What keeps corporate tax department executives up at night? How about the risk of signing off on an incorrect tax return? Or worse yet, what about a career-threatening, tax-related restatement? As corporate tax complexity increases, so does the risk of mistakes, penalties, and missed opportunities. For instance, 14 percent of U.S. firms reported material weakness or significant deficiency f…
Some 20 years ago, after years of teaching corporate finance and writing related textbooks and casebooks, I began teaching healthcare financial management in the University of Florida’s joint MBA/MHA program. The move prompted me to write my first healthcare finance textbook, Understanding Health Care Financial Management. The book was designed for use in health services administration f…
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Forensic accounting can be defined as the science of gathering and presenting financial information in a form that will be accepted by a court of jurisprudence against perpetrators of economic crimes. Economic crimes have increased dramatically in recent years. This becomes evident in viewing newspaper reports, which on an almost daily basis report of economic crimes committed in communiti…
While knowledge management (KM) is becoming an established discipline with many applications and techniques, its adoption in health care has been challenging. Though, the health care sector relies heavily on knowledge and evidence based medicine is expected to be implemented in daily health care activities; besides, delivery of care replies on cooperation of several partners that need to exchan…