These independent variables included gender, international status, age, final exam score, instructor, earned hours at the beginning of the term, and GPA at the beginning of the term.
The complete logistic regression equation is as follows:
where Type = a dummy variable: (0-1) to account for the question response format; Gender = a dummy variable: 0 = female, 1= male; Intl = a dummy variable: 0 = not international, 1= international; Instructor = dummy variables (0-1) to account for the different faculty teaching the classes. The independent variables Age, Final for grade on the final exam, Earn_Hrs_Beg_Term for the number of semester earned hours at the beginning of the semester of the study, and GPA_Beg_Term for the student’s GPA at the beginning of the semester of the study are continuous variables.
The second research question addresses how effectively quantitative accounting questions in the MC format anticipate how students think when they reason incorrectly. The desired outcome is that distracters for wrong answer choices represent the incorrect responses that students would report most frequently if they had simply been required to write in their calculated answers.
Rebello and Zollman (2004) compared students’ responses on MC questions in physics classes with responses to equivalent open-ended questions. They found that a significant percentage of the open-ended responses fell into categories that were not included in the MC options. The current
If some research is undertaken that provides evidence that capital markets do not always behave in accordance with the Efficient Market Hypothesis, does this invalidate research that adopts an assumption that capital markets are efficient?
13 The classification of student major (accounting, economics, management, marketing, other) is an example of:
The company dose not use a third party designee and the tax returns are signed by the president, Carlos Cruz.
The student data file was used as the data source. The sample size included one hundred men and one hundred women. Thirty-five out of one hundred men had not declared for a degree. Fifteen out of one hundred women had not declared for a degree. The level of
Students will be challenged and asked questions that push them to refer back to what they’ve read. This stresses critical-thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills that are required for success in college, career, and life (p.1)
Kostos and Shin present the research problem by explaining (in great detail) the implications and consequences of students having these issues. The researchers explain the difficulty in having students focus on finding the right answer, and then shifting that focus to finding a meaningful process instead. Students are required to “communicate
According to the fact of this case, Parent Co. (Parent) wholly owns Poor Son Co. (Poor Son) as a legal subsidiary, and both of them all nonpublic companies. However, in January 2007 Poor Son filed a voluntary bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy code because of its inability of meet obligations as they became due. Then, Parent claimed the loss of control of Poor Son and deconsolidated Poor Son from its financial statement. Through the bidding process in May 2009, Poor Son and OtherCo, the winning sponsor, filed a joint plan of reorganization to the bankruptcy court, but the plan was rescinded by OtherCo later due to significant market value shrink of Poor Son. After that, the
Q1. Contrast financial and managerial accounting on the basis of user orientation, purpose of information, level of aggregation, length of time period, orientation toward past or future, conformance to external standards, and emphasis on objective data.
Assess the degree to which the firm’s accounting reflects the underlying business reality. Identify accounting distortions and evaluate their impact on profits and the sustainability of profits.
The independent variable in this situation is the color of the paper given. The experimental group of 12 year old students is the group being administered the yellow colored paper. The results from this is going to be compared to the control group of 12 year olds who are going to be taking the same math test
1. Tutti’s Sandwich Shop has the following information regarding costs at various levels of monthly sales. Help Tutti separate her costs into fixed costs and variable costs so that she can predict and evaluate costs at varying levels of guests served.
The accounting system we use today started in Venice in renaissance period over 520 years ago. The trade business increased hugely during this time and all the financial recordings had to be written down to help people see how their business is doing. During that time in 1494 the first book about was published in accounting by Luca Paciolli and was called “The Collected Knowledge of Arithmetic, Geometry, Proportion and Proportionality”. He was called “The father of Accounting” and most of his described principles have been used up until this day.
To over view the knowledge we learnt from accounting theory and practice, the main thing I can conclude that is the tendency of accounting will shift away from technical way to people’s behaviour way. By understanding what should do, we should ask why and how we could improve and change it into a better way. This essay aims to explain how the theoretical material that we learn in lectures can be developed under a real practical manner.
Feedback: Management accounting is the preparation and use of accounting information systems to achieve the organization's objectives by supporting decision makers inside the enterprise. LO 4
On 1 July 2011, Kookaburra Ltd acquired an item of plant at a cost of $200 000. The plant has an