12,100 research outputs found
Exploring Financial Management Practices and Firm’s Competitiveness: Evidence from Ghana Club 100 Firms.
No full textGhana Club 100 was established by the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) to acknowledge the top 100 performing firms in Ghana and to enhance firm competitiveness and economic growth. The paper aims to explore how financial management practices influence the competitiveness of firms listed on Ghana Club 100. This study adopted a sequential mixed research design comprising of a questionnaire from 80 firms and an interview guide to gather data from 10 selected companies. Data from the questionnaire was analyzed using SPSS descriptive statistics and NVivo software was used to thematically analyze the interview transcripts. The findings identified five financial management practices relating to accounting information system, capital structure, capital budgeting, working capital and financial reporting, which are deemed critical to firm performance and competitiveness in terms of financial health, growth and operational efficiency in Ghana. Although the generalizability of the study is limited to the small sample size, the findings can be applied to improve the firm performance of companies in Ghana. Future research aims to critically evaluate the effectiveness of the five financial management practices
Jane Arnold interviews essayist Arthur Versluis
No full textEssayist Arthur Versluis, professor of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University, talks about his book "Island Farm", teaching writing in the classroom, the balance between his academic and farming lives, his views on organic farming, and his works in progress. Versluis is interviewed by MSU Librarian Jane Arnold for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
The light of the eye : doctrine, piety and reform in the works of Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen
No full textBibliography: leaves 376-401.This thesis investigates the ways in which three eighteenth-century writers, Bishop Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen embody orthodox Anglican doctrine according to their individual perceptions of the enlightening properties of Protestant Christianity. After situating them in their respective gender, literary and ecclesiastical contexts, I examine some of their key doctrines and analyse excerpts from their works. My selection of passages from Sherlock's works is fairly comprehensive, but in the case of More and Austen, where there is already a formidable body of literary criticism, it is more selective. Thus, I focus on doctrine in More's tracts, Strictures on the System of Female Education, An Essay on St Paul and most especially Coelebs in Search of a Wife and in the case of Austen, on her prayers and select passages from Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park. I conclude that, although diverse in their particular kind of Anglicanism (High, Evangelical and Median) and in their choice of genre, transparency or obscurity (anonymity and pseudonymity) and the various narratological strategies some of them invoke to circumvent certain taboos, Sherlock, More and Austen champion the same central orthodox doctrines, defend them against current alternatives to orthodoxy such as Latitudinarianism, Deism and various forms of Freethinking, and promote similar moral and ecclesiastical reforms. However, indirectly (through female characters who resist male representation or control) the women writers subject their ostensibly authorially-endorsed male narrators/characters to scrutiny and sometimes (when the males objectify the women) subversion
Author Jane Knuth At Creighton University
No full textCreighton University Collaborative Ministry invited author Jane Knuth to talk about her book "Thrift Store Saints: Meeting Jesus 25 Cents at a Time". Her book and talk were full of stories about her experiences working at a Saint Vincent DePaul thrift store in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Jane was delightful and everybody really enjoyed her visit
Fr. Arthur, Sr. Judith, Br. James, Sr. Jane, Fr. Vincent
No full textFr. Arthur Rivard, SSE, Sr. Judith Kaiser, IHM, Bro. James Sullivan, SSE, Sr. Jane Kelly, CSJ, and Fr. Vincent Coyne, SS
Jane Howe Gregory's notes with addresses
No full textThis is a collection of Jane Howe Gregory's notes with addresses of people pertaining to research that she conducted
Jane Arnold interviews short story author Sylvia Watanabe
No full textShort story author Sylvia Watanabe talks about why she moved from Hawaii to Michigan, her book "Talking To The Dead", and her novel in process. Watanabe is interviewed by librarian Jane Arnold for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Hamilton, Catherine Jane [pseud. Retlaw Spring] (1841–1935), author and journalist
No full textHamilton, Catherine Jane [pseud. Retlaw Spring] (1841-1935), author and journalist, was born on 25 January 1841 at Kilmersdon, Somerset, where she was baptized on 12 April 1841, the younger of two daughters of Richard Hamilton (1805?-1859), vicar of Kilmersdon, and his wife Charlotte, née Cooper (1809-1882), the fifth daughter of William Cooper, of Queens County, Ireland. She was of Irish heritage on both sides. Her father belonged to a military family with roots in Strabane (county Tyrone) - his father, John Hamilton, and her father’s four older brothers were all officers in the Fifth Foot – and was a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. He had been a bright scholar with an aptitude for languages, and as a preacher was praised for his powerful sermons and his ability to bring the Bible to life for his parishioners
Sam and his wife Francesca prepare to put the Gigi in the oven, Sydney, 2006 [picture] /
No full textTitle from reproduction in Qui e lì = Here and there : a photo essay on the life and hometowns of Italian Australians. Sydney : Red Egg Publishing, 2006, p. [97].; Inscriptions: "Sam and his wife Francesca prepare to put the Gigi in the oven. JB Taylor 07"--In pencil on back of photograph.; Part of the collection: Qui e lì photograph collection, Australia, 2005-2006.; Also available in electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3993244-s5
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