This thesis is an investigation of talk in a therapeutic setting. It takes discursive psychology as the main influence theoretically, and also draws on the rigorous analytical techniques of conversation analysis (CA). The data was collected in various family therapy settings in the U.K., both residential and non-residential videotapes made during those sessions These recordings were made by therapists for their own use initially, and were not produced especially for this project. Videotapes were transcribed according to standard CA conventions, and subsequently analysed. One of the primary research questions has been to examine empirically mental state language as used in the therapeutic setting. Secondly, it has been to examine accounting practices and the production of versions of events as 'fact'. Thirdly, the aim has been to consider the practical implications of asymmetry as a participants' concern. As a unifying and over-arching analytic interest the use of reported speech in each of these other aspects has been investigated to assess its role in their production. The conclusions of the thesis demonstrate that participants themselves orient to one another's minds as accessible and reportable entities, and that speech is treated as reflective of inner thought. Furthermore, where speech is reported in the therapeutic setting, it is frequently used to validate and to evidence claims about other people's 'psyche'.

Thesis (M.H.A.)--University of Michigan, 1964.

Thesis (M.H.A.)--University of Michigan, 1964.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Psychology, 2006. / Title from second page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-210).

Αποτελεί κοινό τόπο η διαπίστωση ότι οι δημόσιες δαπάνες σε μια δημοκρατική κοινωνία, θα πρέπει να βασίζονται σε ένα αποτελεσματικό σύστημα δημοσιονομικής διαχείρισης και ελέγχου. Τα ανώτατα ελεγκτικά ιδρύματα (Supreme Audit Institutions-SAIs), επιφορτισμένα με τον εξωτερικό έλεγχο που ασκείται στους δημόσιους οργανισμούς κάθε χώρας, συμβάλλουν αποφασιστικά στην ποιότητα και την αποτελεσματικότητα της δημοσιονομικής διαχείρισης. Ειδικά στην Ελλάδα, η σημερινή οικονομική συγκυρία, καθιστά περισσότερο επιτακτική την ανάγκη για λογοδοσία των δημοσίων λειτουργών, διαφάνεια στην διάθεση του δημοσίου χρήματος και αναδιοργάνωση του συστήματος εξωτερικού ελέγχου σύμφωνα με τα πρότυπα και τις καλές πρακτικές που ακολουθούνται σε διεθνές επίπεδο. Παραδόξως όμως, σε ερευνητικό επίπεδο, δεν έχει δοθεί η ανάλογη βαρύτητα στο θέμα των ανώτατων ελεγκτικών ιδρυμάτων και γενικά η έρευνα στον τομέα της κυβερνητικής λογιστικής και του εξωτερικού δημοσιονομικού ελέγχου, παρουσιάζει μια πρόσφατη σχετικά ανάπτυξη. Η παρούσα διδακτορική διατριβή, εστιάζει στο θέμα αυτό και ειδικά στη συμμόρφωση των δημόσιων οργανισμών προς τη δημοσιονομική νομοθεσία στην Ελλάδα, αναζητώντας κάποιους από τους παράγοντες που επιδρούν σε αυτή, προκειμένου να καταλήξει σε προτάσεις για την αναμόρφωση του συστήματος του εξωτερικού ελέγχου. Η έρευνα διενεργήθηκε με την στατιστική επεξεργασία των στοιχείων των Ετησίων Εκθέσεων του Ελεγκτικού Συνεδρίου των ετών 1998-2009, αλλά και με ανάλυση πρωτογενών δεδομένων, τα οποία συγκεντρώθηκαν με τη μέθοδο διανομής ερωτηματολογίων μεταξύ των δύο κύριων κατηγοριών των εμπλεκομένων στην ελεγκτική διαδικασία: των ελεγκτών και των ελεγχομένων φορέων, προκειμένου να αναδειχτούν διαφορετικές πτυχές του ίδιου θέματος. Περαιτέρω, η έρευνα εστιάζει και στον ελεγκτικό θεσμό της χώρας το Ελεγκτικό Συνέδριο, Ανώτατο Δημοσιονομικό Δικαστήριο, εξέτάζοντάς το όμως, όχι από την πλευρά της νομικής επιστήμης, στο χώρο της οποίας είχε κατά κύριο λόγο αποτελέσει αντικείμενο έρευνας μέχρι σήμερα, αλλά υπό την οπτική γωνία μιας διαφορετικής επιστημονικής προσέγγισης: της επιστήμης της διοίκησης των επιχειρήσεων και των οργανισμών, τα εργαλεία της οποίας χρησιμοποιούνται ευρέως τα τελευταία χρόνια για την ανάπτυξη και την «οικοδόμηση» ικανοτήτων των ανώτατων ελεγκτικών ιδρυμάτων σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο. / It is a commonplace that public spending in a democratic society should be based on an effective system of financial management and control. Supreme audit institutions (SAIs), responsible for the external audit conducted in public institutions in each country, contribute to the quality and effectiveness of financial management. In Greece, the current economic crisis makes it more imperative for accountability of public servants, transparency in the disposal of public money and reorganizing the external audit system in accordance with the standards and best practices at the international level. Paradoxically, however, research, has not give due emphasis to the subject of supreme audit institutions and the general research field of governmental accounting and external financial control has a relatively recent development. This thesis focuses on this issue and especially in public institutions' compliance with budgetary laws and regulations in Greece, looking for some of the factors that affect it in order to come up with proposals for reform of the system of external control. The research was conducted with the statistical data of the Annual Reports of the Greek Court of Accounts for the years 1998-2009, as well as an analysis of primary data, which were collected by questionnaire distribution method between two major categories involved in the audit process: auditors and controlled entities, in order to emerge different aspects of the same topic. Further, research focuses on the Greek Court of Accounts, from the perspective a different approach: the science of business administration, the tools of which are widely used in recent years to develop and the "building" capacity of supreme audit institutions worldwide

