In recent years, information technology (IT) has played a critical role in the services provided by the public accounting industry. However, no empirical research has evaluated the impact of IT on public accounting firms. This study focuses on five offices of an international public accounting firm that recently made large IT investments, primarily in audit software and knowledge-sharing applic...

We analyze how environmental taxes should be optimally levied in a sequential game which regulators and firms face costs uncertainties. First, the regulator chooses intensity of emissions to reduce externalities. Then, facing common private information with noisy signals, compete marketplace choose outputs. show that, under nonuniform quality signals across firms, may calibrate differentiated t...

introduction: voluntary counseling and testing (vct) for hiv infection is a confidential service offered to individuals in the community. this study intended to present a pattern for regional surveillance of vct services in iran. methods: this was an applied descriptive study. at first, the existing regional vct surveillance in 2009 was investigated through visiting the clinical deputy of medic...

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of information technology (IT) on the productivity and efficiency of manufacturing industries in Iran. So, the data will be collected from 23 Iranian manufacturing industries during “2002–2006” and the methods such as DEA and panel data used to study the subject. Results obtained by the above two methods represent that IT has a positive and statisti...

A Personal and Group Productivity Tool for Managing Information Mark C. Torrance MIT Arti cial Intelligence Laboratory 545 Technology Square #705 Cambridge, MA 02171 and Sun Microsystems Laboratories Abstract This paper describes Active Notebook, a collection of software tools which work together to allow individuals to label document-based information with conceptual classi cations, and organi...

background: adopting information technology (it) systems in an organization is a decision which faces several challenges. this study has been conducted with the aim of analyzing barriers and challenges in application of ict in medical science universities in general and the ilam medical science university in particular. methods: the studied population was the employees of ilam university of med...