hans Englund; Magnus Frostenson; Roland Almqvist; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Institutional logics; multiple logics; co-existing logics; accounting professionals; accounting firms; small companies; small limited companies; the K-project; K2; K3;

    Abstract : Accounting firms have long been considered a ‘black box’ in the literature, but over the last two decades or so, a growing body of literature has emerged which points to how the accounting profession may be seen as a profession in transformation, one in which the underlying logic of their work has gone from emphasizing professional values to one in which commercial values constitute the main rules of the game.This thesis draws upon and add to this literature as it directs attention to how co-existing and potentially conflicting institutional logics enable and constrain accounting professionals, in practice and over time. READ MORE