Mandatory vs. Voluntary Continuing Education

The journey to mandatory continuing education in Illinois.

No to mandatory continuing medical education, yes to mandatory practice auditing and professional educational development.

The issue of mandatory continuing medical education (CME) is controversial. Traditional measures mandate only attendance, not learning, and have no measurable performance end points. There is no evidence that current approaches to CME, mandatory or voluntary, produce sustainable changes in physician practices or application of current knowledge. Ongoing educational development is an important v...

Voluntary Audits versus Mandatory Audits

Exploiting a natural experiment in which voluntary audits replace mandatory audits for U.K. private companies, we analyze whether imposing audits suppresses valuable information about the types of companies that would voluntarily choose to be audited. We control for the assurance benefits of auditing to isolate the role signaling plays by focusing on companies that are audited under both regime...

Comparing Voluntary and Mandatory Gameplay

Play is commonly considered to be a voluntary activity. Game designers generally believe that gameplay is essentially different when play is obligatory. Such a belief may be a challenge for serious games, as instruction is usually mandatory. This article describes the outcomes of two experiments on the impact of voluntariness on the learning effect of a serious game. In the first experiment fre...

Voluntary vs

Companies making initial public offerings in Greece were obliged to include next year‟s profit in the new issue prospectuses until the regulations changed to voluntary status. This study takes advantage of these two regulatory regimes and compares the accuracy of earnings forecasts under both mandatory and voluntary disclosure environments. Findings indicate behavioural change, as pessimistic e...