Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of New South Wales, 2001. / Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 147-158).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, August 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / This study assesses the policies for managing recovered proceeds of crime in three countries, namely, Tanzania, South Africa and Nigeria. It considers the role and relevance of asset management in the asset recovery regimes of the three countries. Managing the proceeds of crime divides into two stages: the pre-confiscation stage and the post-confiscation stage. International best practices (IBPs) in asset management have been employed as a yardstick for the assessment. On the face of it, asset management is complementary to asset recovery policy. The management of preserved and recovered assets maintains their value and enables states to apply the assets to other policy objectives after the finalisation of the recovery process. From this perspective, proper asset management arguably lies at the heart of asset recovery policy. Asset recovery as a policy is concerned with the pursuit of two objectives, namely, combating crime and correcting the harm caused by crime. These objectives are encapsulated in two prominent principles: the principle that crime should not pay and the principle of corrective justice. Thus, asset management policy, as an element of asset recovery policy, needs to express these two principles and address their corresponding policy objectives. A number of challenges face the asset management institutions (AMIs) in the three designated states. They fall into two categories: policy challenges and legal challenges. The main policy challenge pertains to unbalanced or skewed policy objectives. Tanzania and Nigeria, in particular, give too much consideration to combating crime and too little to correcting the harm caused by crime to the community. These policy objectives need to be balanced by the states taking seriously the principle of corrective justice as fundamental to asset management policy. In this connection, compensation to victims, funding of institutions dealing with the victims of crime, funding of public good projects and funding of law enforcement agencies are available as ways of addressing the harm caused by the offence and showing commitment to ensuring that nobody suffers loss as a result of crime. Despite the existence and implementation of a proper asset management regime, certain factors affect the value of the preserved and recovered assets negatively. They include enforcement of certain rights in favour of the defendant, such as payment of legal, living and business expenses from the preserved assets, and certain asset recovery procedures, such as plea bargaining, non-conviction based asset recovery and administrative asset recovery. Proper legal controls are required in order to reduce the impact of such factors upon the value of preserved and recovered assets. The study concludes with a focus on the asset management regime of Tanzania. Various recommendations are offered towards the attainment of a Tanzanian regime structured in terms of balanced policy objectives. The recommendations cover three aspects: the general coverage of the law, the functioning of AMIs and the legal control of the factors that were identified as affecting the value of assets during the recovery process.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1981.

Magister Legum - LLM

The thesis deals with an analysis of property in the selected village. The thesis is divided into two parts -- the theoretical-methodological and the practical part. In the theoretical part, there are described particular terms concerning the budget management of municipalities, accounting reform and community property. In another, theoretical-methodological part, there is introduced an approach to the accounting of municipality property in connection with the reform of the state accounting. In the practical part, there is analyzed budget management of town, the property structure at the selected village, chosen procedure of depreciation and there is mentioned the relationship between depreciation and funding of new assets. In the thesis, there are described concrete examples of depreciation. Finally, there is evaluated the whole process and there are mentioned recommendations and objections.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:32:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sergio de Jesus.pdf: 1304758 bytes, checksum: d93f4a2c0b7a9f80ad1636906381440d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-14 / Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa / The process of credit risk management of banks is an extremely important activity for the correct identification of the risks inherent in banking to lend funds to third parties. Thus, bank s managers should be alert to best market practices and efficient processes for the timely and accurate identification of credit risks in its loan portfolio and act appropriately to minimize their potential losses. Worldwide, the process of credit risk management has changed to improve the measurement of risks by banks through the new agreement of Capitals - Basel II. Through this new agreement the banks can build and use their own models of credit risk management, with the inclusion of financial and nonfinancial information. Currently, studies demonstrate the importance of intangible assets of enterprises, including those related to intellectual capital, for its ability to generate value and future cash flows for companies. However, due to the difficult identification and measurement of these assets, the current processes for credit risk management still do not include these assets (Intellectual Capital) into their risk analysis. Thus, this study investigates the structure of current models of credit risk management of Brazilian banks, from the Basel II s perspective, to see the possibility to contemplate the intangible assets related to intellectual capital in these models. It was also a scope of the research, a proposal for improving the process of Banco Titânio (unreal name), through the identification, measurement and inclusion of such assets in the process of credit risk management of the bank. The research is exploratory and descriptive and it was conducted in two phases: Initially, the data collection was conducted through an electronic research sent to eight Brazilian banks, and the data were processed by descriptive analysis and content analysis. In the second phase, the research was conducted like a case analysis with the Banco Titânio, and the data were processed through the verification in loco of the current processes of the bank. The results showed that intangible assets related to Intellectual Capital are viewed by managers of banks as important informations to the process of managing credit risk, but because there is no systematic way for its inclusion in the models, these assets still are not included in the processes of credit risk management of Banks that formed the sample; therefore, we proposed a systematic way to improve the management models of banks' credit risk with the inclusion of these assets. / O processo de gerenciamento de risco de crédito dos bancos é uma atividade de extrema importância para a correta identificação dos riscos inerentes à atividade bancária de emprestar recursos financeiros a terceiros. Dessa forma, os gestores dos bancos precisam estar atentos às melhores práticas de mercado e ter em mãos processos eficientes para a tempestiva e correta identificação dos riscos de crédito de sua carteira de empréstimos e agir de maneira adequada para minimizar suas possíveis perdas. Mundialmente, o processo de gerenciamento de risco de crédito passa por significativas mudanças de forma a melhorar a mensuração de riscos por parte dos bancos, devido ao novo acordo de capitais da Basileia II. Segundo este novo acordo, os bancos podem construir e utilizar modelos próprios de gerenciamento de riscos de crédito com a inclusão de informações financeiras e não financeiras. Atualmente, estudos demonstram a importância dos ativos intangíveis das empresas, inclusive os relacionados ao Capital Intelectual, por sua capacidade de geração de valor e de fluxos de caixas futuros para as empresas. Porém, em função da difícil identificação e mensuração desses ativos, os processos atuais de gerenciamento de risco de crédito não incluem esses ativos em suas análises. Sendo assim, esse estudo buscou conhecer a estrutura atual dos modelos de gerenciamento de risco de crédito de bancos brasileiros, pela ótica do novo acordo de capitais da Basileia II, de forma a se verificar a possibilidade de se contemplar os ativos intangíveis relacionados ao Capital Intelectual nesses modelos. Também foi escopo do trabalho sugerir uma proposta de aperfeiçoamento do processo do Banco Titânio (nome fictício), com a identificação, mensuração e inclusão desses ativos no processo de gerenciamento de risco de crédito do banco. A pesquisa é descritiva e exploratória e foi conduzida em duas fases: Na primeira fase, a coleta de dados foi efetuada por meio de questionário eletrônico enviado para oito bancos brasileiros, sendo que os dados foram tratados por análises descritivas e análises de conteúdo. Na segunda fase da pesquisa, foi efetuada uma análise de caso com o Banco Titânio, sendo que os dados foram tratados por meio da verificação in loco dos processos atuais do banco. Os resultados demonstraram que os ativos intangíveis relacionados ao Capital Intelectual são vistos pelos gestores dos bancos como informações importantes para o processo de gerenciamento de risco de crédito, porém por não existir uma forma sistematizada para sua inclusão nos modelos, esses ativos ainda não são contemplados nos processos de gerenciamento de risco de crédito dos bancos que compuseram a amostra; sendo assim, foi proposta uma sistemática para o aperfeiçoamento dos modelos de gerenciamento de risco de crédito dos bancos com a inclusão desses ativos.