Subsidies, taxes, premiums, and eligibility for health insurance can potentially cause "marriage lock," in which couples stay married for the sake of health insurance coverage, and marriage lock may change under the Affordable Care Act. In the first two chapters, marriage lock is examined in the context of two key health insurance decisions: divorce decisions upon qualification for Medicare at age 65, and marriage and divorce decisions associated with the introduction of the Massachusetts insurance mandate and health insurance exchange market reforms in 2006. In the first chapter, using the Health and Retirement Study data, I find evidence of a 7 percentage point increase in the number of divorces upon achieving Medicare eligibility at age 65 for people with spousal insurance coverage relative to those without it. In the second chapter, using the American Community Survey data, I find that the 2006 Massachusetts healthcare reform increased incentives for marriage in the health insurance exchange market relative to control states. Specifically, the Massachusetts reform appears to have reduced the divorce rate by 0.5 percentage point and increased marriage rate by 1.4 percentage points. In the third chapter, I use data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) to explore three decisions potentially affected by the implementation of Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs). First, I find that individuals with MSAs incur 17 RMB more medical expenses per 1000 RMB increase in their MSAs balance, while I find no significant effect of after-tax income on medical expenses. Second, I study preference heterogeneity as revealed by three types of risky behaviors. I find undertaking risky investments is associated with 23% more medical expenditures, while always using a seatbelt and obeying traffic signals are associated with 16% and 22% higher medical expenditures, respectively. Finally, I find evidence suggesting that individuals become more risk adverse with MSAs than without, specifically by increasing their use of seatbelts and obeying traffic signals. These findings, using recent Chinese data, suggest that MSAs play an important role when consumers make health expenditure decisions, and that preferences involving risk and prevention also appear to be influenced by the MSA scheme.

The diploma thesis is focused on using methods of multiple criteria decision making, in this case about business accounts. In theoretical part is described the banking systém of Czech republic, then methods of multiple criteria evaluation.The basic aim of this work was to evaluate the order of business accounts in terms of advantageousness, which are offered by banks on the banking market in the Czech republic. The sectional aim of this work is to get known with the problems of optimal choice of business accounts for a certain group of consumers, which in this case are small businesses. Before choosing a new business account it is always necessary to carefully explore banking market and its offers of business accounts. The important part of this thesis is that the certain client has to consider his preferences before we use quantitative methods. In this diploma thesis has also done a survey about the evaluation of business accounts. Then there are compared results of using methods of multiple criteria evaluation of the survey and model client. In conclusion, the results are described in the order of banking products from the best to the worst business account.

The title of this thesis is Accounting, tax and law aspects of claims and their solution in a chosen accounting entity. In this thesis were performed vertical and horizontal analysis of claims. The information, that I received, helped me to discover problem areas of claims. Problem areas are trade receivables. For this reason have been proposed criteria, which are important for determining the solvency of the customer.

The target of this diploma thesis is the application of the external audit on the financial statement of the concrete accounting unit according to applicable audit regulations. In the first theoretical part I deal with the definition of audit, its functions, further legislation of audit in the Czech Republic and the auditing process. Literature has been the source of information for me. In the second practical part I focus on selected company. For my thesis I have chosen DUDÁK ? Měšťanský pivovar Strakonice, a.s. Next I focused on own implementation of auditing in the organization. I carried out the audit of financial statements for year 2011. The result of my work is to refer to facts that I evaluate as positive.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A ciência contábil sofreu diversas mudanças ao longo dos anos, principalmente no último século, em virtude da globalização. Embora o crescimento seja importante para o conhecimento, ele traz benefícios tecnológicos e prejuízos, principalmente financeiros, ocasionados pelo estresse aos indivíduos. A presente pesquisa teve como escopo determinar em que medida o estresse afeta os contabilistas registrados no cadastro do Conselho Regional de Contabilidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, além de averiguar o grau e os sintomas de estresse, seus aspectos individuais e profissionais e as diferenças de estresse entre os gêneros. Na revisão de literatura procurou-se discutir os principais conceitos ligados ao estresse, o estresse no ambiente de trabalho, suas fases, como é medido e a influência deste na vida do indivíduo. Foi utilizado o modelo de estresse desenvolvido por Lipp (2003), denominado Inventário de Sintomas de Estresse de Lipp, e foram determinadas quatro hipóteses de pesquisa. Os dados foram coletados através de questionário adaptado de Sillas (2011), no período de 15 de julho de 2011 a 5 de setembro de 2011, com amostra de 202 homens e 241 mulheres, faixa etária média de 33,4 anos. Procurando replicar ao ponto principal da investigação, efetuou-se a análise descritiva e estatística, com a utilização dos softwares, Microsoft Excel e Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). Para realizar o cruzamento entre as diversas variáveis, utilizou-se a Análise de Correspondência. Dos dados encontrados: 50% dos contabilistas não apresentam sintomas que configurem a uma fase de estresse (46% homens e 54% mulheres); 35% encontram-se na segunda fase de estresse (49% homens e 51% mulheres); 13% encontram-se em exaustão (68% mulheres e 32% homens). Ficou claro que em grande parte os contabilistas fluminenses não são profissionais estressados. A fase de estresse com diferença significativa é a de exaustão, na qual as mulheres superam os homens consideravelmente. Em suma, o estresse dos contabilistas é similar e em muitos aspectos aspectos aproxima-se do que foi apresentado na revisão de literatura. Os sintomas que foram predominantes na maioria das fases de estresse foram os físicos, com exceção da fase de exaustão, na qual há predomínio de sintomas psicológicos.