The first book to focus on the film work of Bob Hope, this engaging assessment and history explores the comic persona this legendary star created. Drawing on archival materials, interviews with ...collaborators, and the films themselves, noted film comedy authority Donald W. McCaffrey establishes the reasons Hope is considered one of the greatest film comedians of his era.
Purpose
From a historical perspective, the purpose of this paper is to show how the current New Zealand Accountants' Code of Ethics (COE) differs from the first 1927 COE. The lengthy, current COE ...comprises strands of thought drawn from three different philosophical positions. By contrast, New Zealand's first COE was relatively short and reflected legitimacy by character employing the concepts of virtue ethics. The concepts of virtue ethics have now largely disappeared from the latest much longer code. The current code is more legalistic and technical, implying a concern for public relations. At the same time, the current COE has become a legitimising tool for the profession to emphasise image and quality.
Design/methodology/approach
To illustrate the shift in practice of ethical position, the paper is informed by a recent New Zealand case of a collapsed finance company as well as some further illustrations of a failure to discharge a duty of care to the public from the United Kingdom.
Findings
The shift in the COE coupled with a shift in underlying social values contributes to what the
Economist Journal
describes as a steady decline in professional ethics. There has been a shift from legitimising the character of an accountant to legitimising the character of accounting. This arguable conclusion is supported by a case study in New Zealand and cites the shift in combinations of cognitive, moral and pragmatic legitimacy as drivers employed by accounting firms.
Research limitations/implications
The paper uses secondary and documentary data and is informed by conceptual analysis which necessarily in the realm of ethics may be contentious.
Originality/value
The paper seeks to link the changing social values with changes in legitimisation and the COE to show shifts in accounting practices like the recent practice of issuing disclaimers.
Marthe Louise Vogt Wright, Pearce
The Lancet (British edition),
11/2003, Letnik:
362, Številka:
9397
Journal Article
Recenzirano
On reading Mein Kampf, Vogt was appalled at the thought that the author of such a polemic could ever lead Germany, and when Hitler became Chancellor in 1933 she knew she must leave. Her escape route ...came in 1935 through a Rockefeller travelling fellowship that let her work at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, UK, under Henry Dale, one of the world's leading pharmacologists. She took part in the research that led to publication, in 1936, by Dale's team of a landmark paper containing the first description of the release of acetylcholine from nerves emanating from the spinal cord to the muscles into which they projected. That work helped win Henry Dale the 1936 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Vogt then transferred to Cambridge University and worked under another great physiologist, E B Verney. When her Rockefeller fellowship came to an end in 1937, she had no intention of returning to Germany. Instead, Verney helped Vogt get a research fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge, for a year, which was then extended for 3 years.
An obituary for naturalist Walter John Breckenridge is presented. Breckenridge was conservation giant in Minnesota and throughout Midwest, spreading his message through slide shows, motion pictures ...and many others.
This paper analyses the sustainability of Portuguese public finances, making use of a long dataset with more than a full century of observations. The use of such a long dataset is appropriate because ...both the unit root and co-integration tests on which the sustainability testing procedure is based require a long period of data. We find considerable evidence in favor of sustainability for the 1903-2003 period which is not, however, maintained for the more recent 1975-2003 period, as it is characterized by the largest GDP deficit ratios of our sample. This latter period appears to signal a shift to an unsustainable path in Portuguese fiscal policy. Hence, our results suggest that fiscal consolidation efforts must, in fact, be continued in Portugal. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
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