Grammatical Evolution (GE) is a novel data-driven, model-induction tool, inspired by the biological gene-to-protein mapping process. This study provides an introduction to GE, and demonstrates the methodology by applying it to construct a series of models for the prediction of bankruptcy, employing information drawn from financial statements. Unlike prior studies in this domain, the raw financi...

An organization's financial statements reflect their well-being and determine ability to meet the health care needs of citizens in community. It is imperative that nursing leadership recognize key components an annual consolidated statements, balance sheet income statement, know how interpret them provide efficient, high-quality be successful role as nurse leaders. This article provides exempla...

This study explores the roles that three kinds of nonfinancial variables—people, patents and policies—play in generating firms’ near-term annual sales revenue. Due to data limitations on these variables for public companies, I use a rich and detailed set of information taken from surveys of private venture-backed firms conducted by VentureOne. By means of a CobbDouglas-type revenue model, I fin...

Fraud detection is becoming increasingly important to managers of organizations, to internal and external auditors, and to regulators (Apostolou and Crumbley, 2005). Recent large frauds in many countries of the world and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the United States stress the importance of early detection of fraud. Financial statement frauds have weakened investor confidence in corporate financi...

This paper reveals and tests a new theoretical implication of the credit channel of monetary policy: as financial frictions (monitoring or auditing costs) increase, the reaction of stock prices to monetary policy shocks decreases. Correspondingly, towards the end of the Enron accounting scandal, the stock prices of firms sharing the same auditor as Enron responded by about 50 to 60 basis points...

In-group bias, a product of Social Identity Theory, may impair auditor independence by influencing auditor judgments in an analytical review task. Auditors rely on client representations to support their opinion of the financial statements; however, clients are sometimes former auditors of the external audit firm. This prior relationship could lead the auditor to exhibit unwarranted trust of cl...

A key criterion for applying hedge accounting under SFAS 133 is the demonstration of hedge effectiveness. Retrospective assessment of hedge effectiveness may reveal hedge ineffectiveness – the extent to which a gain (loss) on the hedging derivative is not offset by a corresponding loss (gain) on the hedged item. SFAS 133 requires that this accounting measure of hedge ineffectiveness be reported...

I plan to contribute the following to the Euroconference: 1. Present a framework of the factors that influence financial reporting practice and the quality of the financial reports in continental European countries. 2. Discuss potential differences in the proposed "financial reporting" framework between Anglo-Saxon and Continental European countries. This will be partly based on the Vander Bauw...

Following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, interbank borrowing and lending dropped, whereas reserve holdings of depository institutions skyrocketed, as the Fed injected liquidity into the U.S. banking sector. This paper introduces bank liquidity risk and limited market participation into a real business cycle model with ex ante identical financial intermediaries and shows, in an analytically ...

In this paper we address the question of the size distribution of firms. To this aim, we use the Bloomberg database comprising multinational firms within the years 1995-2003, and analyze the data of the sales and the total assets of the separate financial statement of the Japanese and the US companies, and make a comparison of the size distributions between the Japanese companies and the US com...