American Journal of Business: Volume 6 Issue 1

Implementation of Marketing: A Study of Various‐Sized Banks

Erdogan Kumcu, Enar Tunc

The implementation of marketing among bank executives has been late and slow. In recent years, deregulation, and resultantly, a more competitive environment have motivated the…

The Role of the Electronic Spreadsheet in Small Firm Planning

Phyllis G. Holland, Arthur R. DeThomas, Howard N. Ray

Microcomputer technology and spreadsheet software are widely available to small businesses and offer the small firm owner a means of planning more effectively and efficiently. A…

Passing on the Family Business Under the Restrictive Estate Freeze Rules

Helga B. Foss

The Revenue Act of 1987 and the Technical and Miscellaneous Revenue Act of 1988 have effectively eliminated the preferred stock recapitalization and other estate freeze…

Achieving Performance Excellence: Training the Trainer

Jerry M. Kopf, Jerry G. Kreuze

During the last decade many organizations have reduced the number of middle level managers and shifted the emphasis in managerial work from the traditional functions of motivating…

Measuring White‐Collar Productivity

Nazim U. Ahmed, Cynthia S. Ma, Ray V. Montagno

Currently over seventy percent of the work force is employed in white‐collar jobs. The implication ofwhite‐collar productivity for organizational growth and competitiveness is…

Managing Retention in Big Eight Public Accounting: Why Employees Stay

Matthew H. Sauber, Andrew G. Snyir, Mohsen Sharifi

Previous studies analyze turnover in public accounting by focusing on why employees leave. None has discussed the critical question of why employees stay. The present article…

A Control Model for Assessing Quality Costs

Heidi Hylton Meier

Measuring quality costs is becoming an increasingly more important task for accountants. This is especially true in light of new definitions and goals of quality programs, which…

The States’ Regulatory Climate: Distortion in Public Utility Underwriting Costs

Raymond F. Gorman, Gautam Vora

This study examines the distortive effects of the states’ regulatory climate on the underwriting costs of new equity issues of public utilities. Each state has its own public…

Agricultural Options As A Management Tool

Philip Gregorowicz, H. Dean Moberly

Agricultural markets for commodities have tended to be unstable with high variability in prices received by producers from year‐to‐year. These conditions have always made…

Bringing Business Experience to the Nonprofit Sector: What Works and What Doesn’t

Roger L. Moore, Albert A. Vicere

Five distinguishing characteristics of non profit organizations are identified and explored. They are: a different and more complex environment, more altruistic purposes with…